Cultural Influences on Academic Sharing: A Challenge to Academic Honesty

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Author(s): Nancy D. Albers (Louisiana State University – Shreveport, USA)and Tami L. Knotts (Louisiana State University – Shreveport, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 23
Source title: Handbook of Research on Cross-Cultural Online Learning in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jared Keengwe (University of North Dakota, USA)and Kenneth Kungu (Clayton State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8286-1.ch012

Keywords: Education / Higher Education / Information Science Reference / Virtual Learning Environments

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The purpose of this chapter is to examine student perspectives on academic sharing, in both online and face-to-face higher educational settings, focusing on generational and cross-national differences. In recent years, students have taken to excusing traditional acts considered to be cheating as benevolent acts of generosity and caring. This study empirically examines if engagement in cheating behavior, rationalization of unfair advantage, and acceptance of academic dishonesty are predictable using measures of age and culture. Specifically, the authors tested for differences between millennials and pre-millennials and differences between collectivistic and individualistic cultures. Not surprisingly, the results confirm that students engage in acts of academic dishonesty. This study indicated, however, that many students increasingly consider certain acts of academic dishonesty as appropriate behavior. Millennials and some students from more collectivistic countries are rationalizing damaging acts of cheating as common and acceptable. These students are systematically shifting blame for their bad acts onto others.

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