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Academic dishonesty: understanding how undergraduate students think and act
| dc.contributor.author | Miranda, Sandra | |
| dc.contributor.author | Freire, Carla | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-03-09T15:55:17Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-03-09T15:55:17Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this investigation is to explore and understand the justifications given by students to the existence of dishonest behavior and understanding the extent to which the justifications given might influence denouncing and cheating behavior. 1277 undergraduate students of two Portuguese Public Universities were surveyed about their own cheating behavior, their propensity to denounce and the ―neutralizing attitudes‖. As predicted, ―neutralizing attitudes‖ was negatively correlated with self cheating behavior and positively correlated with reporting. The likelihood of copying is greater when the purpose is ―helping a friend‖, ―when the courses are more difficult‖, ―to get higher marks/grades‖, and because ―peers accept and tend to see copying practices as normal‖. Results support the notion that context emerges as a very important influence in the decision to cheating. The environment-peer pressure and the normalized attitudes towards academic dishonesty are the main influences on the propensity to cheating. | por |
| dc.identifier.citation | In Proceedings of the 15th ISATT 2011 - Back to the future: legacies, continuities and changes in educational policy, practice and research. Braga: Universidade do Minho; 2011. p. 1043-50. | por |
| dc.identifier.isbn | ISBN 978-989-8525-00-0 | por |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/1254 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | por |
| dc.subject | Desonestidade académica | por |
| dc.subject | Plágio | por |
| dc.title | Academic dishonesty: understanding how undergraduate students think and act | por |
| dc.type | conference object | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.conferencePlace | Braga | por |
| oaire.citation.title | Proceedings of the 15th ISATT 2011 - Back to the future: legacies, continuities and changes in educational policy, practice and research, Universidade do Minho, Braga. | por |
| person.familyName | Lopes Miranda | |
| person.givenName | Sandra Marisa | |
| person.identifier.ciencia-id | 681E-05F5-C887 | |
| person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0002-5544-5942 | |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | por |
| rcaap.type | conferenceObject | |
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