Students Cheating Behaviors: The Influence of Fraud Triangle
Abstract
The role of educational institution is not only for transferring knowledge but also
building up character and self-integrity values; it is critical issue in the workplace or
business environment. Increasing academic fraud by student becomes the research
background. Research method used questionnaire survey to find out students attitude
in fraud triangle framework. The research purposes to get empirical result aligned
with the research focus: Are incentives, opportunities and rationalization influence on
students cheating behaviors? The result shows that only incentive variable has
significant value to students cheating behaviors. The role of institution is a major
factor to detect and prevent fraud. Understanding student behavior related to academic
fraud will be beneficial for the institution to conduct an evaluation of the learning
process in the academic community.