Integrity of nursing students in Israel: An exploratory study.
Avi Kay1, Brian A Polin1, Shira Sadeh1
1Department of Business Management, Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel.
Nurse Education in Practice
|September 20, 2022
Summary
Academic dishonesty among nursing students did not consistently decrease with age or academic year. However, enabling others to cheat was more common than cheating on exams, suggesting a need to address cultural factors and evaluation methods to improve academic integrity.
Area of Science:
- Medical Education
- Nursing Education
- Academic Integrity Research
Background:
- Growing concerns about academic dishonesty in nursing programs.
- Lack of academic integrity compromises professional training assessment.
- Undermines public trust and patient safety.
Purpose of the Study:
- To differentiate the impact of age versus academic year on academic integrity.
- To investigate factors influencing academic dishonesty in nursing students.
- To address the ambiguity in existing research on age, academic year, and integrity.
Main Methods:
- Cross-sectional analysis of self-reported data from nursing students.
- Anonymous online questionnaire administered in Fall 2020.
- Data collected on academic integrity, age, academic year, and sex.
Main Results:
- No overall trend of decreased dishonesty with increased age or academic year.
- Advanced students reported lower honesty in work-based presentations.
- Enabling others to cheat was the most frequent form of dishonesty; exam cheating was least frequent.
Conclusions:
- Hypothesized decrease in dishonesty with age/academic year was not supported overall.
- Differences in cheating types suggest varying perceptions of severity (e.g., enabling others vs. exam cheating).
- Cultural factors and adaptation to novel evaluation methods may influence academic integrity in nursing students.
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