TY - JOUR 
A1 - Ahmed, Khawlah
T1 - Student Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty in a Private Middle Eastern University
Y1 - 2018
SN - 2157-6254
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11268/7357
AB - Objective: In varying degrees of severity and seriousness, evidence of academic dishonesty exists in tertiary institutions around the world. This paper examines academic misconduct in a tertiary-level institution in one of the Gulf countries to see if academic dishonesty prevails, and if so, how and why it happens.
Method: To gauge students’ perceptions about academic dishonesty in this context, a survey was distributed to 111 junior, sophomore, and senior level students taking an advanced academic writing course in a private university.
Results: Results show statistically significant evidence that cheating exists.
Conclusions: While research on academic misconduct is extensive in Western contexts, less is documented in the Middle East and North Africa region besides conceptual papers that aim to create a general understanding of this issue and newspaper articles that discuss its prevalence.
KW - Plagiarism
KW - Educación superior
KW - Innovaciones educativas
KW - Enseñanza superior
KW - Innovación educacional
LA - eng
ER -