Global Essay Mills Survey: Is Student Cheating Related to the National Economy?
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43110%2F19%3A43915798" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43110/19:43915798 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/EP.26.1.3286290" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/EP.26.1.3286290</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/EP.26.1.3286290" target="_blank" >10.2143/EP.26.1.3286290</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Global Essay Mills Survey: Is Student Cheating Related to the National Economy?
Original language description
The Global Essay Mills Survey (GEMS) is an international project focused on dishonest behaviour among university students. This behaviour and student cheating are becoming more and more frequent in the academic environment. Some authors are even talking about an epidemic. There are many kinds of cheating, which differs in many ways - using crib sheets, copying, using unauthorised aids, and so on. They can have some impact on students, or maybe universities, but some types of conduct can be much more severe (e.g. buying essays), because they may influence the country's economy. Here the question arises: Is students cheating related to the national economy? This contribution compares percentages of student cheating in six countries in three continents (Australia, Czech Republic, Chile, Romania, Serbia, and Sweden) and links them to selected macroeconomic indicators. The percentages of confessed cheaters were obtained from the GEMS survey, and they were processed in GRETL software together with available data of economic indicators of selected countries. There are significant differences between these six countries from the cultural, economic, legal and educational point of view, thus providing a sufficient basis for comparison. Based on the anonymous responses from GEMS, it was found that the percentage of cheating respondents is positively correlated to the unemployment rate and overall corruption, and negatively correlated to GDP per capita and minimum wage.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50902 - Social sciences, interdisciplinary
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ethical Perspectives
ISSN
1370-0049
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
26
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
BE - BELGIUM
Number of pages
28
Pages from-to
91-118
UT code for WoS article
000488819600005
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85070887650