Internet-Triggered Academic Dishonesty Behavior and Influencing Factors of College Students in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Wen-Chuan Hsiao, 蕭文涓
• Other Authors: Hsiu-Ling Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/14949734274944407532

碩士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 數位學習與教育研究所 === 100 === The purpose of the study was to investigate the extent of involvement of Taiwan’s college students in Internet-Triggered Academic Dishonesty (shorted in ITAD) practices, and to question the conditions that lead to ITAD. Data were collected from 1,609 students through Bulletin Board System of PTT. After the reliability and validity conditions were met, two exploratory factor analyses were conducted: one presented the TYPES OF ITAD: plagiarism, low in critical thinking, fraudulence, and unethical information exchange, and the other presented the REASONS OF ITAD: assignment factor, social factor, Internet factor, knowledge factor, and teacher factor. Results indicated that students who hold a mastery app roach goal and high in Internet metacognition conduct less ITAD behavior. There was also a complex interrelationship between ITAD and gender, type of educational institutes, maturity of students, frequency of internet usage, and college type. Results showed that males were prone to conduct more ITAD behavior compared with females. Students in public universities were less likely to conduct ITAD behavior than those in private vocational universities. Freshman and sophomore undergraduates were more likely to err than graduate students. The more time students spent on the Internet, the more possible they fell into the trap of ITAD. Significant differences in ITAD were also observed among colleges investigated. These results provided practitioners and policymakers with some suggestions to enhance college students’ academic integrity.