The use frequency of 10 different methods for preventing and detecting academic dishonesty and the factors influencing their use

Studies in Higher Education

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1126-1144

  Sattler, Sebastian ^a   Wiegel, Constantin ^b,c   Veen, Floris van ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b International Institute for Empirical Social Economics   (Germany)

^c BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

academic dishonesty; cheating on exams; cheating prevention; fabrication of data; falsification of data; plagiarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945217382     PISSN: 03075079     EISSN: 1470174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2015.1085007     Document Type: Article

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