Academic dishonesty in today's education system : theoretical framework

Abstract EN

Academic dishonesty is a widespread and troubling phenomenon in higher education, which encompasses behaviors such as cheating, plagiarism, and falsification of data or citations.

Whatever the method employed, academic dishonesty harms the learning experience and gives cheaters an unfair advantage over those who abide by the rules.

Although academic dishonesty has several negative effects, students continue to cheat for many reasons such as: unclear guidelines, pressure, being overworked, and lack of effort.

This paper aims to study the concept of academic dishonesty by answering to the following question “what is exactly academic dishonesty in higher education system and how to prevent it? ” This study is based on descriptive method.

The findings of the research are that academic dishonesty causes social and moral problems at individual and society level, therefore faculties and instructors should for example enforce strict rules and revise the existing regulation in line with the sophistication of recent misconduct strategies.