2019, Number 3
Knowledge and implications of academic plagiarism in students of a clinical research methodology diploma course: dishonesty or ignorance?
Zamora-Uribe JL
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ABSTRACT
Objective: identify the level of knowledge that students of a second level hospital have about academic plagiarism and its implications, to determine the way in which it occurs and explain the reasons why it is committed. Materials and methods: a quantitative study with a correlational approach, including 70 CIDOCS students who participated in the "Clinical Research Methodology and Critical Reading of Scientific Information" diploma course from April 14 to October 16, 2018. applied a survey with multiple choice answers to collect the information provided by the students. Results: 95.8% of CIDOCS students consider plagiarism as an incorrect behavior. 98.6% say that despite committing unconscious plagiarism is an incorrect action that falls on dishonesty. 31% fail to identify the duplication of work as academic plagiarism. 38% of students do not identify academic plagiarism as using public page sources without citing them. Only 50% of students know how to perform an adequate paraphrase to avoid academic plagiarism. Only 55.7% of students recognize the consequences of academic plagiarism. Conclusions: students are aware of what academic plagiarism means and identify when they are committing plagiarism consciously, since they consider that unconscious plagiarism does not exist at this educational level. What they are not aware of is the consequences that this implies and they do not know the adequate ways to avoid it.REFERENCES
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