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Undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students' perceptions of plagiarism and academic honesty
Greg Ryan1, Helen Bonanno, Ines Krass
1Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Sydney, Australia. gryan@pharm.usyd.edu.au
Objectives:
To assess undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students' perceptions of plagiarism and academic honesty.
Methods:
A questionnaire was administered to undergraduate and postgraduate pharmacy students to determine their levels of awareness of university policy concerning academic honesty; attitudes to plagiarism by rating the acceptability of a range of plagiarizing and cheating practices; and choice of appropriate penalties for a first and second occurrence. The choice of behaviors in response to a scenario about the preparation of a reading-based written assignment and the strategies that students would be prepared to use in order to submit the assignment on time were also assessed.
Results:
Findings indicated widespread deficiencies in student knowledge of, and attitudes towards, plagiarism. Students did not perceive plagiarism as a serious issue and the use of inappropriate strategies for sourcing and acknowledging material was common.
Conclusions:
The study highlights the importance of achieving a balance among the 3 dimensions of plagiarism management: prevention, detection and penalty.
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