The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions

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Autor(a) principal: Ramos, Rosária
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Joaquim, P. Gonçalves, Sónia
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/28788
Resumo: The perception that academic fraud is widespread in higher education affects the credibility of higher education schools, giving rise to doubts concerning the quality of learning and the students’ preparation for their professional life. Academic misconduct is presently a common research area. However, higher education schools still seem unable to contain academic fraud, given its prevalence and scope. Therefore, understanding students’ perceptions and attitudes remains critical for schools to define effective policies in promoting and defending academic integrity. Towards that aim, the results from a set of focus groups of students from a higher education school are presented. Students do not link academic fraud with unethical professional behaviour, propose more sanctions for those who commit academic fraud, and consider that certain evaluation methods favour unethical behaviour.
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title The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
spellingShingle The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
Ramos, Rosária
Academic fraud; academic integrity; higher education; perceptions; students
title_short The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
title_full The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
title_fullStr The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
title_full_unstemmed The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
title_sort The Unbearable Lightness of Academic Fraud: Portuguese Higher Education Students’ Perceptions
author Ramos, Rosária
author_facet Ramos, Rosária
Gonçalves, Joaquim
P. Gonçalves, Sónia
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P. Gonçalves, Sónia
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Ramos, Rosária
Gonçalves, Joaquim
P. Gonçalves, Sónia
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Academic fraud; academic integrity; higher education; perceptions; students
topic Academic fraud; academic integrity; higher education; perceptions; students
description The perception that academic fraud is widespread in higher education affects the credibility of higher education schools, giving rise to doubts concerning the quality of learning and the students’ preparation for their professional life. Academic misconduct is presently a common research area. However, higher education schools still seem unable to contain academic fraud, given its prevalence and scope. Therefore, understanding students’ perceptions and attitudes remains critical for schools to define effective policies in promoting and defending academic integrity. Towards that aim, the results from a set of focus groups of students from a higher education school are presented. Students do not link academic fraud with unethical professional behaviour, propose more sanctions for those who commit academic fraud, and consider that certain evaluation methods favour unethical behaviour.
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