Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty
The purpose of this study was to reveal data about cheating behaviours in Slovenian upper secondary schools, to raise awareness and to lower tolerance for such behaviour. To acquire information about demographics, cheating behaviour, and opinions on such behaviour, we compiled a questionnaire that t...
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| author | Andrej Šorgo Marija Vavdi Urška Cigler Marko Kralj |
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| description | The purpose of this study was to reveal data about cheating behaviours in Slovenian upper secondary schools, to raise awareness and to lower tolerance for such behaviour. To acquire information about demographics, cheating behaviour, and opinions on such behaviour, we compiled a questionnaire that targeted a university population of first-year students
(N=323). From the results, it was revealed that cheating is a way of life in Slovenian schools, and almost all students at least occasionally indulge in some academic misbehaviour. It seems that a culture tolerant or even supportive of such behaviour has been established among students, parents and teachers, all working together to “help” students climb the ladder of success. The open question is whether all kinds of cheating are even recognized as such. Cheating is most common in homework, but at the other end, even systems such as external exams are not immune to fraud. At the moment, classic methods of cheating dominate. Differences between characters (e.g. gender) and educational institutions in most cases are non-existent or small, a finding that could aid in establishing measures to prevent cheating inside schools as institutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-80107d4ab6c842b3909f02195a18c2022022-12-22T01:24:29ZengUniversity of LjubljanaCenter for Educational Policy Studies Journal1855-97192232-26472015-12-0154Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic DishonestyAndrej ŠorgoMarija VavdiUrška CiglerMarko KraljThe purpose of this study was to reveal data about cheating behaviours in Slovenian upper secondary schools, to raise awareness and to lower tolerance for such behaviour. To acquire information about demographics, cheating behaviour, and opinions on such behaviour, we compiled a questionnaire that targeted a university population of first-year students (N=323). From the results, it was revealed that cheating is a way of life in Slovenian schools, and almost all students at least occasionally indulge in some academic misbehaviour. It seems that a culture tolerant or even supportive of such behaviour has been established among students, parents and teachers, all working together to “help” students climb the ladder of success. The open question is whether all kinds of cheating are even recognized as such. Cheating is most common in homework, but at the other end, even systems such as external exams are not immune to fraud. At the moment, classic methods of cheating dominate. Differences between characters (e.g. gender) and educational institutions in most cases are non-existent or small, a finding that could aid in establishing measures to prevent cheating inside schools as institutions.https://ojs.cepsj.si/index.php/cepsj/article/view/117cheatingacademic dishonestysecondary school |
| spellingShingle | Andrej Šorgo Marija Vavdi Urška Cigler Marko Kralj Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal cheating academic dishonesty secondary school |
| title | Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty |
| title_full | Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty |
| title_fullStr | Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty |
| title_short | Opportunity Makes the Cheater: High School Students and Academic Dishonesty |
| title_sort | opportunity makes the cheater high school students and academic dishonesty |
| topic | cheating academic dishonesty secondary school |
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