Akram Sanagoo; Soheyla Kalantari; Noshin Kashefi; Mohamad Zaman Majnoni; Leila Jouybari
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Background and Objectives Cheating is a common phenomenon that can undermine the credibility of university tests and certificates. Cheating is a more sensitive issue among medical students. The present study was conducted to investigate the performance and attitude of undergraduate students of Golestan ...
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Background and Objectives Cheating is a common phenomenon that can undermine the credibility of university tests and certificates. Cheating is a more sensitive issue among medical students. The present study was conducted to investigate the performance and attitude of undergraduate students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences in Iran towards cheating, as well asthe factors that influence cheating. Methods The present descriptive analytical and cross-sectional study was conducted in 2014 on 524 female and male undergraduate students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences. Convenience sampling was used to select the participants. The data were collected using a valid and reliable 64-item questionnaire on performance and attitude towards cheating with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.88. The obtained data were then analyzed using descriptive tests and the χ test. P < 0.05 was set as the level of statistical significance. Results Demographically, women made up 58% of the study population. In terms of ethnicity, 68.5% of the population wereFars, 24.6% Turkmen, and the rest were other ethnicities. A total of 70.6% of students had negative attitudes towards cheating. In terms of performance, 57.1% of students admitted to cheating. Significant relationships were observed between the attitude and performance of students (P = 0.001). The relationship between gender and occupational status, and attitude and performance was also found to be statistically significant (P < 0.050). Male and employed students had more positive attitudes towards cheating and actually did it more frequently than their female counterparts. Conclusions The majority of nursing students were against cheating in terms of attitude and performance. Nevertheless, to better understand this behavior and develop coping strategies, further studies should be conducted on the phenomenon of cheating in other academic activities among medical students.
Mitra Amini; Marjan Parizad; Sara Rivaz; Mohammad Mehdi Sagheb; Mozhdeh Rivaz
Volume 12, Issue 5 , February 2016, , Pages 709-717
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Background & Objective: Cheating in the university can be a predictor of workplace fraud and workplace fraud among physicians and specialists will have negative consequences This study was performed for the purpose of determining the prevalence of all kinds of cheating among medical students which ...
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Background & Objective: Cheating in the university can be a predictor of workplace fraud and workplace fraud among physicians and specialists will have negative consequences This study was performed for the purpose of determining the prevalence of all kinds of cheating among medical students which were in their last three years of Medical School at Shiraz University of Medical Sciences Iran in 2010 Methods: The study sample consisted of 136 medical students in their last three years of study The participants were selected through simple random sampling The data collection tool was a selfadministered questionnaire The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and its reliability was reported as 087 in a study Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and independent ttest (for the variable of gender) in SPSS statistical software Results: All students answered the questionnaire; thus the response rate was 100% Among the respondents 64% were male and the rest female According to the results more than 80% of students had experienced copying during an exam at least once during the academic period Moreover 25% of students have performed at least one kind of plagiarism in writing their thesis and essays The performance of medical students in the clinical course showed that 50% of students had cheated at least once during their academic period The rate of cheating was significantly lower in female students Conclusion: Although the majority of students have a positive attitude and believe cheating to be a dishonest action half of them have cheated This may be due to stress caused by examinations Therefore it seems that students behaviors should be changed and they must receive the necessary training in this regard so that stress is not the cause of fraud and this phenomenon is inhibited
Nozar Nakhaee; Seyyed Vahid Seyyed Hosseinie
Volume 1, Issue 2 , January 2005, , Pages 57-63
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Background: Cheating among university students is highly common so that some experts have described it as “epidemic” Objective: To determine the opinion of medical students in one of medical universities towards cheating and to estimate its frequency Methods: A selfadministered ...
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Background: Cheating among university students is highly common so that some experts have described it as “epidemic” Objective: To determine the opinion of medical students in one of medical universities towards cheating and to estimate its frequency Methods: A selfadministered questionnaire content valid and reliable was distributed among medical students (between years 1 to 6) at the end of lectures They were asked to estimate the frequency of cheating among their classmates and to show whether or not they approve the cheating behavior types on a likert scale Results: Of three hundred and two students participated in the study all replied 68% of respondents were female and the rest were male The range of the students in each level was 31 persons (level three) to 85 ones (the sixth level) According to the findings “attendance of another person in the exam session” was the most rejected cheating type ( =413) and the most approved type of cheating was “not informing the teacher about the wrong higher score” ( =263) A considerable rate of students (about 50%) approved some types of cheating The relative frequency of some types of cheating has been estimated to about 50% Comparing the students opinions showed no significant difference in terms of sex Conclusion: Paying attention to cheating among students is necessary
