Yüksek Öğretimde Öğrencilerin Kopya Çekme Motivasyonu

In higher education, cheating has appeared as an important problem. It has increasingly led to

the inaccurate results obtained from the measurements related to the students’ knowledge and

skill gains and to the significant deviations to reach to the objectives of the education

strategies to be implicated. The aim of the study is to determine the students’ attitude and

behaviors related to their cheating motivations at Faculty of Agriculture, Ataturk University.

The results of the study showed that positivist approach, unfair competition effects on the

students’ success and the external negative motivation sources were the most important

factors preventing their cheating motivation. On the other hand, the results also showed that

the most factors stimulating cheating motivation were the external and internal positive

motivation, not suitable of exam type, appropriateness of the physical facilities and the exam

organizers’ illegal attitude and behaviors. Positive motivation sources could be drawn up by

regulations and statutes to create a negative impact by eliminating the most appropriate

factors motivating the students to cheat at the exam, and thus it could be made more affective

evaluations for their knowledge and skills gains and selected the most appropriate education

strategies.