Cheating among college and university students: A North American perspective

By Donald L. Mccabe. 2005

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Academic integrity is an issue of critical importance to academic institutions and has been gaining increasing interest among scholars in the last few decades. This article discusses data obtained over the last three years from over 80,000 students and 12,000 faculty in the United States and Canada. While documenting that cheating on tests and exams and plagiarism are significant issues on our college and university campuses, it also offers some thoughts on possible strategies to encourage greater levels of academic integrity among students.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations, Safety Research

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Is plagiarism changing over time? A 10-year time-lag study with three points of measurement (2016, background): “Occasionally, studies incidentally report differences between year levels within a cross-sectional comparison (e.g., McCabe, 2005 compared undergraduate and post-graduate students).”
Plagiarism in second-language writing (2014, methodology): “McCabe (2005) provides a meta-analysis of a series of studies he and his co-researchers conducted at US and Canadian universities.”
A comparison of Chinese and Australian university students' attitudes towards plagiarism (2016, background): “Although the exact prevalence of plagiarism is unknown, large-scale studies have found that more than 30% of students admit to reproducing others’ ideas or words in an assignment without proper acknowledgement, with up to 20% of students doing so with significant portions of text (Christensen Hughes”
Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students (2019, result): “However, the response rate was comparable to other large surveys on students’ cheating behaviour and with McCabe (2005) we maintain that ‘while response rates and response bias are of concern, clearly this is still a very rich database’ (McCabe 2005).”
Contract cheating and assessment design: exploring the relationship (2018, result): “This finding supports numerous studies (McCabe and Trevino 1993; McCabe 2005) that have reported high levels of plagiarism and other academic integrity breaches in business more broadly, and commerce specifically.”
Awareness about plagiarism amongst university students in Pakistan (2012, background): “Findings of a study by McCabe (2005) revealed that in colleges and universities of USA and Canada one in every five students admitted that s/he had cheated in tests or exams at least once or more time in last 1 year whereas the number increases to 59% among undergraduate students.”
Rational Ignorance in Education: A Field Experiment in Student Plagiarism (2010, unknown): “For example, in a recent survey fielded to over 60,000 students at 83 different campuses in the United States and Canada, over a third of students admitted to paraphrasing or copying a few sentences from a print or Internet source without attribution, sometime in the past year (McCabe 2005).”
Big five personality and academic dishonesty: A meta-analytic review. (2015, background): “McCabe (2005) surveyed over 64,000 undergraduates at U.S. and Canadian institutions from 2002 to 2005.”
‘Teach us how to do it properly!’ An Australian academic integrity student survey (2014, methodology): “Although the survey is also administered to teaching faculty to ‘assess the overall climate of academic integrity on a campus’ (McCabe 2005), the main respondents to the survey are undergraduate students, and a key focus has been to determine the extent of cheating on campus.”
Tertiary student attitudes to invigilated, online summative examinations (2016, background): “Studies have consistently shown that significant cheating occurs in traditional assessment settings and its incidence continues to grow (McCabe, 2005; Schmelkin, Gilbert, Spencer, Pincus, & Silva, 2008; Whitley, 1998).”
Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education (2020, background): “Reducing and detecting plagiarism and contract cheating requires a holistic approach to be taken (McCabe 2005; Morris 2018).”
Weeds in the flower garden: An exploration of plagiarism in graduate students' research proposals and its connection to enculturation, ESL, and contextual factors (2010, background): “…previous researchers, whilst self-reports of plagiarism can provide valuable information, this method raises issues of response bias due to the sensitive nature of the topic (McCabe, 2005) as well as the variability in students’ definitions of what constitutes plagiarism (Marshall & Garry, 2006).”
Who has read the policy on plagiarism? Unpacking students' understanding of plagiarism (2014, background): “…a search of the published literature revealed that while research has investigated why students’ plagiarise (Burrus, McGoldrick, and Schuhmann 2007; McCabe 2005a; Sutherland-Smith 2005), who plagiarises (Harding et al 2007; Iyer and Eastman 2006; McCabe 2005b), how they plagiarise (McCabe and…”
Reasons for Plagiarism in Higher Education (2017, unknown): “The results of a study conducted in the US and Canadian universities present the incidence of plagiarism, since one of five students admitted that he/she has cheated on tests or exams at least once in the last year, but the number rises to 59% for undergraduate students (McCabe, 2005).”