title: Attitudes of student nurses enrolled in e-learning course towards academic dishonesty: a descriptive-exploratory study.
abstract: The author investigated attitudes of nursing students enrolled in e-Learning towards academic dishonesty. The descriptive-exploratory design was used in the conduct of the study. Respondents were randomly selected 36 junior and senior nursing students. It revealed that nursing students perceived as neutral (mean = 2.77, mean = 3.17) in taking responsibility for promoting academic integrity in e-learning. The paraphrasing a sentence from internet source without referencing it (38.89%) got the most form of cheating. Female and level four (4) nursing students revealed as the most cheaters. The reasons not to cheat, nursing students considered punishment, and education or learning (91.67%) got the highest in ranks, and simply wrong (75%) got the lowest rank. Hence, there is a need to look on how to maintain academic honesty among nursing students in and out of the university with respect to e-learning as a means of teaching-learning method.
authors.affiliation: Benguet State University, La Trinidad, Benguet, Philippines.
authors.forename: Jude L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Tayaben
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction / Q000941:ethics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000941:ethics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D010679:Philippines; D015714:Plagiarism; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*