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Li Zhao; Xinchen Yang; Xinyi Yu; Jiaxin Zheng; Haiying Mao; Genyue Fu; Fang Fang; Kang Lee – Review of Educational Research, 2025
This preregistered meta-analysis investigated whether cultural values moderate the relations between students' achievement orientations and their tendency to cheat. We identified 80 studies on the associations between performance/learning orientations and academic cheating in 27 countries with 40,867 participants. Performance orientation…
Descriptors: Cheating, Academic Achievement, Cultural Influences, Values
Mulisa, Feyisa; Ebessa, Asrat Dereb – Cogent Education, 2021
There has been a growing interest in determining whether dishonesty in college can be transferred to the professional workplace. There have been few, yet scarce, studies that focused on the link between college and workplace dishonesty. This review aims to bring into the limelight evidence-based consistency of the links between college and…
Descriptors: Ethics, College Students, Student Behavior, Employees
Jennifer Riad – Journal of Research Initiatives, 2023
Throughout the history of academics, cheating in various forms has coincided, evolving alongside university advancements. This paper explores the concept of academic dishonesty as a critical issue facing higher education in a modern context, establishes the cause of the problem, and concludes with potential solutions. The idea of academic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Cheating, Plagiarism
Auger, Giselle A.; Waters, Richard D. – Journalism and Mass Communication Educator, 2020
Research has shown that professionals who act unethically in the workplace likely have an academic background with academic dishonesty violations. Given that understanding and teaching academic honesty behaviors are critical to best prepare future media professionals, this research examines discussions of academic dishonesty in "Journalism…
Descriptors: Journalism Education, Periodicals, Cheating, Content Analysis
Muammer Maral – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
This research aimed to identify patterns, intellectual structure, contributions, social interactions, gaps, and future research directions in the field of academic integrity (AI). A bibliometric analysis was conducted with 1406 publications covering the period 1966-2023. The results indicate that there has been significant growth in AI literature…
Descriptors: Integrity, Educational History, Cheating, Plagiarism
Tamás Keller; Hubert János Kiss – Journal of Early Adolescence, 2025
A growing body of experimental literature investigates how student-level background characteristics are associated with dishonest behavior in early adolescence. However, results from prior studies are mixed. To revisit earlier findings, we conducted a comprehensive literature review and executed two consecutive, large-scale, incentivized surveys…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Literature Reviews, Student Surveys, Elementary School Students
Shashi Nallaya; Sheridan Gentili; Scott Weeks; Katherine Baldock – Issues in Educational Research, 2024
Various factors such as regulatory body mandates, graduate employability challenges, decreasing student engagement and increasing academic misconduct in higher education have motivated universities to explore alternative approaches to teach and assess. Accordingly, the oral assessment has taken precedence in many contexts as a popular form of…
Descriptors: Test Validity, Test Reliability, Cheating, Higher Education
Albluwi, Ibrahim – ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2020
This article is a systematic review of work in the computing education literature on plagiarism. The goal of the review is to summarize the main results found in the literature and highlight areas that need further work. Despite the the large body of work on plagiarism, no systematic reviews have been published so far. The reviewed papers were…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Ethics, Student Behavior, Student Attitudes
Zeenath Reza Khan – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2024
The global surge in academic misconduct during the COVID-19 pandemic, exacerbated by remote teaching and online assessment, necessitates a comprehensive understanding of the multidimensional aspects and stakeholders' perspectives associated with this issue. This paper addresses the prevalent use of answer-providing sites and other types of…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Stakeholders, Integrity
Biddix, J. Patrick – Journal of College Student Development, 2016
This review of research synthesizes more than a decade of published studies on problems associated with fraternity membership beyond alcohol misuse. Topics include sex-related issues, drug use, hazing, and other issues such as gambling, academic dishonesty, campus civility, and fake identification use. Recommendations suggest the need for a role…
Descriptors: Literature Reviews, Alcohol Abuse, Fraternities, Behavior Problems
Roxas, Adela S.; Ridinger, Lynn L. – Higher Education Politics & Economics, 2016
Research on the association between coaching behaviors and student-athlete well-being has revealed significant relationships among coaching behaviors and a range of outcomes including anxiety, burnout, self-confidence, college choice satisfaction, and willingness to cheat to win. Findings from multiple studies suggested the need for improvements…
Descriptors: Athletic Coaches, Well Being, Anxiety, Burnout
Ransome, Josie; Newton, Philip M. – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
A substantial proportion of university students report committing plagiarism and related forms of misconduct. An academic integrity-focused approach to addressing plagiarism emphasises the promotion of positive values alongside education of staff and students about good, and bad, practice in writing, studying and assessment design. The concept was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, College Students, Cheating
Meng, Chan Ling; Othman, Jamilah; D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence; Omar, Zoharah – International Education Studies, 2014
This conceptual paper studies the application of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TBP) in academic dishonesty with the mediating variable of ethical ideologies. The study reviews literature on the Theory of Planned Behavior and past studies pertaining to academic dishonesty. The paper analyses the relationship of the variables of TPB on academic…
Descriptors: Ethics, Decision Making, Cheating, Behavior Theories
Bengtsson, Lars – Education Sciences, 2019
This work describes a systematic review of the research on take-home exams in tertiary education. It was found that there is some disagreement in the community about the virtues of take-home exams but also a lot of agreement. It is concluded that take-home exams may be the preferred choice of assessment method on the higher taxonomy levels because…
Descriptors: Testing Problems, Cheating, Thinking Skills, Supervision
Moten, James, Jr.; Fitterer, Alex; Brazier, Elise; Leonard, Jonathan; Brown, Avis – Electronic Journal of e-Learning, 2013
Academic dishonesty in the online cheating environment of distance education learning has gained traction in the past decade. By a few simple keystrokes, students' can find a wide array of online services for hire to write research papers, complete homework assignments, or enroll on behalf of the student on record to take the entire online…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Cheating, Online Courses, Electronic Learning

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