A scale development study to measure academic dishonesty tendency of university students

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develope an Likert type “Akademic Dishonesty Tendency Scale” (ADTS) for University Students. The results of analyses shows that ADTS has four factors. First factor has 5; second factor has 7; third factor has 4 and fourth factor has 6 items. Factors are called as “tendency towards cheating”, “dishonesty tendency at studies as homework, project, etc. – common”, “dishonesty tendency at resrearch and process of write up” and “dishonesty tendency towards reference”.  The construct validity of ADTS is tested by Confirmatory Factor Analysis. Conbach alpha reliability coefficents of four factor and whole scale is 0,71; 0,821; 0,785; 0,776 and 0,90 respectively. Test-re test reliability coefficient is 0,88. The final form of ADTS is adequate for measuring the academic dishonesty tendency levels of University Students.