Rebecca Silva (San Francisco State University): Publications - PhilPeople

San Francisco State University
Department of Philosophy

Undergraduate

San Francisco, California, United States of America

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A Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Perceptions of Academic Dishonesty Among Fifth-Grade Students
with Kimberly Gilbert, Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin, and Nicole Levine

Ethics and Behavior 21 (6). 2011.

A study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of academic dishonesty in fifth-grade students. Two methods were used to gather data: a sorting task, which was used to indirectly assess the students' perceptions, and a rating scale task, which was used to externally validate the results of the sorting task. Results of the multidimensional scaling analysis yielded two dimensions, the first being tests/homework and papers, and the second, more ambiguous appearing to differentiate based on ser…Read more
A study was conducted to investigate the perceptions of academic dishonesty in fifth-grade students. Two methods were used to gather data: a sorting task, which was used to indirectly assess the students' perceptions, and a rating scale task, which was used to externally validate the results of the sorting task. Results of the multidimensional scaling analysis yielded two dimensions, the first being tests/homework and papers, and the second, more ambiguous appearing to differentiate based on seriousness

Deception, Misc