ACADEMIC DISHONESTY AMONG INDONESIAN COLLEGE STUDENT IN ADVENTIST INSTITUTION PREVALENCE, MOTIVES AND VIEWS ON 2015-2016 SCHOOL YEAR

Abstract

Academic  dishonesty  in education  institution is one of the major concerns  for decades. In this paper the prevalence and severity of various types of dishonest  behaviors were discover based on experience and perception of Indonesian and Filipino Students in Adventist University of the Philippines.

Self- insight  and reason for engaging  in a type of academic dishonesty  also collected to identify certain

motives. Findings explain that student let others friend copy their work as an effort to achieve good grades (75%), Student also usually copied few sentences without mention the author (72.5%) and the last student worked  on assignment with others student when the teacher assigned it for personal work (62.2%). The student consider academic dishonesty is bad, but that is one of the option to reach the good grade as product of several factors, such as teacher and students incompetent, unfavorable environment, and lack of implementation for academic dishonesty polices.