NENJI YILPET | senior staff writer
“I am hoping what will come out of this [evaluation of results] will be more discussion among the students. I want students to ask themselves, ‘What does academic integrity look like when the going gets tough?’” Vice Provost for Undergraduate Programs Diane Guido said.
APU students admitted to a higher percentage of individual academic dishonesty on some questions than the national survey results. The 2007 academic integrity results show that 41% of the APU surveyed respondents said they have worked with others when individual work is required.
“Some people will say that this does not matter because our students are more honest than other students and they will tell more of what they did,” Guido said. “It is not a cut and dry thing. My hope is that students will use these results to understand where we are and where we need to be.”
Thirty-five percent of the APU student respondents admitted to copying a few sentences from internet sources without footnoting, while national survey results was 32%. Although, in comparison to 2004 results, APU went from 45% to 35% in the 2007 results.
When asked how frequently they think cheating occurs during tests or exams at APU, only 16% of students and 19% of faculty said they believe it happens often or very often. This is lower than the national survey results of 24% students and 27% faculty agreeing with this statement.
The national academic integrity survey was administrated to APU students and faculty in 2004 and February 2007. The national comparison of the results is based on 17,000 students and 3,985 faculties at public and private schools in 06-07. 
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