Main Findings
- Most students and professors suspected that academic fraud incidents had occurred, and slightly less than half of them were certain that this type of incidents had occurred;
- Both students and professors recognized the most common forms of plagiarism, for example, not referencing a source or a student presenting someone else’s work as his or her own;
- Almost 30% of students admitted having omitted to reference a source correctly and 7% of them admitted having presented a work that was not theirs, in the past year;
- Students’ perception of fraud was directly correlated to the amount of unreferenced material; for instance, when only a few sentenced were copied from an Internet site or from printed material, students were less likely to consider this a serious offence;
- Both students and professors estimated that they were well aware of academic fraud policies and regulations;
- Both students and professors estimated that the current inquiry process on academic fraud cases was fair and non-biased;
- Professors believed that dishonest behaviours could be prevented by conducting academic integrity education and awareness campaigns, changing teaching material, as well as monitoring and detecting these types of behaviour.
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2009.08.06
