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Competitiveness and solidarity of high school students
Karasaridu, Klára ; Hájek, Martin (advisor) ; Spalová, Barbora (referee)
This master's thesis deals with competitiveness and solidarity among high school students. Students are required to have good results and achievements at school, which leads to competition among students to determine who is be the best. In addition, the class counts on cooperation and solidarity to function well as a group. These two phenomena can put pressure on students, and although they seem to be mutually exclusive, they are interconnected. This research focuses on these two elements in class relationships. I conducted qualitative semi- structured interviews. Due to the current pandemic situation, the interviews took place online. The main finding of the research is that competitiveness does not manifest itself in the usual way for students: it is not required by their surroundings, but they rather motivate themselves to compete with each other. Solidarity is reflected in how they work together and how they understand each other. For students it is important to have friendly relationships in the class, which makes them want to cooperate more (classmates with whom the students do not have such friendly relationships are not selected for cooperation to such an extent). Relationships are built not only through help and cooperation in the classroom, as expected, but above all through friendships...
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Enhancing Academic Integrity
Höklová, Veronika
Academic Integrity is a serious topic that has been recently very much discussed. The most of the research that has been conducted comes mainly from English speaking countries. Literature research explains the notion of Academic Integrity and its forms that are most often violated. It also describes what changes can contribute to the fact that Academic Integrity is respected more. In the practical part I conducted a survey among Czech students for this research. The data I am describing in this thesis regard building Academic Integrity at Czech universities. I collected the total of 25O entries. Thanks to the questionnaire we can see how a student perceives the concept of Academic Integrity and what they have to say regarding this subject. In addition, we conducted a semi-structured questionnaire with eight academic staff members at the Faculty of Business Economics of Mendel University in Brno. This thesis shows us much more regarding the topic of Academic Integrity and how it is perceived. The last part analysed the current state at university and there is propose of a strategic plan for building Academic Integrity.
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Chovanie spotrebiteľa na trhu s technológiami umožňujúcimi neetické jednanie v oblasti vzdelávania
Hudáková, Alexandra
Technology is trying to make life easier for students today. Digitized study materi-als or online courses are just a small example of what modern era enable students. This thesis deals with technological impact on academic dishonesty. It points to the hi-tech sector of the Czech Republic, to the technology market that allows unethical behavior and to the use of these technologies by students. This thesis answers questions about who is a cheating student, how he cheats and what motivates him to do so. These are predominantly students aged 21-23, in the second year full-time study, with good financial situation. Gender or field of studies does not influ-ence the unethical behavior of the student. The thesis outlines recommendations that schools could take to prevent students from academic dishonesty. As unethical behavior begins in schools but should continue in the working environment, the thesis also points to possible solutions for employers who are not interested in unethically acting employees.
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The Truth Behind the Lies: The Experiment
Harutyunyan, Mikayel ; Chytilová, Julie (advisor) ; Matoušek, Jindřich (referee)
The Truth Behind The Lies: The Experiment. Abstract The following thesis presents an economic experiment exploring the patterns of cheating behaviors among secondary school students. The students filled in the Big Five and the Dark Triad personality inventories, for which they were rewarded. The payoff in sweets was determined by a die roll. Since the outcomes of the die throw were known only to the subjects, they could decide whether to report the real outcome of the die roll or deceive. Subsequent analysis showed that a certain fraction of participants cheated, but some of them claimed a non-maximal payoff. We also find the appeal to honesty ineffective in reducing the cheating rate. Additionally, we find positive correlation between narcissism, extraversion and cheating, while openness to experience, neuroticism and Morality, a facet of agreeableness, covary negatively with dishonesty. Individuals with poor academic ability cheat less, while subjects who perform better at the Cognitive Reflection Test appear to deceive more. Furthermore, indicators of "unstable" family environment (divorced or unemployed parents) are positively associated with cheating, whilst the effect of a more affluent family background is equivocal. Ultimately, females seem to forgo the opportunity of cheating to a full extent and...
