How Well do Canadian Distance Education Students Understand Plagiarism?

This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly more than half of 420 psychology students correctly selected plagiarised phras...

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Autor principal:	Cheryl Ann Kier
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Publicado:	Athabasca University Press 2014
Materias:	Distance education plagiarism Special aspects of education LC8-6691
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:29a9e9ff05584df380aff5ff17974a1f2021-12-02T11:19:49ZHow Well do Canadian Distance Education Students Understand Plagiarism?1492-3831https://doaj.org/article/29a9e9ff05584df380aff5ff17974a1f2014-02-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1684/2767https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly more than half of 420 psychology students correctly selected plagiarised phrases from four multiple choice questions. Only a minority was able to rewrite a phrase properly in their own words. A more diverse sample of university students also had difficulty recognizing plagiarised passages from multiple choice options. The poor ability of students to identify plagiarised passages may suggest poor understanding of the concept. Students may benefit from training to improve their understanding of plagiarism.Cheryl Ann Kier Athabasca University PressarticleDistance educationplagiarismSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 15, Iss 1 (2014)
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description	This project ascertains how well students taking online, distance education courses at a Canadian university recognize plagiarised material and how well they paraphrase. It also assesses the types of errors made. Slightly more than half of 420 psychology students correctly selected plagiarised phrases from four multiple choice questions. Only a minority was able to rewrite a phrase properly in their own words. A more diverse sample of university students also had difficulty recognizing plagiarised passages from multiple choice options. The poor ability of students to identify plagiarised passages may suggest poor understanding of the concept. Students may benefit from training to improve their understanding of plagiarism.
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How Well do Canadian Distance Education Students Understand Plagiarism?

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