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Assessment of The Nature of Cheating by Business Students at Rocky University

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    Page 1 of 7 Assessment of The Nature of Cheating by Business Students at Rocky University Conduct a statistical analysis to assess the prevalence of cheating among business students at Rocky University. Based on a survey of 90 students, analyze the proportions of students involved in various types of academic dishonesty, including copying content from the Internet, copying answers on exams, and collaborating on individual projects. Develop 95% confidence intervals for these proportions for both male and female students, and overall. Additionally, conduct a hypothesis test to determine if the proportion of business students at Rocky University involved in cheating is different from the proportion at other institutions. Based on your analysis, provide recommendations to the dean on strategies to reduce cheating. Your response should be at least 1,500 words in length.

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    Page 2 of 7 Introduction: To assess the nature of cheating by business students in their activities related to academic work a survey was conducted at Rocky University . 90 students were selected at random and asked them the following questions. Did you copy an y content from Internet to complete your academic work? Did you copy anything from others on an Exam to get better grade ? Did you c ollaborate with anybody to complete Individual Project /s? Response of all the above questions was taken in the form of either “YES” or “NO”. Among the 90 students sampled, 39 ( 43% ) were males and 51 (57 % ) were females. The collected data was tabulated using Excel and stored for statistical analysis. To answer the following questions of the dean of student affairs in Rocky University this data need to be analyzed. What are the estimated values of the proportions of committing each type of cheating category and their confidence limits? What is the estimated value of the proportion of committing some type of cheating and its confidence limits? Is the overall proportion of cheating is less than or more than that of all business students elsewhere? Knowing these facts, dean can have a broad idea about these cheating patterns and device some strategies to minimize them. That is the main objective of this study.

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