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Fenomén podvádění na školách
Mrtvá, Denisa
The topic of Bachelor Dissertation is the cheating of student at secondary and grammar schools. We all know that cheating at school is a long time matter. Question is, how the teacher should solve this situation. Because every teacher experiences this phenomenon once in a while. The aim of theoretical part is to find out what the cheating is, to explain the cheating concepts and also the types of cheating. Second question is: who cheats? We know that the student of secondary and grammar schools are adolescents, it means, and that I will describe psychological development of adolescents. Next question is to find out what is the students reason to study (or not study). It means to explain the concept "motivation". The last aim of theoretical part is to describe the role of teacher. It means what teacher can do for students´ higher motivation to study and for better school attendance. It is motivation of students, their evaluation or punishment. Practical part is about how the teachers solve this negative effects. It is special analysis of questionnaires. Results will be described graphically. The main aims of this is to find out the behaviour of teachers in this situation, but also to recommend to future teachers how to behave in situation when the student is cheating.
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Elektronické podvádění na středních školách
Kaprálová, Monika
This bachelor's thesis is primarily focused on cheating of high school students during exams by using electronic devices. Thanks to fast development of technologies and its accessibility among students and school, this trend of cheating during exams is nowadays becoming more popular. The first part of this thesis is a theoretical part in which we focus on characteristics of high school students, their motivation and also we define methods of cheating with electronic devices during exams. Here we also provide information about detection and prevention of this type of cheating. Information for the first part retrieved from the specialized literature will be analyzed and processed by using methods including comparison, synthesis and notes processing. The second part of this thesis is a practical part where we will reveal the main reasons of cheating during the exam and the most common types of exam cheating with electronic devices. In order to get the most accurate results, data from questionnaires answered by students from the Technical High School in Brno will be analyzed. Based on the findings, there will be provided conclusion as well as recommendations for pedagogical practice.
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Psychological aspects of honesty and cheating
Tefelnerová, Pavla ; Höschlová, Eva (advisor) ; Trojanová, Hana (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on psychological aspects of honesty and cheating linking the pieces of knowledge based on not only psychological, but also economical and pedagogical research. The attention of the first chapter is devoted to introduction of the issue outlining the borders between honest and dishonest behaviour and defining several streams of opinions maintaining the attitudes of particular researchers. The studies provided prove that cheating is not regarded as pathology of few individuals, but rather the way of behaviour typical of every single human throughout even more tense circumstances. Furthermore, the second chapter of the thesis deals with personal, situational and demographical factors influencingthe circumstances under which people incline to dishonest behaviour as well as its extent and the ways of cheating. The insight into the mechanism of cheating and its possible ways of influencing is proposed. Hence the results presented in this part of the thesis are based on different methods of survey (questionnaires and experiments), the third chapter is concerned with discussions of their both advantages and limits relating to the particular focus of the entire thesis. The theoretical part is enclosed with overview of the ethical aspects of the survey of honesty and cheating....
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Glitch and its social aspects in video game culture
Švelch, Jan ; Macek, Jakub (advisor) ; Reifová, Irena (referee)
Glitch is becoming an important topic both in popular culture and academia. In 2012, Disney cast a glitch as a major character in its movie homage to arcade video games Wreck-It Ralph. More and more studies about glitch are emerging across various disciplines, from media studies to aesthetics. So far, researchers were focusing mostly on theoretical and technological aspects of the glitch. This Master's thesis aims to analyze the "everyday" glitch and the roles it plays in the video game culture, conducting a qualitative content analysis of online discussion forums of three recent hit video games: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Mass Effect 3 and Star Wars: The Old Republic. The first part of the thesis reviews the literature connected to the glitch and explains its connection to similar scientific concepts: error, noise and emergence. It also introduces different aspects and roles of the glitch, ranging from cheating and metagaming to humor and aberrant use. The second part consists of the analysis of online discussion forums concerning the player definition of the glitch, the process of finding and sharing the glitch and about the main aspects of the glitch from the viewpoint of active participants in online discussions: glitch as an error or a feature, patching the glitch, cheating, metagaming and humor. As...
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