Bayview University
Introduction
Due to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, a large number of Wall Street executives, financial managers and other corporate officers were accused of their unethical behavior. At the same time, some people pointed that cheating had become more prevalent among business students. An article reported that 56% of business students admitted that they had cheated when they were studying in school, but only 47% of nonbusiness students admitted to cheating when they were students. The same type of debate occurred in the Bayview University as well, so the dean decided to run a test to see what the results would look like. In this case, 90 students were chosen to answer the quiz which was used to obtain results regarding three types of cheating. The quiz provided 3 simple “yes or no” questions, and the rule was that any student who answered yes to 1 or more of these questions was considered to have been involved in some type of cheating. The goal of this report was to help the dean find out whether the cheating was a major problem in the Bayview University and to give the dean some advice after the data analysis.
Methodology and Hypothesis
The methodology of this report was using descriptive statistics to summarize the data and comments. The descriptive statistics tables were provided as follows. (The sample data were provided in Appendix)
Table 1: quiz statistics results for all students All | Internet | Exam | Collaborated | cheater | Y | 23 | 16 | 23 | 48 | N | 67 | 74 | 67 | 42 | Total | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | P(Y) | 25.6% | 17.8% | 25.6% | 53% | P(N) | 74.4% | 82.2% | 74.4% | 47% |
From the table 1, we can see that there were 48 students that admitted cheating in at least 1 type of those options, and the proportion of cheating in this case was 53%. Among those 3 options, both option 1 and option 3 had the same proportion of cheating which was 25.6%. The lowest proportion of cheating option was option 2, the proportion of which was
Due to the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, a large number of Wall Street executives, financial managers and other corporate officers were accused of their unethical behavior. At the same time, some people pointed that cheating had become more prevalent among business students. An article reported that 56% of business students admitted that they had cheated when they were studying in school, but only 47% of nonbusiness students admitted to cheating when they were students. The same type of debate occurred in the Bayview University as well, so the dean decided to run a test to see what the results would look like. In this case, 90 students were chosen to answer the quiz which was used to obtain results regarding three types of cheating. The quiz provided 3 simple “yes or no” questions, and the rule was that any student who answered yes to 1 or more of these questions was considered to have been involved in some type of cheating. The goal of this report was to help the dean find out whether the cheating was a major problem in the Bayview University and to give the dean some advice after the data analysis.
Methodology and Hypothesis
The methodology of this report was using descriptive statistics to summarize the data and comments. The descriptive statistics tables were provided as follows. (The sample data were provided in Appendix)
Table 1: quiz statistics results for all students All | Internet | Exam | Collaborated | cheater | Y | 23 | 16 | 23 | 48 | N | 67 | 74 | 67 | 42 | Total | 90 | 90 | 90 | 90 | P(Y) | 25.6% | 17.8% | 25.6% | 53% | P(N) | 74.4% | 82.2% | 74.4% | 47% |
From the table 1, we can see that there were 48 students that admitted cheating in at least 1 type of those options, and the proportion of cheating in this case was 53%. Among those 3 options, both option 1 and option 3 had the same proportion of cheating which was 25.6%. The lowest proportion of cheating option was option 2, the proportion of which was