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Investigation Into Practices, Reasons, Attitudes of Engineering Students Towards Cheating in Exams

Table 2:

No. Reasons Mean SD
1 Time pressure in the evaluation 2.04 1.015
2 Increased difficulty of evaluation 2.09 1.015
3 Ignorance, unpreparedness of students for assessment 2.09 1.099
4 Cheating as a common behaviour, acceptable among students 2.71 1.105
5 Passing exams 1.72 0.979
6 Helping a friend 2.07 0.826
7 Lack of interest in completing the task 2.67 1.179
8 Too much workload 2.03 1.009
9 Course content irrelevant/ unimportant for the exam 2.28 1.086
10 Encourage and facilitate cheating using technology and the Internet 2.85 1.081
11 Misunderstanding the issue of cheating 3.31 1.118
12 The pressure to get good grades 2.04 1.044
13 Tolerance of dishonest behaviour 2.84 1.065
14 Stress, fear of failure 2.05 0.993
15 High expectations from parents 2.11 1.076
16 Failure to apply penalties 2.92 1.128
17 Unimportant sanctions 3.04 1.160
18 Lack of study time due to employment 2.43 1.082
19 Laziness 2.27 1.284
20 The student simply cannot respond to the given tasks 2.63 1.116
21 Too many exams during the session 2.25 1.098
22 The difficulty of the course content 2.06 1.005
23 Poorly designed assessment tasks 2.67 0.974
24 Great temptation and ease of cheating 2.49 1.172
25 Ignorance of teachers 2.80 1.234
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