Academic Counterproductive Behaviour
EducationReliability: alpha 0.853 sample items
About this scale
A multi-item measure of counterproductive behaviour in academic contexts — copying assignments, faking data, plagiarizing, and avoiding effort.
Sample item(s)
“I have copied parts of an assignment from another source without citation”
“I have used unauthorized notes during an exam”
“I have skipped class without a legitimate reason”
Reliability
Reported internal consistency: alpha 0.85. As a rule of thumb, Cronbach’s α ≥ .70 is considered acceptable, ≥ .80 good, and ≥ .90 excellent for established measures.
Notes
Pair with academic AI ethics.
Source & citation
Lucas, G. M., & Friedrich, J. (2005): Individual differences in workplace deviance and integrity as predictors of academic dishonesty. Ethics & Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 15–35.
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