The ethics and politics of policing plagiarism: a qualitative study of faculty views on student plagiarism and Turnitin<sup>®</sup>

Bruton, Samuel V.; Childers, Dan

doi:10.1080/02602938.2015.1008981

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“…Undoubtedly, the changing terrain of higher education in the UK makes this ideal increasingly hard to achieve. Some of our respondents stated that they felt ill-equipped to deal with troubling situations due to a lack of support from their institutions, a factor also identified by other research (see Bruton & Childers, 2016). Nevertheless, developing a shared conception of an ethical environment would require an institution-wide 'buy-in'.…”

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“…This research found that academics could hold complicated and often contrasting views on defining their role in supporting an ethical environment in assessment (Bruton & Childers, ). The most influential contextual variable was found to be their views on overall responsibility.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…As one of our respondents explained: ‘ … it's about the wider flourishing and growth of the academic community and all of its members ’. Despite such views which might link the ecology of individual HEIs to a broader ethical environment, sceptics might suggest that too close an alignment of the university with the overall values of society merely causes staff and students to enter into ‘Faustian bargains’ (Bruton & Childers, , p.326), where ethics are influenced by accountability‐driven educational aims.…”

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Examining the ethical environment in higher education

Richardson¹,

Healy

2019

British Educational Res J

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Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) across the world have found themselves faced with new challenges on issues of ethics. Much of this has been centred on issues of assessment: plagiarism, buying essays, sharing/lending of previously passed work and the stealing of marked/returned work of others. Institutions still treat academic misconduct as largely a behavioural difficulty rather than an issue of ethics (or education), suggesting that academia places a far greater emphasis on combating new forms of dishonesty than it does on encouraging ethical habits and a healthy ethical environment. To date, the majority of research in this area has examined these forms of academic misconduct from the point of view of the student and/or the university, with the perspective of academics receiving very limited attention. Our hypothesis is that academics are perhaps best placed to provide the education needed to create and sustain an ethical environment, and we argue that being ‘ethically aware’ is a critical factor in the development of academic competence for all parties. This study adds to existing research in three ways: firstly, by highlighting the importance of an overall framework for an ethical environment within HEIs; secondly, by suggesting an ecological model of key parties (the university, students and academics) with responsibility for this environment in assessment; and thirdly, by including new evidence (generated by a survey of academics) to extend our understanding of their views on these issues.

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Richardson¹,

Healy

2019

British Educational Res J

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“…Turnitin and many other plagiarism detection services have been used by many schools and institutions to this day, so does the research on its use. (See Bruton & Childers, 2016;Özbek, 2016;Ali, 2013;Graham-Matheson & Starr, 2013;Razera, 2011;Batane, 2010). This paper, however, focused on exploring how EFL students in Indonesia understand the concept of plagiarism, how they avoid plagiarism, and how they perceive online plagiarism detection service.…”

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Students Versus Plagiarism: How is Online Plagiarism Detection Service Perceived?

Ramadhana

2016

Ethical Lingua

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The development of information and communication technology plays a considerable role for students in writing their theses. The positive side, it will help the students to find countless number of academic sources ranging from journal articles to complete theses written by other scholars. On the other hand, it will also create a chance for the students to commit plagiarism easier. Unoriginal writing and plagiarism in this digital era can be detected in the digital way by using plagiarism detection software. This paper elaborates how students understand the concept of plagiarism, how they avoid plagiarism, and how they perceive online plagiarism detection service. The data was taken from interviews to MA students during their period of thesis writing. This paper concludes several important outlines to be learning guidelines for the students in improving their academic writing.

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“…Gullifer and Tyson's (2014) study concluded that only half of the 3405 students in an Australian university had read the plagiarism policy and had confusion apparent about which behavior counted as plagiarism. In their study of faculty members' view on student plagiarism, Bruton and Childers (2016) found that if the student violated the plagiarism rules unintentionally faculty members did not penalize the student that did not coincide with the ones written in the syllabi about the penalty of plagiarism.…”

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A Review of Literature: Plagiarism in the Papers of Turkish Context

Gökmenoğlu¹

2017

HES

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The present review attempted to address the direction of plagiarism literature in Turkish context. 15 studies conducted in Turkey on plagiarism were analyzed through content analysis. The context, purposes, methodological issues and results of researching plagiarism were categorized. The findings of this review indicated that although plagiarism's raising legal and ethical concerns is acknowledged by Turkish researchers, there are limited numbers of studies exploring the plagiarism perceptions, views, situations and reasons of Turkish graduate students and professors.

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The ethics and politics of policing plagiarism: a qualitative study of faculty views on student plagiarism and Turnitin^®

Cited by 48 publications

References 41 publications

Examining the ethical environment in higher education

Examining the ethical environment in higher education

Students Versus Plagiarism: How is Online Plagiarism Detection Service Perceived?

A Review of Literature: Plagiarism in the Papers of Turkish Context

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Examining the ethical environment in higher education

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Students Versus Plagiarism: How is Online Plagiarism Detection Service Perceived?

A Review of Literature: Plagiarism in the Papers of Turkish Context

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