Reasons for Plagiarism in Higher Education

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• plagiarism
• higher education
• reasons for plagiarism
• academic skills
• teachers