A Comparison of Academic Dishonesty Among Business Students in a Public and Private Catholic University
- 1 March 2003
- journal article
- higher education
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journal of Research on Christian Education
- Vol. 12 (1), 27-48
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10656210309484942
Abstract
A questionnaire on academic dishonesty was administered to junior and senior business administration majors at a public and a private Catholic university. Students were asked their extent of participation in 16 dishonest academic practices; their ratings of the ethical levels of the practices; their ratings of the likelihood of reasons for participation in the practices; and their sex, grade point average (GPA), and class rank. Though the catalog of the Catholic university indicated a greater emphasis on ethics and values education than did the catalog of the public school, the two groups of students reported very similar levels of academic dishonesty. Possible reasons for the disconnect between the emphasis on values and morals at the Catholic university and the students' academic behavior are discussed.Keywords
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