Exploring university students' perceptions of plagiarism: a focus group study

References

• Anderman , E.M. , Griesinger , T. and Westerfield , G. 1998 . Motivation and cheating during early adolescence . Journal of Educational Psychology , 90 : 84 – 93 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Anderman , E.M. and Midgley , C. 1997 . Changes in achievement orientations, perceived academic competence, and grades across transition to middle‐level schools . Contemporary Educational Psychology , 22 : 269 – 98 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Archer , J. , Cantwell , R. and Bourke , S. 1999 . Coping at university: An examination of achievement, motivation, self‐regulation, confidence, and method of entry . Higher Education Research & Development , 18 ( 1 ) : 31 – 54 .
   Google Scholar
• Ashworth , P. , Bannister , P. and Thorne , P. 1997 . Guilty in whose eyes? University students' perceptions of cheating and plagiarism in academic work and assessment . Studies in Higher Education , 22 ( 2 ) : 187 – 203 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ashworth , P. , Freewood , M. and Macdonald , R. 2003 . The student lifeworld and the meanings of plagiarism . Journal of Phenomenological Psychology , 34 ( 2 ) : 257 – 78 .
   Google Scholar
• Athanasou , J.A. and Olasehinde , O. 2002 . Male and female differences in self‐report cheating . Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation , 8 ( 5 ) http://PAREonline.net/getvn.asp?v=8&n=5 (accessed June 16, 2007)
   Google Scholar
• Breen , L. and Maassen , M. 2005 . Reducing the incidence of plagiarism in an undergraduate course: The role of education . Issues in Educational Research , 15 ( 1 ) : 1 – 16 .
   Google Scholar
• Brimble , M. and Stevenson‐Clarke , P. Prevalence of and penalties for academic dishonesty: Perceptions of Australian accounting students . Paper presented at the Conference of the Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand . July 3–5 , Melbourne .
   Google Scholar
• Burke , J.L. 1997 . “ Faculty perceptions of and attitudes toward academic dishonesty at a two year college ” . University of Georgia . Unpublished doctoral dissertation
   Google Scholar
• Burton , L.J. 2007 . An interactive approach to writing essays and research reports in psychology. , 2nd ed. , Milton , QLD : John Wiley & Sons .
   Google Scholar
• Byrne , C.F. and Trew , K.F. 2005 . Crime orientations, social relations and involvement in crime: Patterns emerging from offenders' accounts . The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice , 44 ( 2 ) : 185 – 205 .
   Google Scholar
• Calabrese , R.L. and Cochran , J.T. 1990 . The relationship of alienation to cheating among a sample of American adolescents . Journal of Research and Development in Education , 23 ( 2 ) : 65 – 72 .
   Google Scholar
• Carroll , J. 2005a . “ Institutional issues in deterring, detecting and dealing with student plagiarism ” . http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=pub_plagiarism (accessed April 5, 2007)
   Google Scholar
• Carroll , J. 2005b . Handling student plagiarism: Moving to mainstream . Brookes eJournal of Learning and Teaching , 1 ( 2 ) http://bejlt.brookes.ac.uk/vol1/volume1issue2/perspective/carroll.html (accessed April 10, 2007)
   Google Scholar
• Caruana , A. , Ramaseshan , B. and Ewing , M.T. 2000 . The effect of anomie on academic dishonesty among university students . International Journal of Educational Management , 14 ( 1 ) : 23 – 30 .
   Google Scholar
• Cochran , J.L. and Cochran , N.H. 2005 . The heart of counseling: A guide to developing therapeutic relationships , Belmont , CA : Wadsworth .
   Google Scholar
• Davis , S.F. , Grover , C.A. and Becker , A.H. 1992 . Academic dishonesty: Prevalence, determinants, techniques, and punishments . Teaching of Psychology , 19 ( 1 ) : 16
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Devlin , M. and Gray , K. 2007 . In their own words: A qualitative study of the reasons Australian university students plagiarize . Higher Education Research & Development , 26 ( 2 ) : 181 – 98 .
   Google Scholar
• DiFonzo , N. and Bordia , P. 2007 . Rumor, gossip and urban legends . Diogenes , 54 ( 1 ) : 19 – 35 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Egan , G. 2007 . The skilled helper: A problem‐management and opportunity‐development approach to helping. , 8th ed. , Belmont , CA : Thomson/Brooks/Cole .
   Google Scholar
• Fiske , S.T. 2004 . Social beings: A core motives approach to social psychology , Hoboken , NJ : John Wiley & Sons .
   Google Scholar
• Franklyn‐Stokes , A. and Newstead , S.E. 1995 . Undergraduate cheating: Who does what and why . Studies in Higher Education , 20 ( 2 ) : 159 – 72 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hasen , M. and Huppert , M. The trial of damocles: An investigation into the incidence of plagiarism at an Australian university . Paper presented at the Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Annual Conference . November 27 – December 1 , Parramatta , NSW .
   Google Scholar
• Hayes , N. 2000 . Doing psychological research , Philadelphia , PA : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar
• Ingleton , C. and Cadman , K. 2002 . Silent issues for international postgraduate research students: Emotion and agency in academic success . Australian Educational Researcher , 29 ( 1 ) : 93 – 114 .
   Google Scholar
• James , R. , McInnis , C. and Devlin , M. 2002 . Assessing learning in Australian universities: Ideas, strategies and resources for quality in student assessment , Melbourne : Centre for the Study of Higher Education .
