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Lisa Marie Chervenak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
While instances of cut and paste plagiarism among undergraduate college students has decreased over the past several years, a new form of plagiarism has emerged that often goes undetected by these software systems. Paraphrasing websites allow users to enter information from a source, which the website will then reword, giving the appearance of an…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, For Profit Colleges, Plagiarism, Writing (Composition)
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Williams, Kevin M.; Nathanson, Craig; Paulhus, Delroy L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2010
Despite much research, skepticism remains over the possibility of profiling scholastic cheaters. However, several relevant predictor variables and newer diagnostic tools have been overlooked. We remedy this deficit with a series of three studies. Study 1 was a large-scale survey of a broad range of personality predictors of self-reported cheating.…
Descriptors: Cheating, Academic Achievement, Predictor Variables, Personality Traits
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Dawkins, Russell L. – College Student Journal, 2004
This exploratory study examines self-reported acts of academic dishonesty for a sample of 858 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students on a small college campus (8,350 students). The study raises awareness to the occurrences, and challenges of academic dishonesty at small-sized institutions, somewhat overlooked in empirical research.…
Descriptors: Small Colleges, Cheating, College Students, Student Characteristics