Academic dishonesty among nursing students: A descriptive study

Abstract

This descriptive and cross-sectional study aims to evaluate academic dishonesty among university nursing students in Turkey. The study's sample included 196 students. Two instruments were used for gathering data. The first instrument, a questionnaire, which included some socio-demographic variables (age, class, gender, education, family structure, parents' attitude and educators' attitude) formed the first part. The second part included the Academic Dishonesty Tendency Scale developed by Eminoğlu and Nartgün. The data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Kruskall Wallis, One-way Anova, t- test and Mann-Whitney U test. It was found that academic dishonesty was at medium-level (2.60-3.39) in nursing students.

Defining academic dishonesty behaviors according to pre-service teachers

“…Bu değişkenler akran davranışları (Çetin, 2007;McCabe et al, 2008;McCabe et al, 2006), akademik başarı (Olafson et al, 2013;Schmelkin et al, 2008), cinsiyet (Keçeci et al, 2011;Murdock & Anderman, 2006;Szabo & Underwood, 2004;Nonis & Swift, 2001) ve sınıf düzeyi/yaş (Keçeci et al, 2011;Jordan, 2001;Szabo & Underwood, 2004;Schmelkin et al, 2008;Brown & Weible, 2006;Nonis & Swift, 2001) Keçeci ve ark. (2011) yaptıkları araştırmalarda erkek öğrencilerin akademik usulsüzlük davranışları yapma eğilimlerinin kızlara göre daha yüksek olduklarını bulmuşlardır.…”

I Did Cheating, Because… : A Phenomenological Study

“…Bu kapsamda, cinsiyet (Ahmadi, 2012;Keçeci, Bulduk, Oruç ve Çelik, 2011;Lin ve Wen, 2007;Molnar ve Kletke, 2012;Whitley, Nelson ve Jones, 1999), genel not ortalaması (Iyer ve Eastman, 2006;Olafson, Schraw, Nadelson, Nadelson ve Kehrwald, 2013), sınıf düzeyi/yaş (Finn ve Frone, 2004;Lupton, Chapman ve Weiss, 2000;Szabo ve Underwood, 2004) ve öğrenim görülen program (Akbulut, Uysal, Odabaşı ve Kuzu, 2008b;Eret ve Ok, 2011) değişkenlerinin kopya çekme davranışları ile ilişkisi incelenmiştir. Ancak bu değişkenlerle kopya çekme arasındaki ilişkiyi inceleyen araştırmaların sonuçlarının tutarlı olmadığı görülmektedir.…”

The impact of a journal club intervention on student perceptions and behaviours regarding academic dishonesty

“…Academic dishonesty, in which students break established rules to engage in cheating behaviours [1] , is a growing problem in the United States [2][3][4][5][6] , and around the world [1] . College students have admitted to participating in a variety of unethical behaviours, including plagiarism, sharing work, obtaining test questions prior to exams, cheating on examinations [1][2][3][6][7][8][9] , falsifying research [1] , and threatening faculties who administer tests [1,3] .…”

“…College students have admitted to participating in a variety of unethical behaviours, including plagiarism, sharing work, obtaining test questions prior to exams, cheating on examinations [1][2][3][6][7][8][9] , falsifying research [1] , and threatening faculties who administer tests [1,3] .…”