Literature Review #3

Academic Dishonesty in the Canadian Classroom: Behaviours of a Sample of University Students

MLA Citation:

Jurdi, Rozzet, Sam Hage, and P.H. Chow. "Academic Dishonesty in the Canadian Classroom: Behaviours of a Sample of University Students." Canadian Journal of Higher Education 41 (2011): 1-35. Print.

Summary:

The journal begins with the analysis of many other people's works. They delve into how individual factors such as sex, age, and greek life could affect their decision to participate in academic dishonesty. Another topic that they touch are factors in situations that affect students such as peers views towards cheating. After they analyze everyone else's work, they break down their own study of 320 students in a Canadian University. They make sure that each student stays confidential so that they answer these questions truthfully. The authors also made sure to find out all about the students they were getting for their responses to see if their were correlations between things such as Academic studies, Religious feelings, self efficacy, their motives, and other components.

Authors:

Rozzet Jurdi, Sam Hage, and P.H. Chow all are professors at the University of Regina. Rozzet Jurdi has a list of published works nationally and internationally. P.H. Chow has done a lot of work with students in college and how they view things around them. He is also published on many works and is no stranger to research.

Key Terms:

Self Efficacy- refers to the level of control people feel they have over their capacity to successfully achieve their objectives.

Motives- refers to the variables that affected a students decision to cheat. They include a heavy workload, maintaining a scholarship, outside social pressure, other students are cheating, and there is a minimal chance of being caught.

Quotes:

"Peer related factors were the most influential predictors of students' self-reported academic dishonesty, lending further support for the influence of situational factors in predicting academic dishonesty" page 23

"Another significant finding of this study is that students' engagement in dishonest academic behaviours was influence by their attitudes toward academic dishonesty" 23

"That is, students with a high score in the instrumental motives to study subscale were less likely to behave dishonestly when they had a high score in the self efficacy scale, suggesting perhaps that they had greater confidence in their capabilities to achieve their academic goals without resorting to academic dishonesty." 24

Value:

This journal and study all together seems like it will be very valuable. Their are a lot of raw data tables that show the correlations between situational, individual, and outside variables and cheating. This journal also combines the data of many other studies done which is also helpful. Lastly, it is interesting to see the data from a Canadian University and how that may differ in their findings. While most of the findings they had were similar to America Studies, it is still an interesting viewpoint to see if academic dishonesty is viewed differently between American and Canadians students. I will definitely be using this journal as one of my main sources of information for my paper.