Organizacija (Feb 2017)

Reasons for Plagiarism in Higher Education

  • Šprajc Polona,
  • Urh Marko,
  • Jerebic Janja,
  • Trivan Dragan,
  • Jereb Eva

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/orga-2017-0002
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 50, no. 1
pp. 33 – 45

Abstract

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Background and Purpose: The survey was performed to determine the reasons that lead students to possibly commit plagiarism during their studies. By doing so, we wanted to determine the main reason for the appearance of plagiarism and how, within this main reasons, various indicators of plagiarism are judged and, finally, how demographic data and student motivation for study are associated with the reasons for plagiarism.

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