ArticleJournal of medicine and life2024
Reasons for academic cheating in a cohort of nursing students in Saudi Arabia: a cross-sectional study.
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- Balancing pressure and support: family influences on female students' educational choices and academic integrity in the UAE.Frontiers in sociology · 2026Article
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This cross-sectional study investigated the reasons behind academic cheating in a cohort of nursing students in Saudi Arabia. The study involved 482 nursing students from two government universities in Riyadh. We used a newly developed self-reported questionnaire called the Reasons for Cheating Scale (RCS) to collect data. The highest-scoring reasons for academic cheating in the study population included the desire to obtain high grades, encouragement from friends to cheat, and the perception that exams were too difficult. Male students scored significantly higher than female students for reasons such as not understanding the course material, unclear test questions and instructions, pressure from families to excel, difficulty of the course material, and ignorance of effective study methods (
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