Student preceptions of institutional and instructor based techniques for dealing with academic dishonesty

摘要

Research suggests that a large percentage of engineering students engage in some form of academic dishonesty. To investigate this very serious concern, the authors have undertaken a research project on the Perceptions and Attitudes toward Cheating among [f9]Engineering Students (P. A. C. E. S.). The premise of this research is that a combination of pressures, rather than [f2]malicious motivations, account for most student cheating. This paper will focus [f9]on a portion of the P.A.C.E.S. survey; [f2]student op in ions on what actions might prevent cheating. The authors examined data collected from approximately 350 engineering and pre-engineering undergraduate [f9]students at 5 institutions. In the survey, the students were [f2]presented with 23 institutional and instructor based actions and asked to comment on whether such actions would [f9]prevent them from cheating if they might have been inclined [f2]to cheat under other circumstances. Student responses to those actions along with subsequent statistical analysis are reported. Practical implementations of several student-identified techniques are then discussed.