Keywords
academic integrity
plagiarism
How to Cite
Abstract
This article exposes, in brief, relevant matters related to the study of plagiarism in written works as an essential element of student academic dishonesty. Initially, it discusses the concept of plagiarism and its different types. Also, it briefly summarizes the results of 32 studies (25 surveys and seven qualitative studies) about plagiarism in different countries, including Puerto Rico. Finally, it provides some reasons for committing plagiarism and recommendations for its detection, intervention, and prevention.
How to cite:
Medina-Díaz, M. del R., & Verdejo-Carrión, A. L. (2019). El plagio como deshonestidad académica estudiantil. Pedagogía, 45(1), 29- 58. Retrieved from https://revistas.upr.edu/index.php/educacion/article/view/16497
References
Aluja, M. & Birke, A. (Coords). (2004). El papel de la ética en la investigación científica y la educación superior. México, DF: Academia Mexicana de Ciencias y Fondo de Cultura Económica.
American Psychological Association. (2010). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5ta.ed.). Washington, DC: Autor.
Austin, Z., Simpson, S. & Reynen, E. (2005). 'The fault lies not in our students, but in ourselves‘: Academic dishonesty and moral development in health professions education-results of a pilot study in Canadian pharmacy. Teaching in Higher Education, 10, 143-156.
Bendez Vázquez, M., Comas Forgas, R., Martín Llaguno, M., Muñoz González, A. & Topa Cantisano, G. (2011). Plagio y otras prácticas académicamente incorrectas sobre el alumnado universitario de nuevo ingreso. Presentación en IX Jornadas de Redes de Investigación en Docencia Universitaria 2011, Universidad de Alicante, España. Recuperado de http://web.ua.es/es/ice/jornadas-redes/documentos/2011/posters/184404.pdf
Bennett, R. (2005). Factor associated with student plagiarism in a post-1992 university. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 30(2), 137-162.
Bjorklund, M. & Wenestam, C. (1999). Academic cheating: Frecuency, methods, and causes. Ponencia presentada en la Conferencia Anual de Investigación Educativa, Finlandia.
Bliwise, R. J. (2001, mayo-junio). A matter of honor: Academic integrity. Duke Magazine, 3-7, 42-43.
Bordignon, F.R.A., Tolosa, G.H., Rodríguez, C.G. & Peri, J.A. (2007). Primeras experiencias en detección del plagio en el ambiente educativo. En JEITICS 2005-Primeras Jornadas de Educación en Informática y TICS en Argentina. Universidad Nacional de Luján. Recuperado de http://cc.uns.edu.ar/jeitics2005/Trabajos/pdf/19.pdf
Bowers, W. J. (1964). Student dishonesty and its control in college (Cooperative Research Project No. OE 1672). New York: Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University.
Breen, L. & Maassen, M. (2005). Reducing the incidence of plagiarism in an undergraduate course: The role of education. Issues in Educational Research, 15(1), 1-16.
Brilliant, J. J. (1996). An intervention to decrease cheating in an immigrant population. Journal of College Student Development, 37(5), 590- 591.
Brimble, M. & Stevenson-Clark, P. (2005). Perceptions of prevalence and seriousness of academic dishonesty in Australian universities. The Australian Educational Researcher, 32(3), 19-44.
Brown, B.S. (1995). The academic ethics of graduate business students: A survey. Journal of Education for Business, 70(3), 151-156.
Brown, A.S. & Murphy, D.R. (1989). Cryptomnesia: Delineating inadvertent plagiarism. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 15, 432-442.
Buramen, L. (1999). But I wasn‘t cheating: Plagiarism and cross-cultural mythology. En L. Buranen & A.M. Roy, (Eds.), Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world (pp. 63-74). New York, NY: State University of New York Press.
Cabe, P.A. (s.f.). Examples of plagiarism-A taxonomy. [Tips on Plagiarism]. Psychology Department. Recuperado de http://cms.skidmore.edu/psychology/resources/student/tips.cfm
Cabedo Nebot, A. (2010). Recursos informáticos para la detección del plagio académico. Tejuelo, 8, 8-26.
Cizek, G. J. (2003). Detecting and preventing classroom cheating: Promoting integrity in assessment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Clabaugh, G.K. & Rozycki, E. G. (1999). Preventing plagiarism & cheating: An instructor‘s guide. Oreland, PA: New Foundations Press.
Comas, R. & Sureda, J. (2007). Ciber-plagio académico. Una aproximación al estado de los conocimientos. Revista TEXTOS de la CiberSociedad, 10. Temática variada. Recuperado de http://www.cibersociedad.net
Comas-Forgas, R., Sureda-Negre, J. & Salva-Mut, F. (2010). Academic plagiarism prevalence among Spanish undergraduate students: An exploratory analysis. Biochemia Medica, 20(2), 301-306.
Comunidad Práctica de Destrezas de Información. (2011). Plagio en la academia: Guía para los profesores. San Juan, PR: Universidad de Puerto Rico.
Devlin, M. (2002). Minimising plagiarism. University of Melbourne: Center for the Study of Higher Education.
Diekhoff, G.M., LaBeff, E.E., Shinohara,K. & Yusukawa, H. (1999). College cheating in Japan and the United States. Research in Higher Education, 40(3), 343-353.
Dryden, L.M. (1999). A distant mirror or throgh the looking glass? Plagiarism and intellectual property in japanese education. En L. Buranen & A.M. Roy, (Eds.), Perspectives on plagiarism and intellectual property in a postmodern world (pp. 75-85). New York, NY: State University of New York Press.
