{"title":"How Common is Cheating in Online Exams and did it Increase During the COVID-19 Pandemic? A Systematic Review","authors":"P. Newton, Keioni Essex","doi":"10.21203/rs.3.rs-2187710/v1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2187710/v1","url":null,"abstract":"Academic misconduct is a threat to the validity and reliability of online examinations, and media reports suggest that misconduct spiked dramatically in higher education during the emergency shift to online exams caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study reviewed survey research to determine how common it is for university students to admit cheating in online exams, and how and why they do it. We also assessed whether these self-reports of cheating increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, along with an evaluation of the quality of the research evidence which addressed these questions. 25 samples were identified from 19 Studies, including 4672 participants, going back to 2012. Online exam cheating was self-reported by a substantial minority (44.7%) of students in total. Pre-COVID this was 29.9%, but during COVID cheating jumped to 54.7%, although these samples were more heterogenous. Individual cheating was more common than group cheating, and the most common reason students reported for cheating was simply that there was an opportunity to do so. Remote proctoring appeared to reduce the occurrence of cheating, although data were limited. However there were a number of methodological features which reduce confidence in the accuracy of all these findings. Most samples were collected using designs which makes it likely that online exam cheating is under-reported, for example using convenience sampling, a modest sample size and insufficient information to calculate response rate. No studies considered whether samples were representative of their population. Future approaches to online exams should consider how the basic validity of examinations can be maintained, considering the substantial numbers of students who appear to be willing to admit engaging in misconduct. Future research on academic misconduct would benefit from using large representative samples, guaranteeing participants anonymity.","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48929944","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Academic Dishonesty Within Higher Education in Nepal: An Examination of Students’ Exam Cheating","authors":"Som Nath Ghimire, Upaj Bhattarai, Raj Kumar Baral","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09486-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09486-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43062253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Wan Ping Ng, Khong Yun Pang, Pei Boon Ooi, C. Phan
{"title":"Perceived Research Misconduct Among the Pharmacy Academics and Students: A Cross-Sectional Survey Study in Malaysia","authors":"Wan Ping Ng, Khong Yun Pang, Pei Boon Ooi, C. Phan","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09487-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09487-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42052246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ethical Dilemmas in Cross-national Qualitative Research: A Reflection on Personal Experiences of Ethics from a Doctoral Research Project","authors":"Abukari Kwame, P. Petrucka","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09484-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09484-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47482154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. M. Zabed Ahmed, Md Roknuzzaman, Mohammad Sharif Ul Islam
{"title":"Knowledge, Attitude and Practice of University Teachers Regarding Plagiarism in Bangladesh","authors":"S. M. Zabed Ahmed, Md Roknuzzaman, Mohammad Sharif Ul Islam","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09483-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09483-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47915680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Guilt, Shame and Academic Misconduct","authors":"G. Curtis","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09481-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09481-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48714024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leadership in Ethical Practice: Students Learning Outcomes","authors":"Caitlyn Blaich, B. Kenny, Y. Jimenez","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09479-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10805-023-09479-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44526498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guilt, Shame and Academic Misconduct.","authors":"Guy J Curtis","doi":"10.1007/s10805-023-09480-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10805-023-09480-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Moral and self-conscious emotions like guilt and shame can function as internal negative experiences that punish or deter bad behaviour. Individual differences exist in people's tendency to experience guilt and shame. Being disposed to experience guilt and/or shame may predict students' expectations of their emotional reactions to engaging in immoral behaviour in the form of academic misconduct, and thus dissuade students from intending to engage in this behaviour. In this study, students' (<i>n</i> = 459) guilt and shame proneness, their expectations of feeling guilt and shame if they engaged in academic misconduct, and their intentions to engage in academic misconduct were measured. Three of the four facets of the guilt and shame proneness scale [GASP: Guilt-Negative-Behavior-Evaluation (NBE), Guilt-Repair, Shame-Negative-Self-Evaluation (NSE)] had significant negative correlations with academic misconduct intentions, and these relationships were mediated by anticipating shame and guilt related to engaging in academic misconduct. These results suggest that for some students expecting to experience negative moral emotions when engaging in academic misconduct may protect them from breaching ethical assessment rules.</p>","PeriodicalId":45961,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Academic Ethics","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10164613/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9708163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}