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Reasons for academic dishonesty in a traditional and a partially online environment: a survey

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The paper presents a study on the reasons for the academic dishonesty in live (traditional) and partially online courses. The study was conducted at the Department of Informatics, University of Rijeka over a sample of 114 undergraduate and graduate students. The main contributions of this paper are: a) the identification of several main reasons why students cheat in both types of courses, and b) the identification of the usual penalties for cheating in both learning environments.

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    CompSysTech '15: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Systems and Technologies
    June 2015
    411 pages
    ISBN:9781450333573
    DOI:10.1145/2812428

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