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Why Students "Do Not" Engage in Contract Cheating: A Closer Look
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Rundle, Kiata; Curtis, Guy J.; Clare, Joseph – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2023
Contract cheating -- students outsourcing assignments to ghost-writers and submitting it as their own -- is an issue facing tertiary education institutions globally. Approximately 3% to 11% of higher education students may engage on contract cheating. Understanding why nearly 90% of students do "not" engage in contract cheating is as…
Descriptors: College Students, Cheating, Outsourcing, Psychological Patterns
Academic Dishonesty among Hong Kong Secondary School Students: Application of Theory of Planned Behaviour
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Kam, Chester Chun Seng; Hue, Ming Tak; Cheung, Hoi Yan – Educational Psychology, 2018
The theory of planned behaviour was used to examine academic dishonesty among secondary school students in Hong Kong. Participants were 386 students in Forms 1-3 (Grades 7-9). Attitudes toward cheating, perceived behavioural control, and moral obligation were positively related to the intention to cheat, but only the subjective norm against…
Descriptors: Cheating, Behavior Problems, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students
Why Do College Students Cheat? A Structural Equation Modeling Validation of the Theory of Planned Behavior
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AL-Dossary, Saeed Abdullah – International Education Studies, 2017
Cheating on tests is a serious problem in education. The purpose of this study was to test the efficacy of a modified form of the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to predict cheating behavior among a sample of Saudi university students. This study also sought to test the influence of cheating in high school on cheating in college within the…
Descriptors: Cheating, Student Behavior, Structural Equation Models, Behavior Theories
What Schools Can Do to Fight Cheating
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Romanowski, Michael H. – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
School board members, administrators, and parents like to think of children as hard working and honest in their academic endeavors. According to recent surveys, that's a misperception. Rutgers Management Education Center reports 75% of the 4,500 high school students surveyed engaged in serious cheating and 88% judged cheating to be "common" among…
Descriptors: School Culture, Cheating, High School Students, Ethics
School Interventions for Dishonest Behavior.
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Miller, Gloria – Special Services in the Schools, 1987
Issues in effective diagnosis of such dishonest behavior as cheating, lying, and nonconfrontative stealing are discussed. Published intervention approaches for dishonest behavior are reviewed, including negative sanctions, direct appeals to morality, public affirmation, covert sensitization, timeout, reinforcement contingency procedures, and…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Problems, Cheating, Contingency Management
Differences Between Women and Men Regarding Decisions To Commit Test Cheating.
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Tibbetts, Stephen G. – Research in Higher Education, 1999
A scenario-based survey of 598 university students concerning test cheating found significant gender differences on measures of self-control, shame, perceived external sanctions, grades, and cheating intentions. Morals and grades were greater predictors in women's cheating intentions, while men were more affected by prior cheating and perceived…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Cheating, College Students, Grades (Scholastic)