Reasons for academic dishonesty in a traditional and a partially online environment: a survey

Abstract

The paper presents a study on the reasons for the academic dishonesty in live (traditional) and partially online courses. The study was conducted at the Department of Informatics, University of Rijeka over a sample of 114 undergraduate and graduate students. The main contributions of this paper are: a) the identification of several main reasons why students cheat in both types of courses, and b) the identification of the usual penalties for cheating in both learning environments.