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Academic corruption: culture and trust in Indian higher education

Singular acts of academic corruption, such as cheating on an exam, occur in all institutions in all countries.Until recently, however, academic corruption that is systemic has been under-studied and under-theorized. This article focuses exclusively...

Tierney, William G.;Sabharwal, Nidhi S.

2017
OECD Reviews of integrity in education: Ukraine 2017

Education in Ukraine is marked by integrity violations from early childhood education and care through postgraduate study. In the past decade policy makers and civic organisations have made progress in addressing these challenges. However, much...

OECD

2017
The Challenges of academic integrity in higher education: current trends and prospects

Corruption in higher education is not a new phenomenon. However, massification, internationalization, privatization and commercialization are requiring universities to focus on issues of ethics as never before. This fifth issue in the CIHE...

Denisova-Schmidt, Elena

Boston, Center for International Higher Education, CIHE, 2017
Ukraine: endemic higher education corruption

Based on a survey conducted among 600 students at selected public universities in Lviv, one of the largest Ukrainian cities, this contribution explores the determinants of several forms of student academic dishonesty and provides insights as to which...

Denisova-Schmidt, Elena; Prytula, Yaroslav

Boston, Center for International Higher Education, CIHE, 2017
Honor Codes: Evidence Based Strategies for Improving Academic Integrity

Although there is evidence of cheating at all levels of education, institutions often do not implement or design integrity policies, such as honor codes, to prevent and adjudicate academic dishonesty. Further, faculty members rarely discuss academic...

Tatum, Holly, Schwartz, Beth M.

2017
Fighting Corruption in Education: What Works and Who Benefits?

We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for...

Borcan, Oana, Lindahl, Mikael, Mitrut, Andreea

2017
Cheating or cheated? Surviving secondary exit exams in a neoliberal era

Cheating on exams is a rampant and highly developed practice among youth in the Arab world, often involving elaborate networks, advanced technology and adult authorities. Rather than viewing cheating as mere laziness or immorality, this article...

Buckner, Elizabeth; Hodges, Rebecca

2016
Is plagiarism changing over time? A 10-year time-lag study with three points of measurement

Are more students cheating on assessment tasks in higher education? Despite ongoing media speculation concerning increased ‘copying and pasting’ and ghostwritten assignments produced by ‘paper mills’, few studies have charted historical trends in...

Curtis, Guy J.; Vardanega, Lucia

2016
Handbook of academic integrity

The book brings together diverse views from around the world and provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, beginning with different definitions of academic integrity through how to create the ethical academy. At the same time, the Handbook...

Bretag, Tracey

Singapore, Springer Singapore, 2016
The global challenge of academic integrity

Corruption in higher education affects the developed and the developing world equally, even if the motivation and the actors are different.The author focusses her attention exclusively on academic misconduct, given its ubiquity in higher education...

Denisova-Schmidt, Elena

2016

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