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Cheating In The Digital Age: Do Students Cheat More In Online Courses?, George R. Watson, James Sottile
Cheating In The Digital Age: Do Students Cheat More In Online Courses?, George R. Watson, James Sottile
James Sottile
With the assistance of the Internet and related technologies, students today have many more ways to be academically dishonest than students a generation ago. With more and more Internet based course offerings, the concern is whether cheating will increase as students work and take tests away from the eyes of instructors. While the research on academic dishonesty in general is quite extensive, there is very limited research on student cheating in online courses. This study of 635 undergraduate and graduate students at a medium sized university focused on student cheating behaviors in both types of classes (on-line and face to …