Attitudes toward plagiarism among pharmacy and medical biochemistry students – cross-sectional survey study

Vanja Pupovac · Lidija Bilić-Zulle · Martina Mavrinac · Mladen Petrovečki

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Academic integrity and plagiarism Ethics in Business and Education Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection

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Introduction: Plagiarism is one of the most frequent and serious forms of misconduct in academic environment.The cross-sectional survey study was done with aim to explore the attitudes toward plagiarism.Materials and methods: First year students of Faculty of Pharmacy and Medical Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia (N = 146) were anonymously tested using Attitude toward Plagiarism (ATP) questionnaire.The questionnaire is composed of 29 statements on a 5 point Likert scale, (1 -strongly disagree, 2 -disagree, 3 -neither agree nor disagree, 4 -agree and 5 -strongly agree) measuring three attitudinal factors (positive and negative attitude and subjective norms) toward plagiarism.Results were presented as score (mean ± SD) followed by reference range (divided in three equal parts: low, moderate and high score).Score range expends from 12 to 60 (low: 12-28; moderate: 29-45; high: 46-60) measuring positive attitude toward plagiarism, from 7 to 35 (low: 7-16; moderate: 17-26; high: 27-35) measuring negative attitude toward plagiarism and from 10 to 50 (low: 10-23; moderate: 24-37; high: 38-50) measuring subjective norms.Response rate was 99% (N = 144).Results: Results revealed moderate positive attitude (36 ± 7) and subjective norms (32 ± 6) toward plagiarism and moderate to high negative attitude (26 ± 4).Plagiarism is perceived as not very important (63% of students), harmless (59%), justifi ed under special circumstances (42%), and sometimes necessary (35%).Conclusion: Students' attitudes refl ect insuffi cient level of seriousness and awareness with which plagiarism is perceived.They are lacking knowledge on scientifi c methodology, academic and scientifi c misconduct.Plan and program to educate students about academic integrity and research methodology is required on all educational level.

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