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Measuring Chinese Engineering Students' Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Plagiarism

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ICEEL '18: Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education and E-Learning

Pages 109 - 112

https://doi.org/10.1145/3291078.3291101

Published: 05 November 2018 Publication History

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This article reports on a disciplinary study of Chinese university students' perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism in the context of Chinese educational background. A sample of 119 engineering undergraduates rated their (dis)agreement with 26 items using a five-point Likert scale. Qualitative and quantitative analyses revealed that Chinese engineering students tended to hold a much stronger stance against plagiarism than their foreign counterparts did. They were inclined to resort to external factors to clarify their perceptions to elements that aggravate plagiarism, rather than to internal factors such as subjective inclination, and the perceptions of plagiarism. Due to insufficient knowledge of and training on plagiarism, they were inclined to justify junior students' original and soft plagiarism, and held a weaker stance against severity and penalty for plagiarism.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/s10639-023-11967-3

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ICEEL '18: Proceedings of the 2018 2nd International Conference on Education and E-Learning

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Eshet Y(2023)The plagiarism pandemic: Inspection of academic dishonesty during the COVID-19 outbreak using originality softwareEducation and Information Technologies10.1007/s10639-023-11967-329:3(3279-3299)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2023
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