Exploring the Attitudes of Undergraduate Students towards Plagiarism in Public and Private Institutions

Shahzada Qaisar, Sumaira Rashid and Aashiq Hussain Dogar
Additional contact information
Shahzada Qaisar: Assistant Professor, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Sumaira Rashid: Assistant Professor, Department of Education, F.C. College, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
Aashiq Hussain Dogar: Associate Professor, University of Education, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

Global Regional Review, 2016, vol. 1, issue 1, 243-259

Abstract: The purpose of the study is to explore the attitude of undergraduate students towards plagiarism from both public and private higher educational institutions. A cross-sectional survey was used to collect the data through adopted questionnaire which comprised of three subscales; positive attitude, negative attitude and subjective norms towards plagiarism. Data was collected from 309 students of BS-Mathematics (n=155) and BS-English (n=154) programs in which 153 students are from public and 156 are from private institutions. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used to analyse the data. The results of the study revealed that undergraduate students from both programs have medium level of positive and negative attitude towards plagiarism. The findings show that there is no difference in positive attitude towards plagiarism, however difference is noted in negative attitude and subjective norms towards plagiarism between public and private students. Similarly no difference appears on the basis of three subscales between BS Mathematics and BS English undergraduate students.

Keywords: Plagiarism; Positive Attitude; Negative Attitude; Subjective Norms (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://grrjournal.com/jadmin/Auther/31rvIolA2LALJouq9hkR/Sj3wV68VJ6.pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.grrjournal.com/issue/Exploring-the-Att ... Private-Institutions (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:1:y:2016:i:1:p:243-259

DOI: 10.31703/grr.2016(I-I).19

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Global Regional Review from Humanity Only
Bibliographic data for series maintained by M Imran Khan ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).