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 phra...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:b949480959214468bbb7e523fb8832442021-12-02T17:00:17ZHow well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?10.19173/irrodl.v15i1.16841492-3831https://doaj.org/article/b949480959214468bbb7e523fb8832442014-01-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/1684https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831 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. Cheryl Ann KierAthabasca University Pressarticledistance educationhigher educationonline learningSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 15, Iss 1 (2014)
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How well do Canadian distance education students understand plagiarism?
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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