Relationship between Self-Regulated Learning and Muraqabah with Academic Dishonesty of Muslim Graduate Students

Abstract

Academic dishonesty has become a major problem in education to date. This study examines the academic dishonesty on Muslim graduate students. There are two kinds of factors encouraging graduate students to cheat: 1) the factors that can be controlled by students, such as lack of preparation before exams, fatigue, or lack of time to learn; 2) the factors that are beyond the students' control, such as health problems, tasks or exams that are too difficult, or friends' cheating. In self-regulated learning, students manage their learning effectively. Thus, these controllable factors of academic dishonesty are expected to be overcame by student's improving self-regulated learning. Meanwhile, muraqabah, defined as awareness of God's supervision, is predicted to help students in overcoming the uncontrollable factors of academic dishonesty. This study uses quantitative approach. The participants were Muslim graduate students. Four instruments were used in this study: self-regulated learning questionnaire, muraqabah questionnaire, academic dishonesty questionnaire, and social desirability scale. The data was analyzed using descriptive statistics and partial correlation analysis technique. The result of this study determines that there is a significant negative correlation between self-regulated learning and academic dishonesty of Muslim graduate students. There is no significant correlation between muraqabah and academic dishonesty.