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.