Investigating Staff Views on Plagiarism in Transnational Higher Education

Abstract

The views on plagiarism of teaching staff working at four Australian universities operating in Singapore were investigated through a survey and interviews. This was carried out through analysis of their responses to six different plagiarism scenarios, of their replies to open-ended questions and of interview comments. Although staff were found to have a good understanding of the different cases of plagiarism, nearly half of them indicated that they would accept up to 15% of plagiarized material, with 30% of them willing to accept 20% or more. This indicates the need for an improved staff education on plagiarism. Furthermore, the majority of the teaching staff expected their students to plagiarize, implying the need for a more effective teacher -student interaction. A set of interactive measures between faculty, teaching staff and students is recommended to ensure and sustain an environment of academic integrity within the transnational higher education sector.

Plagiranje u digitalnom dobu

“…Više je razloga zbog kojih studenti pribjegavaju plagiranju, među kojima se mogu izdvojiti jednostavan pristup materijalima i mogućnost njihovog brzog kopiranja, neiskustvo u pisanju radova, nepoznavanje i nerazumijevanje pravila etičkog ponašanja, niska razina akademske pismenosti, lijenost, loše upravljanje vremenom, pritisak da se ispoštuju rokovi, želja za postizanjem boljeg uspjeha, visoka očekivanja nastavnika ili, s druge strane, njihova nemarnost i popustljivost te nedovoljno čvrst odnos obrazovnog sustava prema plagiranju (cf. Devlin and Gray, 2007;Babaii and Nejadghanbar, 2017;Palmer, 2021). Uzimajući u obzir navedeno, pojedini autori razlikuju nenamjerno plagiranje i ono koje je počinjeno s namjerom (Ibegbulam and Eze, 2015).…”