What motivates students to plagiarise?Academics indicate that they perceive the reasons for intentional plagiarism to include: laziness, greed for grades,deceitfulness, competitiveness, lack of time and apathy. However the list of reasons given by students themselves ismore extensive and includes: helping a friend, extenuating circumstances, peer pressure, fear of failure, “everybody doesit”, laziness and cost of education (Franklin-Stokes & Newstead, 1995).Further research by Park (2003) into this area suggests the following reasons for plagiarising amongst Australian students:1. Efficiency gain – a better grade in less time;2. Time management issues;3. Students’ personal values that may be influenced by social pressure – it’s okay to plagiarise;4. Defiance – a deliberate sign of dissent and/or objection to assessment tasks;5. Negative student attitudes towards teachers and/or assessment tasks;6. Denial or neutralisation of plagiarism-related behaviour;Good Practice GuideIssues of Academic Integrity:PlagiarismContext and Key IssuesAcademic integrity is fundamental to academic life at the University. Academic Integrity means academic honestyand implies that students and teachers abide by a code of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility (Centrefor Academic Integrity, 2000) in relation to the production, publication, assessment and exchange of knowledge inlearning, teaching and research.The Griffith University Institutional Framework for Promoting Academic Integrity among Students, outlines activitiesthat represent breaches of academic integrity such as cheating in examinations, fabrication of results, plagiarism,collusion, duplication and misrepresentation. Griffith University regards all forms of academic misconduct asunacceptable because they undermine the core academic values of honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility.Plagiarism is both a complex and a key issue in academic integrity and, unlike cheating, which is always intentional,may be inadvertent or deliberate (James et al. 2002). Deliberate plagiarism should attract the same response as alltypes of cheating. However, in the case of inadvertent plagiarism, those individuals responsible for identifying andor dealing with these breaches need a broad understanding of why it occurs. Plagiarism can be minimised by a rangeof measures of which the most important is ensuring that students understand the value the University places onrespecting the intellectual property of others, particularly through correct acknowledgement and referencing.Effective approaches to reducing plagiarism are built on a clear understanding of what constitutes plagiarism, whatmotivates students to plagiarise, and how to educate students, both domestic and international, so as to avoid bothdeliberate and inadvertent plagiarism.IAI7. Temptation and opportunity via the digitisation of information; and8. Lack of deterrence –low chance of being caught/effectively punished.
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