   Google Scholar
• Johnston , D.K. 1991 . Cheating: Reflections on a moral dilemma . Journal of Moral Education , 20 ( 3 ) : 283 – 91 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Jordan , A.E. 2001 . College student cheating: The role of motivation, perceived norms, attitudes, and knowledge of institutional policy . Ethics & Behavior , 11 ( 3 ) : 233 – 47 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kanfer , F.H. and Schefft , B. 1988 . Guiding the process of therapeutic change , Champaign , IL : Research Press .
   Google Scholar
• Kibler , W.L. 1993 . Academic dishonesty: A student development dilemma . National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, Inc. (NASPA) Journal , 30 ( 4 ) : 252 – 67 .
   Google Scholar
• Lim , V.K. and See , S.K.B. 2001 . Attitudes toward and intentions to report: Academic cheating among students in Singapore . Ethics & Behavior , 11 ( 3 ) : 261 – 74 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Love , P.G. and Simmons , J. 1998 . Factors influencing cheating and plagiarism among graduate students in a college of education . College Student Journal , 32 ( 4 ) : 539 – 50 .
   Google Scholar
• Madriz , E. 2000 . “ Focus groups as feminist research ” . In Handbook of qualitative research , Edited by: Denzin , N. and Lincoln , Y. 835 – 50 . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage .
   Google Scholar
• Marsden , H. , Carroll , M. and Neill , J.T. 2005 . Who cheats at university? A self‐report study of dishonest academic behaviours in a sample of Australian university students . Australian Journal of Psychology , 57 ( 1 ) : 1 – 10 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCabe , D.L. , Butterfield , K.D. and Trevino , L.K. 2003 . Faculty and academic integrity: The influence of current honor codes and past honor code experiences . Research in Higher Education , 44 ( 3 ) : 367 – 85 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCabe , D.L. and Trevino , L.K. 1993 . Academic dishonesty: Honor codes and other contextual influences . Journal of Higher Education , 64 ( 5 ) : 522 – 38 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCabe , D.L. and Trevino , L.K. 1996 . What we know about cheating in college . Change , 28 ( 1 ) : 28 – 33 .
   Google Scholar
• McCabe , D.L. and Trevino , L.K. 1997 . Individual and contextual influences on academic dishonesty: A multicampus investigation . Research in Higher Education , 38 ( 3 ) : 379 – 96 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McCabe , D.L. , Trevino , L.K. and Butterfield , K.D. 2001 . Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research . Ethics & Behavior , 11 ( 3 ) : 219 – 32 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• McGowan , U. Plagiarism detection and prevention: Are we putting the cart before the horse? . Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) conference: Higher education in a changing world . Sydney : HERDSA .
   Google Scholar
• McKean , K.J. 1994 . Using multiple risk factors to assess the behavioral, cognitive, and affective effects of learned helplessness . Journal of Psychology , 128 ( 2 ) : 177 – 83 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Newstead , S.E. , Franklyn‐Stokes , A. and Armstead , P. 1996 . Individual differences in student cheating . Journal of Educational Psychology , 88 : 229 – 41 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• O'Connor , S. Cheating and electronic plagiarism – Scope, consequences and detection . Paper presented at the Educause in Australia Conference . May 6–9 , Adelaide , Australia.
   Google Scholar
• Park , C. 2003 . In other (people's) words: Plagiarism by university students – Literature and lessons . Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education , 28 ( 5 ) : 471 – 88 .
   Google Scholar
• Perry , A.R. , Kane , K.M. , Bernesser , K.J. and Spicker , P.T. 1990 . Type A behavior, competitive achievement‐striving, and cheating among college students . Psychological Reports , 66 ( 2 ) : 459 – 65 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Petress , K. 2003 . Academic dishonesty: A plague on our profession . Education , 123 ( 3 ) : 624 – 27 .
   Google Scholar
• Prochaska , J.O. and Norcross , J.C. 2007 . Systems of psychotherapy: A transtheoretical analysis. , 6th ed. , Belmont , CA : Wadsworth .
   Google Scholar
• Roig , M. 1997 . Can undergraduate students determine whether text has been plagiarized? . Psychological Record , 47 ( 1 ) : 113 – 23 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Roig , M. and Caso , M. 2005 . Lying and cheating: Fraudulent excuse making, cheating, and plagiarism . Journal of Psychology , 139 ( 6 ) : 485 – 94 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seligman , M.E.P. 1975 . Helplessness: On depression, development, and death , San Francisco : W.H. Freeman .
   Google Scholar
• Sheard , J. , Carbone , A. and Dick , M. Determination of factors which impact on students' propensity to cheat . Australasian Computing Education Conference . Edited by: Greening , T. and Lister , R. Adelaide : Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology (CRPIT) .
   Google Scholar
• Stearns , L. 1992 . Copy wrong: Plagiarism, process, property, and the law . California Law Review , 80 ( 2 ) : 513 – 53 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sutherland‐Smith , W. 2005 . Pandora's box: Academic perceptions of student plagiarism in writing . Journal of English for Academic Purposes , 4 ( 1 ) : 83 – 95 .
   Google Scholar
• Whitley , B.E. 1998 . Factors associated with cheating among college students . Research in Higher Education , 39 ( 3 ) : 235 – 74 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Wilkinson , S. 2008 . “ Focus groups ” . In Qualitative psychology: A practical guide to research methods , Edited by: Smith , J. London : Sage .
   Google Scholar
• Willig , C. 2001 . Introducing qualitative research in psychology , Buckingham : Open University Press .
   Google Scholar