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

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Page1of7Assessment ofThe Nature of CheatingbyBusiness StudentsatRocky UniversityConduct a statistical analysis to assess the prevalence of cheating among business students at RockyUniversity. Based on a survey of 90 students, analyze the proportions of students involved in varioustypes 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 bothmale and female students, and overall. Additionally, conduct a hypothesis test to determine if theproportion of business students at Rocky University involved in cheating is different from the proportionat other institutions. Based on your analysis, provide recommendations to the dean on strategies to reducecheating. Your response should be at least 1,500 words in length.

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Page2of7Introduction:To assessthe nature of cheating by business studentsin their activities related to academic worka survey was conducted atRocky University.90 students were selected at random and askedthem the followingquestions.Did youcopyanycontent from Internet to complete your academic work?Did you copyanything from othersonan Exam to get better grade?Did you collaboratewith anybody to completeIndividual 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 thefollowing questionsof the dean of student affairs inRocky Universitythis data need to beanalyzed.What are the estimated values of the proportions ofcommittingeach type of cheating categoryand their confidence limits?What is the estimated value of the proportion of committing sometype of cheating and itsconfidence limits?Is the overall proportion of cheating is less than or more than that of all business studentselsewhere?Knowing these facts, dean can have a broad idea about these cheating patterns and device somestrategies to minimize them. That is the main objective of this study.

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