The Academic Ethics of Graduate Business Students: A Survey

Brown, Bob S.

doi:10.1080/08832323.1995.10117742

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“…One treats word for word plagiarism regardless of degree in a similar manner as other instances of "academic dishonesty" such as copying on exams or buying papers from online paper mills (Brown 1994;Brown 1996;Carpenter, Harding, Finelli, Montgomery, & Passow 2006;McCabe 1997). Another perspective views it as a continuum of compositional strategies utilized by both novice and expert writers originating from a complex of reasons, few of which may have anything to do with deception or dishonesty.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Textual Appropriation in Engineering Master’s Theses: A Preliminary Study

Eckel

2010

Sci Eng Ethics

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In the thesis literature review, an engineering graduate student is expected to place original research in the context of previous work by other researchers. However, for some students, particularly those for whom English is a second language, the literature review may be a mixture of original writing and verbatim source text appropriated without quotations. Such problematic use of source material leaves students vulnerable to an accusation of plagiarism, which carries severe consequences. Is such textual appropriation common in engineering master's writing? Furthermore, what, if anything, can be concluded when two texts have been found to have textual material in common? Do existing definitions of plagiarism provide a sufficient framework for determining if an instance of copying is transgressive or not? In a preliminary attempt to answer these questions, text strings from a random sample of 100 engineering master's theses from the ProQuest Dissertations and Theses database were searched for appropriated verbatim source text using the Google search engine. The results suggest that textual borrowing may indeed be a common feature of the master's engineering literature review, raising questions about the ability of graduate students to synthesize the literature. The study also illustrates the difficulties of making a determination of plagiarism based on simple textual similarity. A context-specific approach is recommended when dealing with any instance of apparent copying.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Textual Appropriation in Engineering Master’s Theses: A Preliminary Study

Eckel

2010

Sci Eng Ethics

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“…Not only this, but also, Brown (1995) reported that "80% of business students admitted to engaging in at least one of 15 unethical academic practices in their graduate career". Likewise, Wajda-Johnston et al (2001) identified up to 55.1% of graduate students who admitted to have cheated during their graduate student career.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Study of Proctors’ Involvement in National Examination Cheating: the Case of “Collège Privé MBF d’Abobo” Exam Center

Ettien

2018

Journal of Education and e-Learning Research

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This research aimed at trying to understand why proctors, whose role and duty is normally to watch over candidates in order to prevent them from cheating, can suddenly become candidates' protectors against official exam supervisors. Our investigations revealed that most secondary school teachers refuse to partake in exam proctoring because the government refuses to pay for it. Consequently most of those who eagerly accept to work for free are mostly secretaries, bookkeepers, primary school teachers, clerks etc. with terrible financial conditions. Being unable to partake in the grading of exam copies that would be their reward, they felt not to have another choice but accepting candidates' financial offers and close their eyes on their cheating. For us, every work deserves payment, therefore, we recommended the government to reconsider the exam proctoring conditions in order to re-motivate secondary school teachers.

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“…McCabe & Trevino (1993) found that over 67% of students confessed to cheating at least once. While Brown (1995) reported over 80% of students in his sample admitted to committing at least one out of 15 acts of academic dishonesty. The desire to get a good grade is the most frequent reason cited for unethical behaviour (Baird, 1980;Meade, 1992;and Nuss, 1984).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Researchers have included a wide variety of practices in their studies and have used different measuring scales, making comparison across studies in specific practices difficult (Brown, 1995). The present study attempts therefore to develop an examination misconduct scale and investigate the extent to which such a measure is associated with established ethical measures like perception of business ethics (Lin, 1999); ethical value assessment (Peppas & Peppas, 2000); and the Hofstede's four dimensions cultural-value measures (Hofstede, 1980).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Academic cheating behaviour is a prominent problem and it often goes unreported by faculty/professors (Rawwas & Isakson, 2000). Brown (1995; and Rawwas & Isakson (2000) provide a detailed account of studies on students' ethical conduct. None of these studies attempted to link academic cheating behaviour with a business ethics measure, which the present study does.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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