Attitudes towards plagiarism among faculty members in Egyptian universities: A field study | ||
| International Journal of Library and Information Sciences | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2019, Pages 14-39 PDF (883.9 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijlis.2019.64129 | ||
| Author | ||
| Mona Farouk Ali Mohamed* | ||
| قسم المکتبات جامعة حلوان | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Maintaining and promoting academic integrity is one of the most important challenges faced by higher education institutions. Plagiarism is one of the most important aspects of academic misconduct and violating this integrity. There are many strategies that can monitor and combat plagiarism, including measuring the attitudes of plagiarism among students, researchers and faculty members in universities. Objective: The present study aims to measure the attitudes of Egyptian university faculty toward plagiarism. Method and procedures: Attitudes of Egyptian universities faculty toward plagiarism have been measured according to a questionnaire designed in a previous study to measure such behavior in the academic community. The questionnaire was translated into Arabic and tested by a sample of the study community. It was used to measure the positive and negative attitudes towards plagiarism as well as the subjective norms of the faculty members. Also, the questionnaire examined the relationship between these attitudes and the study variables that included the type of specialization, training on academic integrity and scientific writing, study abroad. Results: The study revealed a moderate attitude among faculty members towards plagiarism and that there were no statistically significant differences according to the study variables except for specialization. It was found that those belonging to the disciplines of basic and applied sciences had an attitude towards plagiarism more than their peers in other disciplines. Recommendation: The study presented several recommendations, the most important of which was the need to design a training program on academic integrity, which must be obligatory for academic promotions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Academic integrity; Plagiarism; attitudes towards plagiarism; academic misconduct; academic corruption; Egyptian universities | ||
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