This article shares the findings of a study investigating institutional policy definitions of plagiarism at twenty English-speaking Canadian universities. The types of primary sources consulted for this study included: (1) university academic calendars for 2016-2017, (2) institutional policies on academic misconduct, and (3) student academic codes…

This review examines "The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education" (TOJDE) over a ten years period from 2000-2010. The study provides an opportunity to examine publishing activities such as number of published articles, authors, research topics and methods, and analyses of TOJDE's website such as time users stay on site and user…

As a field of study, international business (IB) has evolved with accelerated tempo in the last four decades. The subject has brought with it an increasing plethora of textbooks. We analyze the contents of major textbooks, both classic and new, to find the extent to which these textbooks cover the various components of the common body of knowledge…

This Report Card presents an overview of inequalities in child well-being in 41 countries of the European Union (EU) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). It focuses on 'bottom-end inequality' -- the gap between children at the bottom and those in the middle -- and addresses the question 'how far behind are…

An attempt was made to see what effect implementation of ethical guidelines would have on cognitive and affective data collected in a classroom setting. A total of 126 graduate and 90 undergraduate male and female subjects were assigned randomly to six treatment groups. The six groups were provided different levels of information on a continuum…

This research attempts to place into an historical and philosophical perspective the major positions taken by psychologists prescribing how ethical questions "should" be answered and reports two experimental investigations of some of the situational and individual-difference factors that influence how individuals "do" make ethical judgments.…

Three questions concerning the rules of conduct of a counseling service which employs a professional counsellor were examined: (a) are counsellors institutional or client-based agents, (b) how confidential should client-counsellor relationships be, and (c) how should clients be referred to the counsellor? (Editor/RK)

Part Two B of a three-part study examined how 40 universities with baccalaureate programs in aviation management include ethics education in the curricula. Analysis of responses suggests that there is strong support for ethics instruction and that active department head involvement leads to higher levels of planned ethics inclusion. (JOW)

Compares codes of professional ethics of several professional associations in light of rapidly changing technology. Explores the relation between academic honesty and ethical practice and provides a summary of approaches to teaching ethics. (Contains 34 references.) (JOW)

Describes a study that examined generally accepted ethical norms in library and information science journals regarding practices such as the multiple publication of the same article, plagiarism, and cronyism. The responses of editors to action scenarios focused on ethical behavior are discussed and conclusions are drawn about the ethical…

Neither content of instructions nor personality characteristics are effective independently, but rather they combine to produce a rather clear-cut joint effect, with the dominant rather than the warm person's instruction being followed. (Author)

An investigation was carried out to ascertain how 700 children aged seven to 15 (half boys and half girls), acquired the ability to define certain moral concepts, how they decided on whether an action was right or wrong, and what influenced the acquisitional process. (Author)

Findings of this experiment demonstrate the interdependence of reasoning and action in the development of morality. (Authors)

Presents early evidence from a longitudinal study suggesting that many agricultural college students lack opinions on soil and water conservation issues. Data also suggest encounters with conservation issues in the classroom and elsewhere encourage students, to learn about and form opinions on conservation. (27 references) (Author/MCO)

Reports the results of a survey of scholars in major U.S. research universities that was conducted to explore the normative bases of acknowledgment behavior and its role in the scholarly communication process. Questions regarding expectations, etiquette, ethics, equity, and evaluation are addressed, and a copy of the survey is appended. (Contains…