title: Changes over time in academic dishonesty at the collegiate level.
abstract: Recent assertions that collegiate cheating has risen dramatically have increased in frequency. We examine the possibility that these assertions are based on comparisons of studies of different behaviors with varied methodologies, and different opportunities to cheat. To assess the increase in cheating we identified a cheating behavior which had been empirically studied consistently from the early 1900s. When the percentages of students who cheated in these studies were compared across time periods, while controlling for methodological differences, no significant linear trend was found.
authors.affiliation: Department of Management and Marketing, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa 35487-0025, USA.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spiller
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Crown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004989:Ethics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009014:Morals; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012922:Social Change; D012945:Social Values; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D014481:United States