Proposed two new indices to detect answer copying on a multiple choice test and conducted a simulation study to investigate the usefulness of both indexes. Discusses conditions under which the proposed indexes can be useful. (SLD)

Examined reactions of 776 students to witnessing cheating, their attitudes toward the offending student, and their attitudes toward academic dishonesty in general. Findings suggest that the creation of academic dishonesty code requiring students to report instances of academic dishonesty apparently did not work. Students preferred to handle…

A teacher brings you a paper he suspects is not the student's own work, and a google search confirms it was copied right off a web page. Intellectual honesty issues are impossible to duck in the library, but plagiarism lessons are often met with yawns and eye rolls from students.

The ways in which universities and individual academics attempt to deter and respond to student plagiarism may be based on untested assumptions about particular or primary reasons for this behaviour. Using a series of group interviews, this qualitative study gathered the views of 56 Australian university students on the possible reasons for…

Graduate and professional school students face a variety of academic integrity issues and are sometimes academically dishonest. The author surveys the literature of the last decade on graduate student academic integrity, including plagiarism, cheating, falsification, and authorship conflicts, focusing on empirical studies in multiple disciplines,…

This article describes an incident involving twelve teachers at Anhui Haozhou Normal Junior College who used purchased dissertations to apply for professional titles over three consecutive years. Academic corruption is not merely today's problem, and the academic corruption at the institutions of higher learning that the author discloses in this…

Reports of gross misconduct like plagiarism and the falsification and fabrication of data in the hallowed halls of academe and research laboratories are becoming increasingly common in the US. Researchers suggest that the higher education institutions need to become more involved than they have been on educating graduate students about ethical…

The production and operations management class offered at California State University, Fresno underwent a transformation from being a four-unit, face-to-face course to a hybrid course. This hybrid course, which is required for all students in the Craig School of Business, includes two units of face-to-face instruction each week, with some coverage…

To better understand the dynamics of online student test taking, including the likelihood of cheating by large numbers of students, we examined test-taking patterns and outcomes of weekly online quizzes in two large undergraduate biology lecture courses. Students taking a quiz late in a 1-3-day quiz access period performed 10-15% worse on quizzes…

Based upon a pilot study of the leading online plagiarism detection service, this article examines the views of faculty and students as the main stakeholders in the controversy over online plagiarism detection. Rather than give advice outside of a specific institutional context, this study offers an understanding of the reasoning that informs the…

The author's PhD training and 25 years of teaching experience did not prepare her for dealing with widespread cheating. Is it better to confront cheaters personally, or just fix the evaluation system and move on? How can the process of failing cheaters be handled in a way that is fair to all? Finally, can a potentially disastrous cheating incident…

Academic dishonestly appears to be a perennial problem associated with higher education. The analysis presented in this paper is a composite of the results of two questionnaires administered to students at a variety of institutions--large state schools, medium state schools, large private schools, small private schools, as well as several two-year…

The phenomenon of cheating exists at every level of education, yet empirical research and theorizing about cheating behavior are scanty and inconclusive. This study used a questionnaire format to procure information relative to cheating at a small southwestern university. Age, sex, class standing, religion, and college were chosen as variables to…

In a situation where cheating increases, the students most apt to become cheaters are those seated adjacent to identified cheaters. In all cases, cheaters tend to voluntarily seat themselves adjacent to one another rather than seating themselves adjacent to noncheaters. The voluntary isolation appears to persist even as cheating increases or…