The Influence of Self-Regulated Learning, Goal Orientation, and Demographic Variables on Jakarta 41 States Vocational High School Students’ Cheating Behavior

—Education is an empowerment process for building the life of the nation. The learning process becomes less healthy when the level of cheating behavior is high. In Indonesia, the behavior is displayed by people in all level of educations, from elementary to the highest educational institutions. Many people consider it reasonable, even though they know that cheating is a kind of corruption. Cheating must be minimized by knowing and anticipating the causes, including selfregulated learning, goal orientation, and demographic variables. Taking the causes of cheating into consideration, this study is designated to determine the effect of self-regulated learning (the cognitive strategy use and self-regulation), goal orientation (mastery-approach, mastery-avoidance, and performance-approach goal orientation), and demographic variables (gender and educational stage) on cheating behavior. The samples were drawn from 220 students of Jakarta 41 States Vocational High School consisting of 93 male and 127 female students in which the 113 of them were from 10th grade the rest were from the 11th grade. The samples were drawn using accidental sampling technique. The hypothesis is tested using multiple regression analysis and SPSS v.21.0 software. The results showed significant influence of all variables on cheating behavior. The proportion of variance of the model is 10.2%. Meanwhile, the rest is influenced by other factors exclusive of this study. In addition, correlation coefficient between cheating behavior each variable of the study showed self-regulated learning variable namely self-regulation plays a significant role on cheating behavior. Meanwhile, variable of selfregulated learning (cognitive strategy use), goal orientation (mastery, performance-orientation, performance-avoidance goal orientation) and demographic variables (gender and educational stage) are not significantly corelated with cheating behavior.