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Davoodifard, Mahshad – Studies in Applied Linguistics & TESOL, 2022
While investigating plagiarism is relevant in different fields, verification of original authorship has also attracted attention in academia and L2 learning and assessment contexts. Generally associated with academic misconduct and dishonesty, plagiarism in writing can take many shapes and be hard to detect. In addition to being a very…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Authors
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Rowland, Susan; Slade, Christine; Wong, Kai-Sheng; Whiting, Brooke – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2018
Academic integrity is important to universities and students must abide by codes of academic conduct around assessment. Students are, however, subject to multiple pressures around assessment, some of which can push them to cheat. Modern contract cheating websites are the fronts for sophisticated, commercial operations that offer individually…
Descriptors: Cheating, Web Sites, Ethics, Integrity
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Reyneke, Yolande; Shuttleworth, Christina Cornelia; Visagie, Retha Gertruida – Accounting Education, 2021
Teaching and assessment practices rapidly moved online as a result of the global coronavirus pandemic. Academic integrity is paramount for the credibility and reputation of educational institutions regardless of their teaching modality. Students commit plagiarism when they copy, borrow, or steal others' work, without properly acknowledging their…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Accounting, 21st Century Skills, Educational Technology
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Kermek, Dragutin; Novak, Matija – Informatics in Education, 2016
In programming courses there are various ways in which students attempt to cheat. The most commonly used method is copying source code from other students and making minimal changes in it, like renaming variable names. Several tools like Sherlock, JPlag and Moss have been devised to detect source code plagiarism. However, for larger student…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Programming, Assignments, Cheating
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Rubin, Beth – Journal on Excellence in College Teaching, 2018
Academic integrity is a critical issue in online courses, where students are removed from their instructors in time and space. This article presents a model describing the steps that academic leaders and administrators should follow to implement systems that support academic integrity in online courses. Rather than identifying vendors, which…
Descriptors: College Students, Integrity, Cheating, Online Courses
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Sutton, Anna; Taylor, David; Johnston, Carol – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2014
A clear understanding of how students view plagiarism is needed if the extensive efforts devoted to helping them engage in high-quality scholarship are to be worthwhile. There are a variety of views on this topic, but theoretical models to integrate the literature, take account of international differences and guide practitioners are limited.…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Familiarity, Models, Questionnaires
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Cavalcanti, Elmano Ramalho; Pires, Carlos Eduardo; Cavalcanti, Elmano Pontes; Pires, Vládia Freire – Informatics in Education, 2012
Text mining has been used for various purposes, such as document classification and extraction of domain-specific information from text. In this paper we present a study in which text mining methodology and algorithms were properly employed for academic dishonesty (cheating) detection and evaluation on open-ended college exams, based on document…
Descriptors: Cheating, College Students, Student Behavior, Classification
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Choo, Teh Eng (Elaine); Paull, Megan – Issues in Educational Research, 2013
The incidence of plagiarism, according to the literature, is increasing. But why do students plagiarise and why the increase? Is it due to laziness, opportunity, ignorance, fear or ambivalence? Or do they know that there is little chance of any significant penalty? The literature suggests that all of these apply. Given this, are universities and,…
Descriptors: Incidence, Plagiarism, College Students, College Faculty
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Hulsart, Robyn; McCarthy, Victoria – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2011
A simple Internet search of "academic dishonesty" reveals a continuing conversation among individuals within the academic community who are asking what academic dishonesty is, who is cheating, why students are cheating, and how we stop them from cheating. This article addresses these questions and provides a model for creating a culture of trust…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Cheating, Integrity, Ethics
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Farisi, Mohammad Imam – Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2013
Today, in the era of open access to digital-based information and communication, one of the biggest challenges in higher education to realize moral education and to build academic culture and integrity is the emergence of academic dishonesty behaviors among academic members. The paper describes academic dishonesty behaviors in Distance Higher…
Descriptors: Ethics, Distance Education, Higher Education, Models
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Daly, C.; Horgan, J. M. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
While much work has been done on identifying and measuring the incidence of plagiarism in coursework, very little is known about the plagiarists themselves, and it is this issue that we address in this article. A model, developed to determine the factors that lead students to plagiarize, indicates that males are more likely to cheat than females,…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Models, Gender Differences
Gold, Stephanie – Technology & Learning, 2006
The day is past when educators can legitimately claim ignorance of digital copyright and fair use laws. The ed tech community has addressed digital copyright and fair use a lot in recent years. There is still, however, the ongoing challenge of keeping up with ever-changing statutes as technology itself matures, not to mention the necessity of…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Technology Uses in Education, Compliance (Legal), Plagiarism