Investigating the effect of academic procrastination on the frequency and variety of academic misconduct: a panel study

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1014-1029

  Patrzek, Justine ^a   Sattler, Sebastian ^a,b,c   van Veen, Floris ^a   Grunschel, Carola ^a   Fries, Stefan ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c Universität   (Germany)

Author keywords

academic procrastination; cheating in exams; fabrication and falsification of data; fraudulent excuses; plagiarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84932197895     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2013.854765     Document Type: Article

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