Factors explaining student plagiarism: an empirical test in a spanish university

  1. Gomez Villascuerna, Jaime 1
  2. Salazar Terreros, Idana 1
  3. Vargas Montoya, Pilar 1
  1. 1 Universidad de La Rioja
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    Universidad de La Rioja

    Logroño, España

    ROR https://ror.org/0553yr311

Llibre:
5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2012)

ISBN: 978-84-616-0763-1

Any de publicació: 2012

Pàgines: 2724-2730

Congrés: 5th International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2012)

Tipus: Aportació congrés

WoS: WOS:000318422202117 GOOGLE SCHOLAR

Resum

This paper describes a practical experience showing the importance of regulating plagiarism at the University. The experience takes place at the University of La Rioja where new degrees have been adapted to European Higher Education framework. The documents were treated through the Blackboard platform and the software Safe Assign. The results obtained show that there is an inverse relationship between the matching percentages of plagiarism in each document and the contribution of these documents to the final grading. Comparison of matching percentages shows that those working teams that have previously plagiarised are more likely to continue with this behaviour.