Integrity, Religiosity, Gender: Factors Preventing on Academic Fraud

The purpose of this study is to explain and predict the effect of respondent integrity and religiosity in relation to the possibility of academic fraud, which is mostly done by students. The study was also supposed to look at the effect of gender on students’ academic fraud behavior. This study involved 102 accounting students from public universities in Malang, Indonesia. Researchers used survey methods to collect data, and data were analyzed by SPSS software using multiple linear regression and moderated regression analysis. The findings of this study indicate that a lack of integrity and religion has a negative impact on the likelihood of academic fraud. This shows that students with higher levels of honesty and religion are less likely to commit academic fraud. While gender did not appear to have a substantial impact on the effect between integrity, religiosity, and the likelihood of academic cheating, both male and female students had similar levels of integrity and religiosity. The findings of this study will be useful for universities in formulating academic policies related to academic fraud prevention measures.

Determination of Academic Fraud by Using Communication Media as a Mediation Variable

The main purpose of education program is to develop the talent of students to become religious, noble character, democratic and responsible. Unfortunately, many students do not fully understand these objectives. They still consider academic achievement as the key to their future success. In order to get achievements, some even commit fraud. This is what underlies the background of this research to determine academic fraud in Vocational School students in Langkat Regency in terms of Fraud Pentagon Theory by including Mass Media as a mediating variable. The research method used is quantitative with the research subjects are Vocational School students in Langkat Regency, North Sumatra. Data collection was carried out through the distribution of Likert-type questionnaires. All research questionnaires were tested before being given to actual respondents and based on the results of validity and reliability testing, it was stated that all instruments were feasible to use. The data analysis used is Path Analysis using the SmartPLS Ver. 3 for Windows. The results showed: 1). Fraudulent Behavior has a positive and significant effect on Communication Media; 2). CommunicationMedia has a positive and significant effect on Academic Fraud; 3). Fraudulent Behavior has a positive and significant effect on Academic Fraud; 4). Fraudulent behavior through CommunicationMedia has a positive and significant effect on Academic Fraud at SMK Langkat Regency, North Sumatra. The suggestion in this research is that the role of parents and closest people is needed to make students aware that the main goal of education is not just achieving achievements, moreover get the achievements by fraud mechanism. Keywords: Fraud Pentagon Theory, Academic Fraud, Vocational High School.

Perceptions and illusions of students regarding presumably undetected cheating during the COVID-19 pandemic in Greece

The present study constitutes a preliminary research on the attitudes and perceptions of students in Greece concerning cheating in exams and plagiarism in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey conducted among 578 students shows a sharp increase in the employment of underhanded means by students towards attaining better grades in the exams. These findings need to be evaluated by the academic community to put a check on the rising number of instances of academic fraud.

Academic student fraud in longitudinal research design

The authors emphasize the importance of studying academic fraud among students. This phenomenon takes on large-scale dimensions. The authors are convinced that the solution of the problem depends on the scientific knowledge of the psychological portrait of students. Within the framework of the personalist approach, the authors present a review of the scientific literature. The authors identified a problematic field of empirical research that would reveal the dynamics of students' subjective perceptions of a person who resorts to academic fraud. A sample of the study was formed, the author's questionnaire was presented. The results of a longitudinal study of the dynamics of subjective perceptions of cognitive characteristics, emotional manifestations, and behavioral patterns of a student's personality are presented for discussion. To complete the psychological portrait of the students, valid psychodiagnostic techniques were used in the study. The stages of the study are presented. The analysis of empirical data is based on the evidence-based methods of the statistical thesaurus. The findings of the study revealed the students’ ideas about the person resorting to plagiarism. In conclusion, the authors formulated step-by-step programs of psychological support for students to refuse to use various schemes of academic fraud.

Fraud triangle, misuse of information technology and student integrity toward the academic cheating of UM student during the pandemic Covid-19

There are many forms of academic cheating that occur among students, especially the practice of cheating. There are many factors that encourage students' academic cheating practices, especially with the aim of getting a targeted high score. Therefore, the researcher tries to find out the factors that influence the actions of academic cheating among students by referring to the fraud triangle theory which is relevant to the theme of this research. The variables observed in this study were: pressure (X1), opportunity (X2), rationalization (X3), misuse of information technology (X4), and student integrity (X5) as independent variables (independent), while the dependent variable (dependent) used behavior academic cheating on students (Y). This study used an instrument in the form of an open questionnaire with a Likert scale. The population that took as many as 500 accounting students, UM, and samples collected as many as 30 samples that have been filtered according to the criteria (purposive sampling). Analysis of the data used is multiple linear regression analysis. The results show that simultaneously, the variables of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, misuse of information technology, and student integrity have an influence on student academic fraud. The partial test shows that only the misuse of information technology has an effect on academic cheating of accounting students, ME, while the other variables have no significant effect. This is because when students learn online during the Covid-19 pandemic, they are able to take advantage of technological sophistication in this globalization era, especially in the current industry 4.0 era to carry out academic cheating actions that are oriented towards targeted values (GPA).

