TY - JOUR
T1 - Disclosing academic dishonesty: perspectives from Nigerian and New Zealand health professional students
AU - Okoroafor , Abaraogu Ukachukwu
AU - Hening, Marcus A.
AU - Chibuike, Okpara Michael
AU - Rajput, Vijay
N1 - YYYY only for final pub date, used DD/MM/YYYY from Crossref. ET 11/12/20
PY - 2016/7/3
Y1 - 2016/7/3
N2 - Few cross-national studies have been conducted on academic dishonesty. The aim of this study was to explore students’ disclosed levels of academic dishonesty between New Zealand and Nigeria. The measures obtained included incidence, acceptability, and justification of dishonest action. It was hypothesized that there would be differences between the two groups and that differences could be explained in terms of deontology, cultural relativism, utilitarianism, rational fair exchange, and/or response bias. There were 844 medical and health science students who participated in the study and completed a questionnaire that explored incidence, acceptability, and justification of dishonest action. A binary logistic regression revealed that age and incidence were significant predictors of country allocation. Nigerian students reported more engagement in dishonest behaviors, and it is argued that these students have diverse cultural expectations, language variances, response strategies, norms, beliefs, and values. Educational interventions are essential to address concerns related to academic dishonesty such as promoting cross-cultural discourse, providing study skills programs, utilizing peer mentoring, creating formal exchange strategies, and endorsing honor codes.
AB - Few cross-national studies have been conducted on academic dishonesty. The aim of this study was to explore students’ disclosed levels of academic dishonesty between New Zealand and Nigeria. The measures obtained included incidence, acceptability, and justification of dishonest action. It was hypothesized that there would be differences between the two groups and that differences could be explained in terms of deontology, cultural relativism, utilitarianism, rational fair exchange, and/or response bias. There were 844 medical and health science students who participated in the study and completed a questionnaire that explored incidence, acceptability, and justification of dishonest action. A binary logistic regression revealed that age and incidence were significant predictors of country allocation. Nigerian students reported more engagement in dishonest behaviors, and it is argued that these students have diverse cultural expectations, language variances, response strategies, norms, beliefs, and values. Educational interventions are essential to address concerns related to academic dishonesty such as promoting cross-cultural discourse, providing study skills programs, utilizing peer mentoring, creating formal exchange strategies, and endorsing honor codes.
KW - academic honesty
KW - health sciences
KW - Nigeria
KW - New Zealand
KW - university students
U2 - 10.1080/10508422.2015.1055494
DO - 10.1080/10508422.2015.1055494
M3 - Article
VL - 26
SP - 431
EP - 447
JO - Ethics & Behavior
JF - Ethics & Behavior
SN - 1050-8422
IS - 5
ER -