Percepción sobre el plagio académico de estudiantes universitarios españoles

  1. Violeta Cebrián-Robles 1
  2. Manuela Raposo-Rivas 1
  3. Manuel Cebrián-de-la-Serna 2
  4. José Antonio Sarmiento-Campos 1
  1. 1 Universidade de Vigo
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    Universidade de Vigo

    Vigo, España

    ROR https://ror.org/05rdf8595

  2. 2 Universidad de Málaga
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    Universidad de Málaga

    Málaga, España

    ROR https://ror.org/036b2ww28

Revista:
Educación XX1: Revista de la Facultad de Educación

ISSN: 1139-613X,  2174-5374

Ano de publicación: 2018

Volume: 21

Número: 2

Páxinas: 105-129

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5944/EDUCXX1.20062 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

Outras publicacións en: Educación XX1: Revista de la Facultad de Educación

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Resumo

Increasingly digitalized teaching and learning processes have turned the Internet into the main source of information in universities. The ease of access to information can be accompanied by fraudulent practices such as plagiarism. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to discover the origin of the reasons and motivations that Spanish university students have, as well as to establish a model that allows them to be categorized and that provides a theoretical explanation for the empirical data. With a causal correlational research design and using an ad hoc questionnaire as an instrument of measurement, to investigate which practices they consider to be dishonest, if they have ever carried out these practices and the main reason for this. 461 university students in Education (degree and master’s degree) at five Spanish universities participated in the study. From the exploratory factor analysis, one factor is identified relative to the concept of plagiarism, two about what they do, and three factors about why they do it. With this, a confirmatory factor analysis is performed on the empirical model based on the type of relationship that, according to the students, occurs between the concept of plagiarism and its constituent elements, the actions considered plagiarism carried out by these students and the various reasons for carrying them out. A model is obtained according to the statistical indices: standardized Chi square (1.9), goodness of fit (0.97), goodness of corrected fit (0.97), comparative fit (0.95), mean quadratic approximation error (0.04) and Akaike’s informative criterion, which is lower than the independent model. It concludes by identifying a pattern in which, despite knowing what «plagiarism» is and its consequences, three interrelated reasons are justified for plagiarism: «internal» to the person, «external» to them and lack of motivation and interest in the task.

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Proyecto I+D+i titulado Estudio del impacto de las e-rúbricas federadas en la evaluación de las competencias en el Practicum (2014-2017). Financiado por la convocatoria de Excelencia del Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, n.° EDU2103-41974-P.

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