Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
İnsan Bilimleri Dergisi, cilt.8, ss.302-312, 2011 (Hakemli Dergi)
In higher education, cheating has appeared as an important problem. It has increasingly led to
the inaccurate results obtained from the measurements related to the students’ knowledge and
skill gains and to the significant deviations to reach to the objectives of the education
strategies to be implicated. The aim of the study is to determine the students’ attitude and
behaviors related to their cheating motivations at Faculty of Agriculture, Ataturk University.
The results of the study showed that positivist approach, unfair competition effects on the
students’ success and the external negative motivation sources were the most important
factors preventing their cheating motivation. On the other hand, the results also showed that
the most factors stimulating cheating motivation were the external and internal positive
motivation, not suitable of exam type, appropriateness of the physical facilities and the exam
organizers’ illegal attitude and behaviors. Positive motivation sources could be drawn up by
regulations and statutes to create a negative impact by eliminating the most appropriate
factors motivating the students to cheat at the exam, and thus it could be made more affective
evaluations for their knowledge and skills gains and selected the most appropriate education
strategies.