How do Students Cheat?

Psychology of Academic Cheating

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 33-55

  Garavalia, Linda ^a   Olson, Elizabeth ^a   Russell, Emily ^a   Christensen, Leslie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-012372541-7/50004-8     Document Type: Chapter

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