Academic dishonesty: A zero tolerance professor and student registration choices

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 735-754

  Levy, Elliott S ^a   Rakovski, Carter C ^a  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic dishonesty; Cheating; Honor codes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744779901     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-006-9013-8     Document Type: Article

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