Kecurangan Akademik Dalam Perspektif Teori Fraud Diamond

Academic fraud can occur in university because it is influenced by various underlying factors, both internally and externally. The purpose of holding this study was to determine whether the pressure, opportunity, rationalization, and abilities possessed by students significantly influence the occurrence of academic fraud in university. This research was conducted on 92 students of the Accounting Major in East Java "Veteran" National Development University by filling out a questionnaire via Google Form. The results of data collection were processed statistically using SmartPLS. The results of data analysis show that pressure, rationalization, and ability have a significant effect on academic fraud, while opportunities do not significantly influence students because lecturers always provide objective assessments to students, thereby reducing the chance of academic fraud. Keywords: Diamond Fraud Theory, Academic Fraud

COMPUTER TESTING IN CONDITIONS OF DISTANCE LEARNING (ON THE EXAMPLE OF TEACHING RECORDS MANAGEMENT COURSES AT UNIVERSITIES)

The article is devoted to usage of the method of computer testing during distance learning on the example of records management courses. Testing as a pedagogical method has been characterized from different positions. Among its advantages, the author considers the best memorization of information and the teacher's ability to focus on important aspects of educational material, ensuring systematization and structurization of educational information, the speed and objectivity of assessing students' knowledge. Among the main shortcomings of testing the author regards involuntary memorization of incorrect answers, low interactivity, inactivity of the speech channel, impossibility to check students' way of thinking, failure to ensure the integrity of knowledge in case of incorrect application of the method. The author shows the polyfunctionality of testing as a pedagogical method, reveals the essence of its diagnostic, educational and formative functions. The article provides recommendations for the preparation of high-quality test tasks and highlights typical mistakes made by teachers creating them. These are unreasonably long questions and answers to them; abuse of factual material; usage of outdated or unverified information to compose tests; ambiguity of test questions / answers to them; offering of implausible answers to questions; introduction of secondary information in test questions; unjustified usage of highly specialized vocabulary; words of foreign origin, diffuse vocabulary; uneven coverage of course topics by tests and non-uniformity of test tasks. The author defends the importance of psychological and technical students' preparation for computer testing, suggests conducting briefings and trainings before final testing. The list of tips for preparing for computer testing has been proposed for students who had the opportunity to familiarize themselves with the list of test tasks before an exam, and for those who did not have such an opportunity. Controversial issues have been raised related to technical settings for computer testing and academic integrity. Factors such as the complexity of a topic and test tasks in particular; the level of preparedness of the group; the number of consultations and lessons on a course; the awareness of students about the correct answers to the tests, as well as the familiarity / unfamiliarity of students with test tasks should be taken into account when the examiner determines the number of attempts to pass a final computer testing. Ways to reduce cases of academic fraud related to the usage of the computer testing method have been proposed.

“There are Always Ways to Cheat” Academic Dishonesty Strategies During Online Learning

Since the implementation of online learning in various countries in the world, all educational institutions have made new learning adjustments. Universities are educational institutions that have also changed the online learning system. but online learning has an impact on academic ethical behavior. Purpose. the aims of this study is to determine the behavior of academic dishonesty when online learning is applied, besides that it also examines the strategies of nursing students majoring in academic dishonesty. Materials and methods. 150 college students participated in filling out an online academic dishonesty questionnaire and we randomly selected 5 nursing students to participate in a focus group discussion to discuss their dishonest behavior during online learning. Results. Our research shows that academic dishonesty behavior in the form of collaboration is common in online learning. In the process, student learning has strategies for committing academic fraud in various ways, including by downloading a friend’s answer file in the online system by logging in using a standard username and password that is not changed by students. In addition, the student chose to behave dishonestly by imitating his friend’s work by simply changing the name rather than trying to answer the question. and take advantage of the whatsapp group application to collaborate in cheating. Conclusions. Collaboration in academic dishonesty predominates: one way is by collaborating in online groups to cooperate with each other illegally. We describe several other forms in detail and discuss them.

Pengaruh Fraud Diamond dan Religiusitas terhadap Kecurangan Akademik Mahasiswa Akuntansi

Higher education is expected to be able to produce professionals who are able to compete in the era of globalization both in science and in morals, however fraudulent practices are often found in the world of education which is often referred to as academic fraud. This study aims to determine the factors that influence student academic fraud by using the fraud diamond concept and religiosity. Collecting data in this study using online questionnaires and purposive sampling techniques with the criteria of active students who have taken auditing courses 2. The sample of this study was 80 active students of the Accounting Study Program at Universitas PGRI Yogyakarta, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta, Universitas Teknologi Yogyakarta, and Universitas Sanata Dharma Yogyakarta. Data analysis techniques using multiple linear regression models and data testing using SPSS. The results of this study indicate that opportunity and rationalization have a significant positive effect on academic cheating while pressure, capability, and religiosity have no effect on academic cheating.

Pengaruh Fraud Diamond dan Gonetheory Terhadap Academic Fraud

This research examines the factors of pressure, opportunity, rationalization, ability, greed, need, and disclosure of academic fraud behavior in accounting students at Institute of Business and Informatics Kesatuan Bogor. This type of research is a quantitative study, using a questionnaire as a research instrument measured by a Likert scale. This study used a sample of 306 students who had already participated in filling out the questionnaire that the researcher had distributed in the form of a Google Form. The data analysis technique used is multiple linear regression analysis using the IBM SPSS version 25 software. The results of this study indicate that the opportunity and need factors affect the academic fraud of accounting students at the Bogor Institute of Business and Informatics, while the factors of pressure, rationalization, ability, greed, and disclosure have no effect on academic fraud committed by accounting students at the Institute of Business and Informatics Kesatuan.