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Does a Strong Academic Integrity Culture Discourage Academic Dishonesty Among Graduate Students?

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  • Mostafa Amir, Sabbih

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The issue of academic dishonesty has received a considerable amount of attention in academic studies over the past 20 years. Researchers have tried to empirically test a number of determinants and factors to explain academic dishonesty. This article aim to investigate the influence of an integrity culture on discouraging academic dishonesty among graduate students of KDI School through applying the knowledge of previous studies related to the academic integrity culture. It applied simple correlation test to observe the influence of contextual factors including existence of honor codes, chance of getting caught and punishment on the likelihood of cheating. However, it could not find enough evidence to support that a strong academic integrity culture discourage academic dishonesty and suspected that there may be other demographic and cultural factors associated.

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  • Mostafa Amir, Sabbih, 2019. "Does a Strong Academic Integrity Culture Discourage Academic Dishonesty Among Graduate Students?," MPRA Paper 93012, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Academic integrity; contextual factors; higher education; cheating;
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    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions

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