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Academic Integrity and Cheating Culture Survey

Measures how common cheating really is, which behaviors students consider acceptable, and what actually drives the decision to cut corners — for schools and departments auditing their academic integrity culture. An AI follow-up interview reconstructs the reasoning behind a specific incident instead of settling for a guilt-laden yes/no.

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15 questions · ~8 min
Q01
Message

Thanks for taking a few minutes on this one. Your answers are anonymous and won't be tied to your name or ID — we're trying to understand academic pressure and integrity honestly, not catch anyone. About 6-7 minutes.

Q02
Multiple Choice

In the past academic year, how often have you used a method you knew broke your school's academic integrity rules (e.g., copying answers, unauthorized notes, using AI tools without disclosure) on graded work?

  • Never
  • Once
  • A few times
  • Regularly
  • Prefer not to answer
Q03
MatrixRequired

How would you classify each of the following, if a student did it?

5 rows × 4 columns
  • Copying homework answers from a classmate
  • Using AI to write an essay without disclosing it
  • Bringing prohibited notes into a closed-book exam
  • Sharing exam questions with students who haven't taken it yet
  • Paraphrasing a source without citing it
Columns: Not cheating · Minor violation · Serious violation · Not sure
Q04
Opinion ScaleRequired

How much pressure do you feel to earn top grades?

Scale: 1 – 10
Min:No pressure at allMax:Extreme pressure
Q05
Best–Worst Trade-off (MaxDiff)Required

Which of these plays the biggest role in why students cheat, and which the smallest?

  • Fear of failing the course
  • Not enough time to prepare
  • Grades feel more important than learning
  • Unclear rules about what's allowed
  • Belief that everyone else does it too
  • Pressure from parents or family
  • Coursework harder than what was taught
  • Belief that penalties are rarely enforced
Pick best & worst per setBest:Biggest reason students cheatWorst:Smallest reason students cheat
Q06
Point AllocationRequired

If your school had 100 points to spend on reducing cheating, how would you split them across these approaches?

  • Clearer rules with concrete examples
  • Smaller classes or more proctoring
  • Harsher penalties for violations
  • Redesigning assignments to be harder to copy
  • Teaching better time-management skills
  • Anonymous ways to report cheating
Allocate 100 points
Q07
Opinion ScaleRequired

How confident are you that your school enforces its academic integrity policy consistently, regardless of who's involved?

Scale: 1 – 5
Min:Not at all confidentMax:Extremely confident
Q08
Multiple ChoiceRequired

Have you personally witnessed another student cheat in the last semester?

  • Yes, multiple times
  • Yes, once
  • No
  • Not sure
Q09
Multiple Choice

The last time you saw (or strongly suspected) cheating, what did you do?

  • Reported it to an instructor or official
  • Talked to the student directly
  • Mentioned it to friends but no one official
  • Ignored it
  • Wasn't sure what to do
  • This hasn't happened to me
Q10
AI Interview

Reconstruct one concrete, recent moment tied to cheating from the respondent's own experience — either something they did, something they witnessed, or a moment they were tempted and didn't. Anchor on what led up to it, what they were thinking at the decision point, and what happened afterward (caught, not caught, guilt, no reaction). If they deny any personal involvement or witnessing, redirect to how they believe their peers rationalize it and what would have to change for them to report it themselves.

Q11
Message

That's the last question about behavior — a few quick background questions next, all optional.

Q12
Multiple Choice

What's your current year or grade level?

  • Middle school
  • High school - underclassman
  • High school - upperclassman
  • Undergraduate
  • Graduate
  • Prefer not to say
Q13
Short Text

What's your major or primary field of study? (Feel free to leave this blank.)

Q14
Multiple Choice

How do you describe your gender?

  • Woman
  • Man
  • Non-binary
  • Prefer to self-describe
  • Prefer not to say
Q15
Message

Thank you for your honesty — this kind of question is hard to answer truthfully, and we appreciate it. Your responses will be combined with others to shape clearer policies and less punitive, more effective ways to support academic integrity.

What’s included

  • AI follow-ups

    Adaptive probes on open-ended answers that pull out detail a static form would miss.

  • Attention checks

    Built-in safeguards against rushed answers and low-quality respondents.

  • AI-drafted copy

    Wording, ordering, and branching written by the AI — tuned to your research goal.

  • Auto report

    Themes, quotes, and a plain-English summary write themselves once responses come in.

How it compares

We reviewed the closest templates from other survey tools. Here’s what they do well — and where this template goes further.

Why this template

  • Includes an AI follow-up interview that reconstructs the concrete reasoning behind a specific cheating incident, rather than stopping at a guilt-laden yes/no
  • Combines a matrix classifying which behaviors count as cheating with MaxDiff and constant-sum questions to rank and weight the actual drivers of cheating
  • Captures both perceived pressure (opinion scale) and perceived enforcement fairness (opinion scale) so integrity culture and stress can be cross-analyzed
  • Uses conversational conversational message framing to set anonymity expectations up front and closes with a debrief message, softening a sensitive topic while still collecting year, major, and gender for segmentation

Jotform

School Cheating Survey Form Template

A ready-to-field, drag-and-drop form template focused on cheating behaviors, built on Jotform's general-purpose form builder. It's a static questionnaire meant for quick deployment and embedding rather than a research instrument designed around behavioral analysis. Good for a lightweight, low-cost rollout, but it doesn't probe the reasoning behind any single incident.

What it does well

  • Fast to customize and deploy via drag-and-drop form builder
  • Broad integrations with other apps/workflows typical of Jotform
  • Likely offers a free tier for basic use

Where it falls short

  • Static question set with no adaptive AI follow-up to probe individual incidents
  • No voice AI interview option or guided screen-share tasks
  • No automated per-response quality scoring or transparent prompt methodology

QuestionPro

School Cheating Survey Questions + Sample Questionnaire Template

A structured sample questionnaire on school cheating, positioned within QuestionPro's broader survey and research platform, which typically adds reporting/analytics on top of the template. It's a fielding-ready set of questions, but it is a fixed questionnaire rather than an interview that adapts to each respondent's answers. Best suited for standard incidence tracking rather than reconstructing why a specific incident occurred.

What it does well

  • Sample questionnaire built with established survey research practices
  • Backed by QuestionPro's analytics and reporting tooling
  • Likely supports common quantitative question types (scales, multiple choice) for benchmarking

Where it falls short

  • No adaptive AI follow-up interview to reconstruct the story behind a specific cheating incident
  • No voice AI interview or guided task/screen-share capability
  • No published transparent prompt methodology or automated quality scoring per response

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