Understand cheating behaviours
There are many reasons that students might engage in dishonest or fraudulent behaviour, and academic integrity breaches may be intentional or inadvertent.
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Why do students cheat? View
Smith, Emerson & Mauldin (2021)’s recent work on the dark triad of traits and fraud diamond in relation to accessing websites and online help provides additional information to existing research from Bretag and others (Bretag et al. 2018; Bretal et al, 2019a; Bretag et al, 2019b), that can be used to inform our approach to influencing student behaviours.
Click on the hotspots in the image below to learn more about common behaviours and the type of thinking that influences their behaviour. The accordion beneath the image explains how to influence decision-making processes at each stage.