Situational and personal causes of student cheating

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 293-313

  Rettinger, David A ^a   Kramer, Yair ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b YESHIVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic integrity; Higher education; Neutralizing attitudes; Student cheating; Vignette experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 61449210734     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-008-9116-5     Document Type: Article

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