Academic Dishonesty Among Business Students: A Descriptive Study of Plagiarism Behavior

Hussein, Norashikin; Rusdi, Syezreen Dalina; Mohamad, Siti Sarah

doi:10.1007/978-981-287-664-5_50

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“… 34 , 35 although as stated earlier, plagiarism is also found in countries with English as native language. However, it is obvious that in English for Academic Purpose (EAP) group countries 36 , where English is taught as the 2 nd language, this problem is much worse. Most experts in our study stated that teaching in early ages can improve the chance to learn English better.…”

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Comprehensive Survey of Plagiarism in Iran

Rokni

Bizhani

Habibzadeh³

et al. 2020

Pak J Med Sci

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Background and Objective: We conducted this study to assess the prevalence of plagiarism and to shed light on some dark aspects of this issue. The main objectives included to find out the etiology, prevalence, and detection of various forms plagiarism. Methods: In this Cross-sectional study we used a questionnaire, face-to-face interview, analyzing the present notifications and codes, websites, and literature review. The current study was conducted throughout Iran from 2017-2018. Those associated with scientific journalism, academic staffs, and authors were interviewed or asked to fill out a prepared questionnaire. Results: Nine hundred seventy nine questionnaires were circulated. Out of this 706 (72.1%) were completed and returned. Those with a master degree were most cooperative in filling out the questionnaires (36.4%); followed by Assistant Professors (29.6%). About 74.1% of respondents, had not participated in any educational workshops on plagiarism (P<0.001) while 10.8% had not heard anything about plagiarism (P<0.001). As regards correct reply as for definition and detecting plagiarism; 91.1%, 40.8%, 48.4% and 57.9% could reply correctly (P<0.001). Forty-one-point one percent of the participants believed that reprimand would be the best punishment. The percentage of plagiarism as per people associated in journal administration, was 22.9%; based on experts’ opinions, it was 30.0%; and based on analysis of some journals published in Iran, it was 25.5%. Conclusion: We found a noticeable prevalence of plagiarism in Iran. Many factors are involved in this misconduct; most important being the need for academic staff and students to publish e more papers regardless of their quality to meet some of the academic requirements. Considering the high rank of Iran in terms of scientific growth worldwide, it is expected from the regulatory authorities to monitor all aspects of scientific misconducts in medical journalism. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3456 How to cite this:Rokni MB, Bizhani N, Habibzadeh F, Farhud DD, Mohammadi N, Alizadeh A, et al. Comprehensive Survey of Plagiarism in Iran. Pak J Med Sci. 2020;36(7):---------. doi: https://doi.org/10.12669/pjms.36.7.3456 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Comprehensive Survey of Plagiarism in Iran

Rokni

Bizhani

Habibzadeh³

et al. 2020

Pak J Med Sci

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“…These factors are still relevant: a more recent study by Eret and Ok (2014) observed that the tendency to plagiarize was increased with the arrival of the Internet, and points out as main reasons for plagiarism the limitations of time, excessive workloads and a high difficulty of the proposed tasks. Another recent study by Hussein, Rusdi and Mohamad (2016) found that students were fully aware of what plagiarism was and that it is not appropriate to use it. A study by Kauffman and Young (2015) analyzed how easy the access to copy and paste tools are, and the presentation of tasks, influenced attitudes towards plagiarism.…”

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Plagiarism, Internet and Academic Success at the University

Díaz

Duart

Hinojosa-Becerra

2018

J. New Approaches Educ. Res.

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In this work, we determined, the level of incidence of the use of technologies on academic success and the incidence of interaction and experience on the level of plagiarism of university students. A sample of 10,952 students from 31 face-to-face universities in Ecuador was created. Students were classified based on their experience level, level of interaction with teachers and classmates, and the use they do with technology for academic activities. The results showed that the level of experience does not affect academic success, but does have an incidence on plagiarism levels that increase as this experience increases. Plagiarism reaches higher levels when level of experience, family income and hours of connection per day increases. Academic performance depends on the number of hours that students seek information and the number of academic videos they watch. Also, plagiarism tends to decrease as the student makes better use of technology for their academic activities.

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