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Secondary school student's cheating behaviour in mathematics classes

The goal of this research is to examine students’ cheating behaviour in traditional mathematics classes with regard to age and gender and to the type of school they attend. The research was conducted on a sample of convenience that consisted of 456 secondary school students from the Zagreb County, Karlovac County and The City of Zagreb County. The testing results on the scale of active cheating in mathemetics classes show a statistically significant difference in favour of female students, whereas there was not a statistically significant difference on the scale of passive cheating. It was shown that there is not a statistically significant difference when it comes to the prevalence of cheating in mathematics classes between students in lower grades of secondary school and students in higher grades. Gymnasium and vocational school students do not differ statistically significantly on the active cheating index, whereas a statistically significant difference was determined on the passive cheating index, whereby gymnasium students engage in passive forms of cheating to a greater extent than vocational school students in their mathematics classes in a traditional classroom.

mathematics classes, prevalence of cheating, ethical code

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