Abstract:

The education contains a long process. During this long process negative behaviors can be seen in students along with positive ones. One of these undesirable behaviors is “academic dishonesty” that comprises behaviors as cheating and plagiarism. It is accepted that fine arts teacher candidates are different from other teaching programs candidates because of their artistic moods and do not give importance to the lessons that are based on written evaluation as much as art lessons that are based on artistic performance. In this study has been quest an answer for question of “Is there any difference between academic dishonesty tendencies of fine arts teacher candidates and classroom teacher candidates?”. The 2nd grade students (n=44+33+60=137) that study in the Music and Art Education programs and Classroom Education program of Karadeniz Technical University, constitute the universe of the study. This research is a survey. As a data collection tool, for determine of students academic dishonesty tendencies, “Academic Dishonesty Tendencies Scale” that has been improved by Eminoğlu (2009) has been used. Obtained data has been statistically analyzed by SPSS software program. At the end of study, the difference of academic dishonesty tendencies between fine arts teacher candidates and classroom teacher candidates have been determined, compared and some suggestions have been made according to the research results..

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