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Jones, Michael; Sheridan, Lynnaire – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2015
Advances have been made in detecting and deterring the student plagiarism that has accompanied the uptake and development of the internet. Many authors from the late 1990s onwards grappled with plagiarism in the digital age, presenting articles that were provoking and established the foundation for strategies to address cyber plagiarism, including…
Descriptors: Cheating, Plagiarism, Student Behavior, Internet
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Kashian, Nicole; Cruz, Shannon M.; Jang, Jeong-woo; Silk, Kami J. – Journal of Academic Ethics, 2015
Plagiarism is a prevalent form of academic dishonesty in the undergraduate instructional context. Although students engage in plagiarism with some frequency, instructors often do little to help students understand the significance of plagiarism or to create assignments that reduce its likelihood. This study reports survey, coding, and TurnItIn…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Learning Activities, Ethics
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Skaar, Håvard – Literacy, 2015
In recent years, plagiarism has been on the increase across the Western world. This article identifies Internet access as a contributory cause of this trend and addresses the implications of readily available Internet sources for the teaching and assessment of writing in schools. The basis for the article is a previous study showing a wide…
Descriptors: Internet, Plagiarism, Ethics, Cheating
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den Ouden, Hanny; van Wijk, Carel – Business Communication Quarterly, 2011
Students write papers in many of their courses to improve their writing skills and to foster an active attitude toward learning. Every year, they hand in hundreds of papers for teachers to assess. This stream may get polluted in two ways: by simple copying from Internet sources and by the exchange of text fragments between students. These…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Plagiarism, Cheating
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Belter, Ronald W.; du Pre, Athena – Teaching of Psychology, 2009
This study evaluated how effective an online academic integrity module was at reducing the occurrence of plagiarism in a written assignment for a university course. In a preintervention comparison group, plagiarism was detected in 25.8% of papers submitted, compared with only 6.5% in the group that completed the academic integrity module. The…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Cheating, Integrity, Student Behavior
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Lee, Daniel E. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2009
Regrettably, cheating is widespread on all levels of our educational system. Effective monitoring and judicial review processes that ensure that students who cheat are subjected to appropriate disciplinary action are essential. However, policing is not enough. We must go beyond policing to change the culture of the classroom in ways that…
Descriptors: Discipline, Cheating, Court Litigation, Ethics
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Ellery, Karen – Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2008
Student plagiarism is a pervasive and increasing problem at all levels of study in tertiary institutions. This study attempted explicitly and implicitly to address issues of plagiarism within the broad context of an academic writing framework in tutorials in a first-year module at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. Despite these…
Descriptors: Plagiarism, Foreign Countries, Cheating, Undergraduate Students
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Chiesl, Newell – Quarterly Review of Distance Education, 2007
The Internet, coupled with technology, has enabled institutions of higher learning to offer online distance education classes to a worldwide student body at an increasing rate. In the next 5 years it is estimated that nearly 90% of universities will offer online classes. Unfortunately, the news is not all that good. Students are now cheating at an…
Descriptors: Cheating, Distance Education, Ethics, Student Behavior