Posted: November 11th, 2015
Quantitative Business Analysis Project
During the global recession of 2008 and 2009, there were many accusations of
unethical behavior by Wall Street executives, financial managers, and other
corporate officers. At that time, an article appeared suggesting that part of the
reason for such unethical business behavior may stem from the fact that cheating
has become more prevalent among business students. The article reported that 86% of
business students admitted to cheating at some time during their academic career as
compared to 77% of non-business students.
Cheating has been a concern of the dean of the College of Business for several years. Some faculty members in the college believe that
cheating is more widespread at universities, while other
faculty members think that cheating is not a major problem at the college. To
resolve some of these issues, the dean commissioned a study to assess the current
ethical behavior of business students. As part of this study, an anonymous
exit survey was administered to a sample of 90 business students from this year’s
graduating class. Responses to the following questions were used to obtain data
regarding three types of cheating.
During your time at university, did you ever present work copied off the internet as
your own?
____ Yes
____ No
During your time at university, did you ever copy answers off another student’s exam?
____ Yes
____ No
During your time at university, did you ever collaborate with other students on projects
that were supposed to be completed individually?
____ Yes
____ No
Any student who answered yes to one or more of these questions was considered to
have been involved in some type of cheating. The complete data set is in the file
named university, linked at the bottom of the page.
Managerial Report
Prepare a report (see below) for the dean of the college that summarizes your
assessment of the nature of cheating by business students at University. Be
sure to include the following seven (7) items in your report.
To summarize the data, compute the proportion of all students, the proportion of
all male students, and the proportion of all female students who
presented work copied off the internet as their own
copied answers off another student’s exam
collaborated with other students on projects that were supposed to be completed
individually.
Then comment on your findings.
Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion
of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved
in some type of cheating.
Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion
of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved
in copying off the internet.
Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion
of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved
in copying off another’s exam.
Develop 95% confidence intervals for the proportion of all students, the proportion
of all male students, and the proportion of all female students who were involved
in collaborating on an individual project.
Conduct a hypothesis test (using either the p-value approach or the critical value
approach) to determine if the proportion of all business students at University who were not involved in some type of cheating is less than that of all
business students elsewhere. Use α = 0.05. Do not forget to include the correctly
worded hypotheses.
What advice would you give to the dean based upon your analysis of the data? Focus
your advice on answering the following: What is the magnitude of the issue? What
would you recommend for both students and faculty? What is the potential impact on
relationships with the business community and what would you recommend? How can
this study be improved?
Write a report that adheres to the Written Assignment Requirements under the
heading “Expectations for Written Assignments” found in the Guide to Writing and
APA Requirements. As with all written assignments, you should have in-text
citations and a reference page. An example paper is provided in the MTH410 Guide to
Writing with Statistics, linked at the bottom of the page.
Your report must contain the following:
A title page in APA style.
An introduction that summarizes the problem.
The body of the paper should answer the questions posed in the problem by
communicating the results of your analysis. Include results of calculations, as
well as charts and graphs, where appropriate.
A conclusion paragraph that addresses your findings and what you have determined
from the data and your analysis.
In-text citations from a minimum of three sources in addition to your textbook.
A reference page.
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