Students' Perceptions of and Behaviors Toward Cheating in Online Education
Online education is pushing universities to search for technologies that can support e-assessment. Accordingly, an account of stakeholders' opinions and behaviors is required in order to develop such technologies. This paper underlines the need to analyze the differences between students'...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:303756 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/303756 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Cheating E-assessment E-authentication Students' behavior Students' perceptions |
| Sumario: | Online education is pushing universities to search for technologies that can support e-assessment. Accordingly, an account of stakeholders' opinions and behaviors is required in order to develop such technologies. This paper underlines the need to analyze the differences between students' perceptions of cheating and the acts of academic dishonesty they actually commit, arguing that not only does this help to fill a gap in the literature on cheating behaviors in online education, it can also lead to mechanisms that are able to prevent cheating and increase security. The research questions are as follows: (RQ1) Are students aware of what constitutes cheating in online education? (RQ2) Do students believe that an e-authentication system may increase their security and prevent cheating? (RQ3) Would the use of an e-authentication system for assessment increase students' trust? (RQ4) What are students' real cheating behaviors? A total of 154 students taking an online course as part of the bachelor's degrees in Computer Engineering and Telecommunications Technology at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya agreed to participate in the study. The research instruments were two surveys, and two course tools, an intelligent tutoring system and an image plagiarism detection tool. Results show that students' knowledge that an e-authentication and authoring system is used may prevent cheating and make students feel more confident. The findings have significant implications for institutions interested in rolling out secure e-assessment systems. |
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