Academic Dishonesty: Prevalence, Determinants, Techniques, and Punishments

Davis, Stephen F.; Grover, Cathy A.; Becker, Angela H.; McGregor, Loretta N.

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“…We now have a situation where students consider dishonesty as a way of life "because everybody does it" 5,6 . With academic dishonesty morphing into sophisticated forms due to advancement in technology 7 it is plausible that we have not been having the complete picture of the monster.…”

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Hidden Facts and the Role of Truthfulness in Academic Dishonesty

Musau¹

2017

East. Cent. Afr. J. Surg.

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Background: Academic dishonesty is widespread across the world and studies done have largely relied on self-reporting to establish the extent and factors contributing to the practice. This demands of researchers to take at face value what people who may not be entirely truthful are saying. It is not a surprise, therefore, that varied interesting findings have been made in different studies. This paper delves into the complexity of determining the key components of academic dishonesty and brings into focus the role of truthfulness in understanding the elicited data. The objective of this study was to establish the role of truthfulness in understanding various components of academic dishonesty. Methods: This was a Cross sectional study using self-administered questionnaire. The Setting was the School of Medicine, Moi University, Eldoret -Kenya. The study subjects were 156 students in the clinical (4 th , 5 th and 6 th ) years of study. They anonymously filled a 20-item self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire captured the demographic data and the views of the students on various aspects of academic dishonesty ranked in a Likert scale of six levels starting with strongly agree to strongly disagree. Results: The overall level of truthfulness among these medical students was 55.8%. While more males had prior experience with academic dishonesty in secondary school and involvement at College, they were also more truthful than the females. The untruthful were 2.2 times as often involved in academic dishonesty as the truthful and were also less likely to report on their classmates. Conclusion: There are hidden facts in academic dishonesty that can only be revealed by subjecting gathered data to a scrutiny on how truthful the respondents are. Truthfulness is an inversely proportional surrogate predictor of academic dishonesty.

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Hidden Facts and the Role of Truthfulness in Academic Dishonesty

Musau¹

2017

East. Cent. Afr. J. Surg.

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“…Others have reported a difference between males and females with respect to academic cheating (e.g. Buckley et al, 2001;Ameen et al, 1996;Davis et al, 1992;Aiken, 1991). However, research results differed regarding which gender tends to cheat more than the other.…”

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Academic Cheating in Egyptian Universities: Is It All about Corporate Code of Ethics?

El-Metwally

2013

JESR

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“…In order to develop the thorough understanding of students plagiarism or the major reasons associated with it is fruitful to peruse the research of Steven and Stevens (1987), Davis et al (1992), Love and Simmons (1998) and Straw (2002). Genuine lack of understanding, lack of time, lack of confidence & poor time management tempts towards foul opportunities.…”

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Unplagiarized Writing- Understanding, Protecting and Staying Original for Students & Academia

Shrivastava

2017

Int J Soc Sci Mgt

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As we have advanced in technology, plagiarism has also emerged as an enormous problem. It is constantly threatening the purity and piousness of academics either for faculty researchers or for students. It is troubling academic world by its uncontrolled amplification in academics. The massive use of electronic gadgets has certainly triggered the cause. The easy accessibility has simplified copying for students than ever before making plagiarizing easy. This paper attempts to explore the issue of plagiarism from various dimensions especially students and academics.

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Academic Dishonesty: Prevalence, Determinants, Techniques, and Punishments

Abstract: Data from more than 6,000 students regarding the prevalence, causes, techniques, faculty and institutional responsibility, deterrent measures, and punishment dimensions of academic dishonesty are presented.

Cited by 386 publications

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Hidden Facts and the Role of Truthfulness in Academic Dishonesty

Hidden Facts and the Role of Truthfulness in Academic Dishonesty

Academic Cheating in Egyptian Universities: Is It All about Corporate Code of Ethics?

Unplagiarized Writing- Understanding, Protecting and Staying Original for Students & Academia

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