Faculty/Student Comparison

Academic Dishonesty Survey Comparisons*

 

What do you think the majority of Kansas State students would do if they saw another student cheating on a major test or examination?

	% KSU FACULTY	% KSU STUDENTS
Report cheaters	5	21
Ask cheater to report themselves	0	7
Express disapproval	9	16
Tell others	64	36
Ignore the incident	21	18
Other	1	2

 

If someone asked a student for help during a test or exam, how do you think most Kansas State students would respond?

	% KSU FACULTY	% KSU STUDENTS
Give him/her the answer	0	0
Say nothing but expose their paper so he/she can copy the answer	7	4
Ignore or turn down the request	70	75
Express disapproval informally but not report him/her	20	13
Report him/her to the instructor or other appropriate authority	0	5
Other	3	3

 

How would you rate (options=very low, low, high, very high):

% Faculty rating each statement "low" or "very low"
% Students rating each statement "low" or "very low"

	% KSU FACULTY	% KSU STUDENTS
Competitiveness for grades	33	22
Student pressure to get good grades	26	17
Severity of penalties for cheating	62	15
Chances of getting caught cheating	70	49
Student understanding of policies	65	28
Faculty understanding of policies	33	5
Faculty support of policies	18	8
Effectiveness of policies	76	38

 

For Faculty:
Measure likely taken if student is convicted of cheating on a major test or examination. Measure likely taken if student is convicted of cheating on a major written assignment. The percentages for major written assignments are written in parentheses (x).

For Students:
Measure likely to be taken by faculty who suspects cheating on a major test or examination. Measure likely to be taken by faculty who suspects cheating on a majorwritten assignment. The percentages for major written assignments are written in parentheses (x).

	% KSU FACULTY	% KSU STUDENTS
Reprimand the student and warn not to do again	5 (10)	4 (5)
Make student retake exam or assignment	11 (14)	3 (5)
Fail student on exam or assignment	41 (52)	16 (33)
Fail student in the course	21 (14)	27 (20)
Put a written warning in file or place on probation	9 (3)	12 (14)
Suspend student from school	5 (0)	11 (9)
Expel student from school	1 (0)	20 (7)
Other	0 (0)	2 (2)
Don't know	7 (8)	5 (5)

 

For Faculty:
Students have different views on what constitutes cheating and what is acceptable behavior. In a typical academic year, how often have you observed any of the following behaviors in your class. How serious do you consider this form of cheating? Data are given in % of faculty who answered observing one or more instances of each behavior. Data given for seriousness of cheating (%) are given in parentheses (x).

For Students:
% of students admitting to one or more instances of each behavior.
% of students who think behavior is not serious cheating in parenthesis (x) .

	% KSU FACULTY	% KSU STUDENTS
Copying on test w/o other's knowledge	45 (3)	21 (24)
Copying on test w/ other's knowledge	27 (0)	17 (22)
Using unpermitted crib notes	33 (3)	13 (22)
Getting Q/A from someone who has taken a test	38 (10)	43 (57)
Helping someone cheat on a test	22 (8)	16 (20)
Cheating on a test in any other way	31 (6)	8 (30)
Copying material, almost word for word, from any source for one's own work	70 (10)	20 (33)
Fabricating or falsifying a bibliography	25 (16)	11 (48)
Turning in work done by someone else	44 (0)	6 (28)
Receiving substantial, unpermitted help on an assignment	44 (32)	24 (63)
Working on an assignment with others when the instructor asked for individual work	48 (48)	39 (76)
Copying a few sentences of material without footnoting them in a paper	62 (57)	45 (66)
Writing or providing a paper for another	19 (3)	9 (24)
Turning in a paper obtained from "paper mill" or web site	9 (8)	5 (30)
Plagiarizing a paper in any way using the Internet as a source	23 (10)	8 (38)
Copying a computer program as own	18 (9)	11 (35)
Falsifying lab or research data	14 (1)	25 (51)

 

*Donald L. McCabe. 1999 Fall Semester Academic Dishonesty Survey Study conducted at Kansas State University.