Many institutions of higher education within the United States and throughout the world encounter one of the largest nemeses they have on their campus--student cheating and plagiarism. Almost all colleges and universities have some type of honor code, but some form of student dishonesty continually occurs. The purpose of this qualitative research…

Over the past fifty years, cheating among high school students increased substantially and affected the morale of students (Simha, Armstrong, & Albert, 2012). According to a nationally representative survey of 36,000 U.S. adolescents, some 60% of high school students confessed to cheating on a test during the previous school year, and that the…

The purpose of the current basic qualitative study was to understand unethical behaviors from the perspective of the nurse educators' experiences with unethical behaviors, i.e., plagiarism, cheating on exams and assignments, misrepresentation, and incivility. Twelve female participants answered a series of interview questions that specifically…

This Dissertation in Practice (DIP) explored cultural perceptions related to academic honesty in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The purpose of this case study was to better understand the psychological, moral, and ethical underpinnings of academic honesty as they relate to an all-male, Arab high school in the UAE. The study utilized a case study…

Academic and workplace dishonesty have become a growing and costly problem within society. While academic misconduct is nothing new, over the past 40 years the problem appears to be getting worse. The literature indicated a steady increase in academic cheating rates over the past four decades from 50% to as much as 75%. Compounding this problem…

This dissertation explores the growing epidemic of academic dishonesty in the United States in order to propose an Aristotelian-inspired model for developing moral character to curtail this epidemic. The task is laid out in four parts. Chapter one responds to the problem of "akrasia," adopting a modified version of Devin Henry's…

This mixed methods study explored whether a relationship existed between moral development and dishonest academic behaviors in law students. The quantitative portion of the study utilized a survey adapted from James Rest's Defining Issues Test and Donald McCabe's Academic Integrity Survey. Law students were solicited by email from two public…