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Purpose

The purpose of this study is to examine how Information and Communication

Technology can help in attaining academic integrity. It also meant to figure out the commonality

of academic misconduct and the motives that lead to the switch to e-dishonesty (Rabahi, 2019).

Methods

The researcher chose 120 students at random from four classes across two universities.

Each participant was given a survey that was collected one week after it was distributed. The

questionnaire contained three sections. The first section focused on personal information, the

second section tested their ideas about technology in research and asked them if they ever used

technology for cheating and plagiarism, and the third section raised their awareness about using

academic integrity (Rabahi, 2019).

Findings

The findings revealed that most students used technology in cheating and plagiarism. The

findings also revealed that universities can achieve integrity if the learners are aware of the

positive side of Information and Communication Technology in academic research (Rabahi,

2019). I found these results interesting because of the number of students that are aware of how

wrong academic dishonesty is but still admitted that they do it. The fact of the matter is that

technology has made is much easier to cheat and plagiarize that is has become such a normalized

activity. Since I teach younger children, academic dishonesty is not something that I have a

major issue with in my classroom, especially when it comes to using technology. However, these

results encourage me to teach my students about the importance of academic integrity and show

them that it is not okay to cheat or plagiarize even if it is convenient or if other people are doing
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it. Since they are so young, I would first have to explain what exactly it is, then go into why it is

wrong.
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References

Rabahi, H. (2019). The Use of Information and Communication Technology in Academic

Research: Is It Possible to Realize Academic Integrity? Arab World English

Journal, 10(4), 88–100.

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