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Qualitative Assessment of the Views of Academic Honesty among Freshmen in a Physiology-Based Program
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Direct linkEmily J. Ryan; Lori Sherlock; Edward Ryan; Miriam Leary – Advances in Physiology Education, 2025
Academic dishonesty is becoming more common among university students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM)-based programs. This is concerning because these students hold positions of responsibility in their professional careers. The purpose of this qualitative study was to examine if a student's academic standing and/or…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Ethics, Integrity, Cheating
Wei, Ming – Cogent Education, 2020
Access to higher education is essential to the achievement of social justice and economic development of a society. This study examines differences in the status quo of the equity of college admission examinations between China and the US by comparing news reports in the two countries. Interesting differences were revealed between the two media.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Equal Education, College Admission, Comparative Education
Download full textRizzo, Monica Ellen – Online Submission, 2012
Most American colleges and universities require standardized entrance exams when making admissions decisions. Scores on these exams help determine if, when and where students will be allowed to pursue higher education. These scores are also used to determine eligibility for merit based financial aid. This testing persists even though half of the…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Standardized Tests, Test Bias, Scores
O'Neill, Heather M.; Pfeiffer, Christian A. – Accounting Education, 2012
Researchers studying academic dishonesty in college often focus on demographic characteristics of cheaters and discuss changes in cheating trends over time. To predict cheating behaviour, some researchers examine the costs and benefits of academic cheating, while others view campus culture and the role which honour codes play in affecting…
Descriptors: Cheating, Ethics, Student Behavior, Undergraduate Students
Levine, Michael V.; Drasgow, Fritz – 1984
Some examinees' test-taking behavior may be so idiosyncratic that their scores are not comparable to the scores of more typical examinees. Appropriateness indices, which provide quantitative measures of response-pattern atypicality, can be viewed as statistics for testing a null hypothesis of normal test-taking behavior against an alternative…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Simulation, Estimation (Mathematics)
Jacob, Brian A.; Levitt, Steven D. – Education Next, 2004
This article describes the results of a three-year investigation into cheating by school personnel. The goals of this research were to measure the prevalence of cheating by teachers and administrators and to analyze the factors that predict cheating. Using data on test scores and student records from the Chicago Public Schools, the authors…
Descriptors: Testing Programs, Student Records, Statistical Analysis, School Personnel
