The Theory of Planned Behaviour: Will Faculty Confront Students Who Cheat?

摘要

Dealing with students who cheat can be one of the most stressful interactions that faculty encounter. This study focused on faculty responses to academic integrity violations and utilized the Theory of Planned Behaviour model to predict the target behaviour of whether faculty would speak face-to-face with a student suspected of cheating. After an elicitation phase to determine modal salient beliefs, a questionnaire was developed to measure the model's variables. The respondent database contained 206 tenured and non-tenured faculty from two large comprehensive universities. A stepwise multiple regression demonstrated the usefulness of the Theory of Planned Behaviour. Overall the model explained 43 % of the variance in predicting faculty members' intention to speak face-to-face with a student suspected of cheating. The most significant contribution was made by subjective norms (β=0.39), followed by attitude (β=O34), and perceived behavioural control (β=0.24).