A Development of Academic Dishonesty Assessment Tool of Graduate Students Using Experimental Survey
Keywords:
academic dishonesty, experimental surveyAbstract
This experimental survey combines experimental and survey research. The use of vignettes as intervention in the questionnaire could assist respondents to answer the questions in a realistic manner and reduce limits due to social norms. This principle was applied to develop a tool to assess graduate students’ intention to commit academic dishonesty using an experimental survey. The research instrument was a vignette questionnaire. The questionnaire consisted of four levels. The research sample included 30 graduate students of education. Agreement and reliability analyses was conducted using computer software. The results indicate that the degree of agreement of each item in the instrument ranged from 0-1.00. The test-retest reliability was .83 significant at .05.
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