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Hellfire And Academic Dishonesty: An Empirical Evaluation Of The Influence Of Religious Orientation On Academic Deviance, Jason Robert Jolicoeur

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Academic dishonesty has long been considered a critical issue that threatens to undermine the very integrity of the educational process. This issue has taken on increased importance in an era in which higher education that has been characterized by calls for increased institutional accountability. While past studies have shed light on the issue of academic dishonesty, there are still a number of critical variables pertaining to student cheating that have yet to be examined. This exploratory study examined whether religious orientation influences three variables related to academic dishonesty; student perceptions of the prevalence of academic dishonesty, general student attitudes toward …