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Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students

OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to examine academic cheating behaviors and perceived online effectiveness on academic performance during the period of COVID-19 among schools, colleges, and university students in Pakistan. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional research design was used in the current stud...

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Autores principales: Malik, Aamir Abbas, Hassan, Mehdi, Rizwan, Muhammad, Mushtaque, Iqra, Lak, Tauqeer Ahmed, Hussain, Mussarat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36935968
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124095
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author Malik, Aamir Abbas
Hassan, Mehdi
Rizwan, Muhammad
Mushtaque, Iqra
Lak, Tauqeer Ahmed
Hussain, Mussarat
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Hassan, Mehdi
Rizwan, Muhammad
Mushtaque, Iqra
Lak, Tauqeer Ahmed
Hussain, Mussarat
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description OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to examine academic cheating behaviors and perceived online effectiveness on academic performance during the period of COVID-19 among schools, colleges, and university students in Pakistan. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional research design was used in the current study. Convenience sampling was used to collect the data. The study included a total sample of N = 8,590 students, with males (n = 3,270, 38%) and females (n = 5,320, 61%) participating. The data was divided into three categories: high schools (n = 1,098, 12.7%), colleges (n = 4,742, 55.2%), and universities (n = 2,570, 32.1%). School students had an average age of (M = 15, SD = 4.65), college students had an average age of (M = 20, SD = 5.64), and university students had an average age of (M = 24, SD = 5.01). RESULT: The results indicated that 60% of students admitted to cheating during online exams most of the time; 30% of students admitted to cheating at least once during an online exam. The study found that students (from high school, college, and university) obtained higher grades in online exams as compared to physical exams. Furthermore, significant gender differences were found on the scales of online learning effectiveness in school, college, and university students (t = 2.3*, p = 0.05 vs. t = 4.32**, p = 0.000 vs. t = −3.3*, p = 0.04). Similarly, on the scale of academic performance, students have significant gender differences. Multivariate regression analysis confirms that students’ 26% academic performance was increased due to cheating (F (2, 8,588) = 16.24, p = 0.000). Students believe online learning is effective because academic grades are easily obtained. CONCLUSION: Cheating is more common and easier in online courses, according to more than half of respondents, and they take advantage of this. Academicians are heavily encouraged to develop morality and ethics in their students so that their institutions can produce ethical professionals for the educational community.
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spelling pubmed-100194622023-03-17 Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students Malik, Aamir Abbas Hassan, Mehdi Rizwan, Muhammad Mushtaque, Iqra Lak, Tauqeer Ahmed Hussain, Mussarat Front Psychol Psychology OBJECTIVE: The study was conducted to examine academic cheating behaviors and perceived online effectiveness on academic performance during the period of COVID-19 among schools, colleges, and university students in Pakistan. METHODOLOGY: A cross-sectional research design was used in the current study. Convenience sampling was used to collect the data. The study included a total sample of N = 8,590 students, with males (n = 3,270, 38%) and females (n = 5,320, 61%) participating. The data was divided into three categories: high schools (n = 1,098, 12.7%), colleges (n = 4,742, 55.2%), and universities (n = 2,570, 32.1%). School students had an average age of (M = 15, SD = 4.65), college students had an average age of (M = 20, SD = 5.64), and university students had an average age of (M = 24, SD = 5.01). RESULT: The results indicated that 60% of students admitted to cheating during online exams most of the time; 30% of students admitted to cheating at least once during an online exam. The study found that students (from high school, college, and university) obtained higher grades in online exams as compared to physical exams. Furthermore, significant gender differences were found on the scales of online learning effectiveness in school, college, and university students (t = 2.3*, p = 0.05 vs. t = 4.32**, p = 0.000 vs. t = −3.3*, p = 0.04). Similarly, on the scale of academic performance, students have significant gender differences. Multivariate regression analysis confirms that students’ 26% academic performance was increased due to cheating (F (2, 8,588) = 16.24, p = 0.000). Students believe online learning is effective because academic grades are easily obtained. CONCLUSION: Cheating is more common and easier in online courses, according to more than half of respondents, and they take advantage of this. Academicians are heavily encouraged to develop morality and ethics in their students so that their institutions can produce ethical professionals for the educational community. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10019462/ /pubmed/36935968 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124095 Text en Copyright © 2023 Malik, Hassan, Rizwan, Mushtaque, Lak and Hussain. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Hassan, Mehdi
Rizwan, Muhammad
Mushtaque, Iqra
Lak, Tauqeer Ahmed
Hussain, Mussarat
Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title_full Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title_fullStr Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title_full_unstemmed Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title_short Impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the COVID-19 pandemic among Pakistani students
title_sort impact of academic cheating and perceived online learning effectiveness on academic performance during the covid-19 pandemic among pakistani students
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10019462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36935968
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1124095
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