How to Prevent Students from Cheating during the Midterms?
https://doi.org/10.38050/01300105201726
Abstract
Academic dishonesty, particularly cheating, is a global phenomenon that exists almost in every country. Different methods are developed to deal with student cheating. All of them can be divided into four main directions. Less investigated way is to enhance moral gravity of punishment in case of spotting a fact of cheating (moral cost enhancing). This paper examines the effect of spotting probability decrease and its relationship with moral cost enhancing. Empirical data used in the paper are based on the results of written tests taken by students of economic faculty of MSU. This fact allowed estimating the cheating probability directly instead of using traditional for such papers questionnaire survey. Different factors impacting on the cheating probability were modeled using differencein-differences econometric method. It is shown that moral gravity of punishment for cheating enhancing exerting significant negative influence on cheating probability. Furthermore, such enhancing decreases significance of academic achievement influence on cheating probability. Gender influence on cheating probability was not detected.
About the Author
Ya. A. Roshchina
Moscow state University named after M. V. Lomonosov
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Roshchina Ya.A. How to Prevent Students from Cheating during the Midterms? Moscow University Economics Bulletin. 2017;(2):107-127. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.38050/01300105201726
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