Patterns of Academic Integrity Definitions among BA Romanian Students’. The Impact of Rising Enrolments
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21754797 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Emilia ȘERCAN, B Voicu (0000-0002-2221-2499) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Issue | 78 |
| Pages | 87-106 |
| Publication date | 2022-09-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Revista de Cercetare si Interventie Sociala (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1583-3410 • E-ISSN: 1584-5397 |
| Publisher | Expert Projects (PUBLISHER • RO) |
| DOI | 10.33788/rcis.78.6 |
| OpenAlex | W4296371452 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 17 |
In light of the increasing interest in academic integrity, this paper investigates how students from three major Romanian universities conceive academic integrity. We build up an argument of dependency of such definitions on existing academic culture, and on how fast universities, faculties, or fields of study grow with respect to number of enrolled students. The findings reveal that definitions of academic integrity offered by BA students were largely confused, with some of the students being completely unable to focus on the topic. The variation in definitions depends on the size and recent history of the department and university. The universities that experienced recent growths were found have students less likely to focus on academic integrity. The department size plays a buffering role through the inertia of organizational culture and increase in department size leads to better knowledge of academic integrity. Notably, no or very little impact was found across the fields of study in the patterns of defining academic integrity. Policy makers and academic leaders should therefore be aware that in fast-growing universities, academic integrity needs careful instillment among students, and promoting it in terms of knowledge might be rewarding for the health of the organization
Academic integrity · Engineering ethics · Higher education · Learning development · Medical education · Organizational culture · Political science · Public relations · Research integrity · Romanian · Scientific integrity · Structural integrity · Academic integrity and plagiarism · Computer Science · Engineering · Ethics in Business and Education · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Politicians, Intellectuals, and Academic Integrity in Romania
Civil society and control of corruption
In Other (People's) Words
The Guttenberg Plagiarism Scandal
Personality characteristics, parent behaviors, and sex of subject in relation to cheating
Academic Dishonesty
Term Paper "Mills," Academic Plagiarism, and State Regulation
Maximally Maintained Inequality
Scholastic Dishonesty Among Undergraduates in Differing Systems of Social Control
Situational Ethics and College Student Cheating
Effectively Maintained Inequality
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |