An evaluation of student’s academic intergrity by their perception on academic environment and dishonesty behaviours

Abstract

This study investigated undergraduate students’ perception and dishonesty behaviors, by which academic integrity was evaluated in thecontext of Vietnam. The study was conducted with a survey of 208 undergraduate students from year 1 to year 4 in a faculty of a university in Southern Vietnam. Descriptive statistic data was used to present students’ perception ofthe academic environment, academic integrity and dishonesty behaviors. Kendall’s Tau, Sommer’s and Goodmann & Kruskal’s gamma were used to test the relationship of the academic environment, demographic factors, student’s perception and behaviors in terms of academic integrity. The students reported that dishonesty behaviors were serious, although regulations on academic integrity weresaid to be strict. Results showed that academic dishonesty behaviors of undergraduate students wereassociated with their low perception ofthese behaviors. The university should pay more attention to improve the academic environment in terms of integrity.

Keywords

• liêm chính học thuật
• môi trường học thuật
• sinh viên đại học
• không trung thực học thuật