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Predicting Academic Dishonesty in Engineering College Students
Trevor Harding
Associate Professor Materials Engineering Department
California Polytechnic State University
The purpose of the proposed research is to predict academically dishonest behavior among engineering students using the Theory of Planned Behavior with a measure of moral judgment included. The sample will consist of senior-level and incoming freshmen students from engineering and humanities disciplines. This design permits the evaluation of the effect of both discipline and college experience on the measured determinants. The results of this study, once generalized and validated through additional research, could be used to develop targeted interventions of cheating that are more effective for engineering students. MORE >> BIOSKETCH >>
Critical Transitions: An Analysis Of Students' Perceptions, Attitudes and Behaviors Related to Academic Integrity During the Transition from High School to College
Ashley Mouberry
Community Director
Department of Housing and Residential
Education
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The purpose of this research is to examine if and how students' perceptions, attitudes and behaviors related to academic integrity change during the transition from high school to college. This longitudinal study will focus on examining the perceptions, attitudes and behaviors of members of the graduating senior class from three high schools in North Carolina. The research will be conducted in three parts, a pre-test administered prior to students' high school graduation, a post-test administered after completing one full semester of college or university studies, and a qualitative interview with those students who demonstrated significant differences in their pre and post test scores. It is the researcher's hope that this study will help others to have a better understanding of if, how, and why student's perceptions, attitudes and behaviors related to academic integrity change during the transition from high school to college. MORE >> BIOSKETCH >>>
Moral Slippage: How Do High School Students "Justify" Internet Plagiarism?
Dominic A. Sisti M.Be.
Visiting Research Associate
Center for
Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania &
Ph.D. Student, Philosophy Michigan State University
Moral Slippage: How Do High School Students "Justify" Internet Plagiarism? I will conduct an empirical study of how students justify Internet-based plagiarism. When students recognize what they are doing is plagiarism, is wrong, and that they are violating ethical and legal norms and regulations, what do they tell themselves? Do students who plagiarize engage in moral slippage? Do students who plagiarize do so openly in groups (i.e. as a result of peer pressure or group think) or is internet plagiarism a more secretive individual activity? Answering these questions will help to formulate responses to plagiarism in policy and educational initiatives. MORE >> BIOSKETCH >>
Psychology Through Ecology: Academic Motivation, Moral Aptitudes, and Cheating Behavior in Middle and High School Settings
Jason M. Stephens
Doctoral Candidate, Educational Psychology
Stanford University
The proposed study seeks to better understand why so many secondary students cheat, even those who believe it is morally wrong to do so. Towards this end, a person-in-context model of academic conduct is advanced, one that not only accounts for cognitive, motivational, and regulatory components related to students' moral functioning, but also the norms and expectations of the academic and social environment in which they are enmeshed. MORE>> BIOSKETCH>>
Integrity and Mental Health: Examining the Relationship Between a Student's Ethical Beliefs and Levels of Psychological and Emotional Adjustment
Scott Wowra
J. H. Miller Presidential Fellow
University of Florida
Students differ in their ethical thinking. The present investigation examines how the endorsement of 2 ethical ideologies, the principled ethic and the pragmatic ethic, covary with students' levels of mental health, psychopathology, and emotional adjustment. MORE>> BIOSKETCH>>