TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring Chinese engineering students' perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism
AU - Su, Min
AU - Ma, Xin
AU - Rui, Xiaosong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2018/11/5
Y1 - 2018/11/5
N2 - This article reports on a disciplinary study of Chinese university students' perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism in the context of Chinese educational background. A sample of 119 engineering undergraduates rated their (dis)agreement with 26 items using a five-point Likert scale. Qualitative and quantitative analyses revealed that Chinese engineering students tended to hold a much stronger stance against plagiarism than their foreign counterparts did. They were inclined to resort to external factors to clarify their perceptions to elements that aggravate plagiarism, rather than to internal factors such as subjective inclination, and the perceptions of plagiarism. Due to insufficient knowledge of and training on plagiarism, they were inclined to justify junior students' original and soft plagiarism, and held a weaker stance against severity and penalty for plagiarism.
AB - This article reports on a disciplinary study of Chinese university students' perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism in the context of Chinese educational background. A sample of 119 engineering undergraduates rated their (dis)agreement with 26 items using a five-point Likert scale. Qualitative and quantitative analyses revealed that Chinese engineering students tended to hold a much stronger stance against plagiarism than their foreign counterparts did. They were inclined to resort to external factors to clarify their perceptions to elements that aggravate plagiarism, rather than to internal factors such as subjective inclination, and the perceptions of plagiarism. Due to insufficient knowledge of and training on plagiarism, they were inclined to justify junior students' original and soft plagiarism, and held a weaker stance against severity and penalty for plagiarism.
KW - Attitude
KW - Chinese engineering students
KW - Disciplinary intertextual practice
KW - Plagiarism
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85061228805
U2 - 10.1145/3291078.3291101
DO - 10.1145/3291078.3291101
M3 - 会议稿件
AN - SCOPUS:85061228805
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
SP - 109
EP - 112
BT - 2018 2nd International Conference on Education and E-Learning, ICEEL 2018
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2nd International Conference on Education and E-Learning, ICEEL 2018
Y2 - 5 November 2018 through 7 November 2018
ER -