Abstract:Desonestidade acadêmica nos programas de pós-graduação stricto sensu em Ciências Contábeis [recurso eletrônico] / Regina Cardoso Fróes. -2020.
“…In higher education, fraudulent practices are synonymous: deceiving and falsifying information to circumvent mechanisms for evaluating individual and collective production (Fróes, & Silva, 2021). According to the literature, there are several types of fraudulent practices in the academic world, such as the electronic commerce of works, where monographs are sold and purchased; plagiarism, which involves copying ideas without giving proper credit to the author; collaboration in activities designed to be developed individually; taking credit or profit from work done by others; falsification of sentences and paragraphs by authors of books and/or articles; and cheating in tests, which can be committed with or without the permission of other colleagues (Fróes, & Silva, 2021).…”
This study seeks to identify, with the support of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), individual behavioral beliefs that determine academic dishonesty behaviors. Qualitative research was conducted with Brazilian students and revealed their perceptions on academic dishonesty behaviors. According to the results, students perceive that fraud can lead to a better academic performance and less effort or time spent on academic tasks, but it can also result in punishment and embarrassment when it’s perceived by faculty, as well as impair learning and concerns about their future professional performance. The research contributes to the construction of an instrument for collecting and measuring beliefs, which can be considered as a relevant contribution to the literature and to understanding fraudulent behaviors.
“…In higher education, fraudulent practices are synonymous: deceiving and falsifying information to circumvent mechanisms for evaluating individual and collective production (Fróes, & Silva, 2021). According to the literature, there are several types of fraudulent practices in the academic world, such as the electronic commerce of works, where monographs are sold and purchased; plagiarism, which involves copying ideas without giving proper credit to the author; collaboration in activities designed to be developed individually; taking credit or profit from work done by others; falsification of sentences and paragraphs by authors of books and/or articles; and cheating in tests, which can be committed with or without the permission of other colleagues (Fróes, & Silva, 2021).…”
This study seeks to identify, with the support of the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB), individual behavioral beliefs that determine academic dishonesty behaviors. Qualitative research was conducted with Brazilian students and revealed their perceptions on academic dishonesty behaviors. According to the results, students perceive that fraud can lead to a better academic performance and less effort or time spent on academic tasks, but it can also result in punishment and embarrassment when it’s perceived by faculty, as well as impair learning and concerns about their future professional performance. The research contributes to the construction of an instrument for collecting and measuring beliefs, which can be considered as a relevant contribution to the literature and to understanding fraudulent behaviors.
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