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Academic dishonesty is a problem that encounters in colleges and universities for many years. This study is to examine participants’ attitudes toward cheating and the effects of academic motivation, self-efficacy, and academic integrity on cheating behaviors. The present study included 34 students and randomly assigned 3 groups, which have different rewards, asked them finish 3 solvable puzzles and 3 impossible puzzles. The results include a significant negative correlation between participants’ self-reports of cheating behaviors and how dishonest they rated those behaviors, and there is a significant difference for self-efficacy levels. It concluded that the cheaters may feel like cheating was an acceptable tactic for success. The limitation is that the number of participants is small, and the author suggests that future research should closer examination of the difference in academic motivations of people who cheat and these who do not.
Academic dishonesty is a problem that encounters in colleges and universities for many years. This study is to examine participants’ attitudes toward cheating and the effects of academic motivation, self-efficacy, and academic integrity on cheating behaviors. The present study included 34 students and randomly assigned 3 groups, which have different rewards, asked them finish 3 solvable puzzles and 3 impossible puzzles. The results include a significant negative correlation between participants’ self-reports of cheating behaviors and how dishonest they rated those behaviors, and there is a significant difference for self-efficacy levels. It concluded that the cheaters may feel like cheating was an acceptable tactic for success. The limitation is that the number of participants is small, and the author suggests that future research should closer examination of the difference in academic motivations of people who cheat and these who do not.
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