ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: A STUDY OF FACTORS THAT IMPACT ON THIS BEHAVIOR IN STUDENTS OF ACCOUNTING SCIENCES.
Academic dishonesty. Perception of students. Behavior.
The purpose of this research project is to analyze the factors that impact on the occurrence of academic dishonesty in students of the undergraduate course in Accounting Sciences in Natal / RN, who obtained the best performance in the National Student Performance Examination. We will verify factors that impact the occurrence of academic dishonesty as costs, benefits and means of detection for this type of behavior. Regarding the methodological aspects, two instruments will be used to collect the data, the first one will be a questionnaire with questions about the demographic profile and evaluation of the students' perception of dishonesty, and the second instrument will be the arithmetic matrix experiment, composed of twenty matrices, where the academic dishonesty of the students will be verified, since there is only a solution for two matrices, in case the student affirms that he solved three matrices, will already be considered as dishonest. The population will be composed of students enrolled in the accounting sciences course of four higher education institutions located in the city of Natal / RN, only a few classes will be selected to compose the sample, considering that the second research instrument will need to reward students, being this reward given in points in the discipline that are applied the instruments. To determine the factors that impact on the probability of existence of dishonesty, a probit regression model will be estimated, where the dependent variable will be the result obtained in the application of the arithmetic matrix experiment and the independent ones will be: age, gender, religiosity, parental education , work, academic achievement, fear, accepting academic dishonesty, policies of educational institutions, witnessing another student being caught, being a witness, and being asked to act dishonestly by another colleague.