Undergraduates (11,497) at two mid size universities completed a self-administered 100 item online survey including items related to deception in one's romantic relationships. Over two thirds (69%) reported that they had lied, 44% reported that they had cheated and 16% reported that they had misrepresented their "body count" (number of…

Data from published studies is used to recover information about the sample mean self-reported number of times cheated by college students. The sample means were estimated by fitting distributions to the reported data. The few estimated sample means thus recovered were roughly 2 or less.

Nigeria's National Policy on Education stresses functional knowledge and skills, and development of character and values. But there is a growing gap between policy and practice. This is apparent in the unethical behaviour of many students, and sometimes staff, as manifested in their involvement in secret cults, undisciplined conduct, and…

The purpose of the research was quadrupled. It investigated the prevalence of anti-social behaviours in campuses of Nigerian universities. Several student fitness aspirants and recreationists perceived examination malpractices (85%), stealing (83%), armed robbery (81%), prostitution (82%), drunkenness (80%), smoking (79%), hard drug consumption…

Dishonest behavior at the college level, particularly by business students, is an ethical issue of concern to the academic and business communities. Corporate scandals and federal legislation have brought additional attention to the ethical behavior of business leaders and the role of higher education in training the leaders of tomorrow. If…

Academic dishonesty is an issue of concern for teachers, students, and institutions of higher education. Because students and faculty do not interact directly in web-based classes, it is often perceived that cheating will be more abundant in these classes. Using data from a survey administered to students who had an online course during the 2001…

Outlines methods to prevent cheating in colleges by: (1) defining the problem; (2) describing physical arrangements of testing situations; and (3) stressing the importance of detection and retributions for academic dishonesty. The individual faculty member should control cheating. A "cheating" table provides suggestions for detecting and…

Measures college students' willingness to accept an unethical educational proposition. Results suggest a cumulative effect between exposure to educational commercialization and the willingness to accept unethical behavior. Interesting differences between student and faculty expectations of cheating and actual behavior were observed. Future…

This investigation focused on the interrelationships among the frequency of cheating behaviors, impulsiveness, personal efficacy, and academic motivation. Sixty-one undergraduate students from a small private Catholic college in the Northeast completed the Academic Integrity Scale, subscales from Kurtines' (1978) Autonomy and Paulus' (1983)…