Open AccessAssessing Domestic vs. International Student Perceptions and Attitudes of Plagiarism
Author(s) -
Daniel Adrian Doss,
Russ Henley,
Balakrishna Gokaraju,
David H. McElreath,
Hilliard Lackey,
Qiuqi Hong,
Lauren E. Miller
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of international students
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.47
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2166-3750
pISSN - 2162-3104
DOI - 10.32674/jis.v6i2.370
Subject(s) - likert scale , cheating , perception , psychology , neutrality , institution , higher education , academic integrity , social psychology , pedagogy , sociology , social science , political science , law , developmental psychology , neuroscience
The authors examined students’ perceptions of plagiarism from a higher education teaching institution within the U.S. southeast. This study employed a five-point Likert-scale to examine differences of perceptions between domestic versus international students. Statistically significant outcomes were observed regarding the notions that plagiarism is a necessary evil and that plagiarism is illegal. Respectively, the analyses of the means showed that respondents tended toward disagreement concerning the former notion and neutrality regarding the latter notion.