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Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty

Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty

Nancy D. Albers, Tami L. Knotts
Copyright: © 2019 |Pages: 23
ISBN13: 9781522582861|ISBN10: 152258286X|EISBN13: 9781522582878
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch012
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Albers, Nancy D., and Tami L. Knotts. "Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty." Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education, edited by Jared Keengwe and Kenneth Kungu, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 230-252. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch012

APA

Albers, N. D. & Knotts, T. L. (2019). Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty. In J. Keengwe & K. Kungu (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education (pp. 230-252). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch012

Chicago

Albers, Nancy D., and Tami L. Knotts. "Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty." In Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education, edited by Jared Keengwe and Kenneth Kungu, 230-252. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch012

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Abstract

The purpose of this chapter is to examine student perspectives on academic sharing, in both online and face-to-face higher educational settings, focusing on generational and cross-national differences. In recent years, students have taken to excusing traditional acts considered to be cheating as benevolent acts of generosity and caring. This study empirically examines if engagement in cheating behavior, rationalization of unfair advantage, and acceptance of academic dishonesty are predictable using measures of age and culture. Specifically, the authors tested for differences between millennials and pre-millennials and differences between collectivistic and individualistic cultures. Not surprisingly, the results confirm that students engage in acts of academic dishonesty. This study indicated, however, that many students increasingly consider certain acts of academic dishonesty as appropriate behavior. Millennials and some students from more collectivistic countries are rationalizing damaging acts of cheating as common and acceptable. These students are systematically shifting blame for their bad acts onto others.

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