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Using Structural Equation Modeling to Validate the Theory of Planned Behavior as a Model for Predicting Student Cheating
- The Review of Higher Education
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 32, Number 4, Summer 2009
- pp. 441-468
- 10.1353/rhe.0.0080
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The purpose of this paper is to validate the use of a modified Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) for predicting undergraduate student cheating. Specifically, we administered a survey assessing how the TPB relates to cheating along with a measure of moral reasoning (DIT- 2) to 527 undergraduate students across three institutions; and analyzed the data using structural equation modeling. Results confirmed using the modified TPB as a model for predicting student cheating and the importance of understanding how cheating varies for students in different periods of moral reasoning development, namely moral consolidation and moral transition.