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Tayfun, Is There a Relationship Between Grade Average Point and Students 
 
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Table 3: Rotated Component Matrix 
Component 
 
  
1 2 3 4  5  6  7 8 9 
A student can look at the other 
student’s paper in examination 
,676 ,039 -,056 -,042 ,007 -,143 ,025 ,194 -,074 
A student can change whose 
examination paper with other 
students 
,783 -,053 -,130 -,064  ,073  ,002  ,171 -,076 ,117 
A student can have an exam in 
place of the other student  
,734 -,175 -,122 -,047  ,033  ,131  ,185 -,219 ,151 
A student can give other 
student’s homework study for 
himself 
,833 ,034 -,033 ,004 ,070 ,063 -,021 -,120 -,095 
A student can look at his lessons 
notes without any permission 
,811 -,039 ,033 -,096 -,004  ,024  ,080 -,018 ,015 
A student can give the out-of-
date homework studies as the 
new studies 
,741 ,098 ,045 -,029 ,091  ,028 -,129 ,004 -,091 
A student can give whose study 
to other student to use  
,636 ,202 -,049 ,023 ,071 ,058 -,198 ,219 -,059 
I think that cheating is an 
offence  
-,045 -,049 ,133  ,829  -,001  ,132  ,008  ,020 -,045 
I think that cheating is not ethic   -,091 -,022 ,064 ,879 ,015 ,127 ,020 ,055 -,020 
I think that cheating is a debility   -,077 ,087 ,133 ,787 ,086 ,037 ,037 -,019 ,006 
I think supervisors are tolerant 
against cheater s 
,082 ,008 ,150 ,089  ,502  ,315 -,120 ,100 -,331 
Who gets the high grade in 
examination can achieve it by 
cheating  
,217  ,002 -,049 -,065  ,269  ,536  ,023  ,115 -,105 
A student who doesn’t cheat is 
teased by other students  
,105 -,164 -,134 ,101 ,215 ,627 -,026 ,137 ,228 
I think that cheating students act 
unjustly to non copier student  
-,115 ,139 ,224 ,326 ,035 ,626 -,025 -,119 -,136 
Cheating students regard their 
behaviors as a talent  
-,053 ,073 ,216 ,146 ,029 ,703 ,048 -,050 -,030 
The cheating is a disrespect 
towards the academic staff  
-,249 ,038  ,284  ,371  -,035  ,306  ,171 -,253 ,201 
I think that supervisors and 
teachers treat unfairly in 
cheating situations 
,128 ,110 -,019 ,026 ,769 ,052 -,015 ,206 ,068 
I think that school management 
treats unfairly in the 
determination of a penalty in 
cheating situations  
,111 ,052 -,017 ,067 ,831 ,120 ,090 ,060 ,008 
Cheating is becoming an 
important problem in the school  ,080 -,098 ,130 -,029  ,609  ,098  ,089 -,282 ,117 
Strongly punishing the cheaters 
can prevent cheating  
-,102 -,168 ,607 ,091 ,119 ,087 ,177 -,006 ,008 
Administering exams in less 
crowded classrooms can 
prevent cheating  
-,086 ,144  ,780  ,124  ,046  -,001  ,016 -,024 ,058 
Administering exams with more 
supervisors can prevent 
cheating  
-,093 ,107 ,809 ,106 -,025 ,076 -,016 ,046 ,063 
Changing the question format 
can prevent the cheating  
-,072 ,164 ,267 -,093 ,107 -,096 -,057 -,033 ,733 
Asking questions by different 
groups can prevent cheating  
-,021 ,004 ,545 ,100 -,060 ,127  ,036 ,144 ,501 

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bilig, Spring / 2009,  number  49 
 
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The attitude of academic staff in 
the lesson can be a reason of 
the cheating  
-,081 ,547 -,087 ,134  ,048  ,102  ,227  ,318  ,312 
The attitudes and behavior of 
supervisors in the exams can be 
a reason for the cheating  
-,102 ,367 ,224 ,087 ,086 ,123 ,300 ,444 ,027 
The difficulty of the course can 
be a reason for cheating  
,035 ,784 ,079 -,039 ,012  ,015  ,026 ,219 ,122 
Asking difficult questions can be 
a reason for cheating  
,112 ,786 ,001 -,011 -,010 ,008  ,090 -,070 ,066 
The tolerance of the 
management against cheating 
can be a reason for cheating  
,038 ,043 ,215 -,060 ,243  ,166  ,388 ,480 -,019 
The fear of not passing 
examination can be a reason for 
cheating  
,004 ,778 ,075 -,043 -,004 ,011  ,125 -,012 -,060 
Believing that it is impossible to 
pass the examination by 
studying much can be a reason 
for cheating 
-,039 ,351 ,140 -,059 -,125 ,176  ,546 ,226 ,036 
Memorization-based questions 
can be a reason for cheating  
,024 ,731 -,031 ,063  ,057 -,056 ,081 -,118 -,085 
The part time works of students 
can be a reason for cheating  
,062 ,235 -,068 ,082 ,008 ,008 ,673 -,011 ,010 
The willing of being respected 
as a successful student by the 
others  
,045 ,204 ,298 ,058  ,188 -,166 ,603 -,016 -,067 
Extraction Method: Principal Component Analysis. Rotation Method: Quartimax with Kaiser 
Normalization. A Rotation Converged in 6 Iterations. 
Nine factors were defined according to their relationship with variables 
which are; Factor 1: The point of view of the students about cheating, Factor 
2: The lesson based reasons for cheating, Factor 3: How can be prevented 
the cheating?, Factor 4: The ethic and offence aspects of the cheating, Factor 
5: The attitudes of the management of the school and teachers against 
cheating, Factor 6: The opinions about the cheater, Factor 7: The student- 
based reasons that cause cheating, Factor 8: The management and 
supervisor-based reasons that cause the cheating, Factor 9: The role of the 
questions format to prevent the cheating. The factors and their explained 
variables are given end of the paper. 
Results and Discussion 
To examine the relationship between the grade point average and factors, 
the Pearson correlation coefficient was used. According to the result of the 
test displayed in table 4, all Pearson correlation coefficient are close to zero 
(p>,05), therefore no relationship between average grade and factor scores 
was found at the level of 5 % significance (α=0,05). The cheating perception 
of the students doesn’t change in terms of their grade point average. In other 
words, average grade is not a determinant factor to evaluate students’ 
cheating behavior. A student who has high grade point average can tend to 
cheat more than those with low grade point average. 
 

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