With the highly development of Internet, it¡¦s much easier than ever for student to commit plagiarism. However, there¡¦s still no related research regarding Internet plagiarism in Taiwan. Therefore, this study will be focused on student¡¦s Internet plagiarizing behaviors, which are committed by college students, and trying to understand the relationship among students¡¦ personality traits, learning styles, demographic characteristics, and their Internet plagiarizing behaviors.
In this study, Internet plagiarism is given a definition by three different types: (1) after reading the contents of Internet materials, students paraphrase and put them in the papers without citation. (2) Students copy texts or data directly from the Internet materials then paste them in the papers without paraphrase and citation. (3)Students not only paraphrase some materials from Internet, but also copy and paste texts and data in the papers directly.
433 questionnaires were distributed in seven universities/colleges in Taiwan and completed by undergraduate and graduate students. The major findings after statistic analyses are as follow:
(1)For the last experience of writing papers, the rate of Internet plagiarism committed by college students is up to 86.85%.
(2)Students¡¦ Internet plagiarism behaviors have significant differences in gender, age, year level of graduate school, college or graduate school, and discipline, but no significant differences in personality trait, learning style, and year level of college.
(3)Students who commit Internet plagiarism, deliberately or not, have significant differences in personality trait and college or graduate school, but no significant differences in learning style, gender, age, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and discipline.
(4) Types of student plagiarism have significant differences in gender, age, college or graduate school, discipline, and reasons of plagiarism, but no significant differences in personality trait and learning style.
(5)Students¡¦ square root plagiarizing levels have significant differences in personality trait, discipline, and reasons of plagiarism, but no significant differences in learning style, gender, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and college or graduate school.
(6)Reasons of student plagiarism have significant differences in age and college or graduate school, but no significant differences in personality trait, learning style, age, year level of college, year level of graduate school, and discipline.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-1226107-152527 |
| Date | 26 December 2007 |
| Creators | Lin, Yuan-yu |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-1226107-152527 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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