Student and Faculty Perspectives on Undergraduate Cheating Frequency and Severity

Yooneun Lee; Khalid Zouhri; Alexander Watson

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Conference: 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Location: Minneapolis, MN
Publication Date: August 23, 2022
Start Date: June 26, 2022
End Date: June 29, 2022
Conference Session: ETD - STEM Issues in ET II
Page Count: 12
DOI: 10.18260/1-2--40751
Permanent URL: https://peer.asee.org/40751
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Dr. Khalid Zouhri is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering technology in the Department of Engineering Management, Systems and Technology at the University of Dayton. Before joining the faculty at UD, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Higher College of Technology. Prior to that Dr. Zouhri was an adjunct professor at the University of New Haven while working in the aerospace industry. Dr. Zouhri has over a decade of experience in the aerospace industry beginning at Timco Aviation as an airframe structure mechanic. Following his time at Timco, he joined Pratt and Whitney as a test engineer for the F135 military engine STOVL and CTOL program for F35 Joint Strike Fighter and also worked for Radiall Aerospace in New Haven, CT. Dr. Zouhri received his B.S. in mechanical engineering from North Carolina A&T State University, MBA from Southern Connecticut State University and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University. Dr. Zouhri’s research interests include nanomaterials characterizations and testing, materials’ behavior at high temperature for a propulsion system, materials corrosion and prevention, non-destructive testing and analysis, nanomaterials behavior and electrochemical reactions for energy conversions devices, electron and phonon transport modeling and experiments, thermal fluid sciences application and analysis, bio-fluid mechanics application using particle image velocimetry (PIV) technique, and turbulence analysis, jets, bluff bodies, and airfoils.

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Abstract

Academic dishonesty has always been a pressing problem within post-secondary education. In recent years, it has been exacerbated due to the transition from face-to-face lectures to online learning and the rise of online platforms that sell academic services. These online education platforms offer an extensive range of services that spans from simple help on homework problems, to copies of exam questions with solutions, to egregious cases, such as contract cheating where a student contracts a third-party to complete an assignment, exam, or even entire semesters of work. In order to effectively combat these new methods of academic dishonesty, it is important to have a good grasp on the frequency, severity and types of cheating, yet the pandemic forcing universities to switch to remote classes has only made these types of cheating easier and harder to detect. There is potentially a discrepancy in the perceptions of cheating between faculty and students. To better understand potentially disparate perceptions of cheating, two concurrent surveys are developed, one for faculty and one for students. The goal is to examine perspectives of cheating or university honor code violations from both students and faculty. The results of the surveys are analyzed using both quantitative and qualitative methods to identify any significant discrepancies between the faculty and student responses. This analysis will help reveal the methods of cheating that are going unnoticed or unreported by faculty so that a focused effort can be made to combat academic dishonesty that is pervasive in the university.

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Lee, Y., & Zouhri, K., & Watson, A. (2022, August), Student and Faculty Perspectives on Undergraduate Cheating Frequency and Severity Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--40751