In a study involving 550 students at 3 state universities, subjects read constructed passages concerning academic situations and judged whether cheating was involved. The impact of need, provocation, opportunity, and intentionality on student perceptions of the situations and the relationship of student grades, sex, and age were analyzed. (MSE)

Although the emphasis elsewhere is on learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder as possible causal factors for high dropout rates and associated student deficiencies in adult education (AE), a project explored an alternative etiology: intention deficit disorder. The hypothesis was that higher level "executive" regulatory…