Ellery, K. (2008). Undergraduate plagiarism. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(5), 507-516.
Franklin-Stokes, A. & Newstead, S. E. (1995). Undergraduate cheating: Who does, what and why? Studies in Higher Education, 20(2), 159-172.
Gaffoglio, L. (2006). El plagio literario, un acto entre la admiración y la codicia. La Nación, 17 de abril de 2006, 4 pp. Recuperado de http://www.lanacion.com.ar/798119-el-plagio-literario-un-acto-entre-la-admiracion-y-la-codicia
Garner, B.A. (2009). Black‘s Law Dictionary (9na. ed.). New York: West.
Gibaldi, J. (1998). MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing. New York: The Modern Language Association of America.
Gillmore, B. (2009). Plagiarism: A how-not-to guide for students. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Gómez de Silva, G. (1995). Breve diccionario etimológico de la lengua española. México, DF: Fondo de Cultura Económica.
Graham, M.A., Monday, J., O‘Brien, K. & Steffen, S. (1994). Cheating at small collegues: An examination of student and faculty attitudes and behaviors. Journal of College Student Development, 35, 255-260.
Gullifer, J. & Tyson, G. A. (2010). Exploring university students‘ perceptions of plagiarism: A focus group study. Studies in Higher Education, 35(4), 463-481.
Harris. R.A. (2001). The Plagiarism Handbook: Strategies for preventing, detecting and dealing with plagiarism. Los Angeles, CA: Pyrczak Publishing.
Hollinger, R. C. & Lanza-Kaduce, L. (1996). Academic dishonesty and perceived effectiveness of countermeasures: An empirical survey of cheating at a mayor university. NASPA Journal, 33, 292-306.
Huamaní, C., Dulanto-Pizzorni, A. & Rojas-Revoredo, V. (2008, junio). "Copiar y pegar" en investigaciones en el pregrado: Haciendo mal uso del Internet. Anales de la Facultad de Medicina, 69(2), 117-119. Recuperado de http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1025-55832008000200010&lng=es&nrm=iso
Jenison, L. M. (1972). Student and faculty attitudes toward academic dishonesty offenses. College Student Journal, 6(2), 137-141.
Kibler, W. L., Nuss, E.M., Paterson, B.G., & Pavela, G. (1988). Academic integrity and student development: Legal and policy perspectives. Asheville, NC: College Administrators Publications.
Kuehn, P., Stanwyck, D.J. & Holland, C.L. (1990). Attitudes toward "cheating" behaviors in the ESL classroom. TESOL Quarterly, 24(2), 313-317.
Lanthrop, A. & Foss, K. (2000). Student cheating and plagiarism in the Internet era: A wake-up call. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited.
Leight, D. (1999). Plagiarism as metaphor. En L. Buramen y A.M. Roy (Eds.), Perspectives on plagiarism (pp. 221-229). New York, NY: State University of New York Press.
Lethem, J. (2007, febrero). The ecstasy of influence. Harper Magazine, 59-71.
Lim, V.K.G. & See, S.K.B. (2001). Attitudes toward, and intentions to report, academic cheating among students in Singapore. Ethics & Behavior, 11(3), 261-274.
Lin, C-H.S. & Wen, L.-Y. M. (2007). Academic dishonesty in higher education-A nationwide study in Taiwan. Higher Education, 54, 85-97.
Lipson, A. & McGavern, N. (1993). Undergraduate academic dishonesty at MIT. Results of a study of attitudes and behavior of undergraduates, faculty and graduate tecahing assitants. Paper presented at the Annual Forum of the Association for Institutional Research, Chicago, IL. ERIC Reproduction Number ED 368272.
Long, P. D. (2002, enero). Plagiarism: IT-Enabled tools for deceit? Syllabus, 8, 11.
Lupton, R.A. & Chapman, K.J. (2002). Rusian and American college students‘ attitudes, perceptions and tendencies towards cheating. Educational Research, 44(1), 17-27.
Mawdsley, R.D. (2009). The tangled web of plagiarism litigation: Sorting out the legal issues. Brigham Young University Education and Law Journal, 2009, 245.
Martin, B. (1994). Plagiarism: A misplaced emphasis. Journal of Information Ethics, 3 (2), 36-47. Recuperado de http://www.uow.edu.au/~bmartin/pubs/94jie.html
McCabe, D. L. (1992). The influence of situational ethics on cheating among college students. Sociological Inquiry, 62(3), 365-374.
McCabe, D.L., Feghali, T. &y Abdallah, H. (2008). Academic dishonesty in the Middle East: Individual and contextual factors. Research on Higher Education, 49, 451-467.
McKeever, L. (2006). Online plagiarism detection services-savior or scourge? Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 31(2), 155-165.
Medina Díaz, M. del R. & Verdejo Carrión, A. L. (2005). Encuesta acerca de la deshonestidad académica estudiantil en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras, Pedagogía, 38, 179-204.
Medina Díaz, M. del R. & Verdejo Carrión, A. L. (2008). Perspectivas de la facultad acerca de la deshonestidad académica estudiantil en la Univesridad de Puerto Rico-Recinto de Río Piedras. Pedagogía, 41, 149-172.
Medina Díaz, M. del R. & Verdejo Carrión, A. L. (2012). Plagio cibérnetico: Situación y detección. Manuscrito inédito sometido a publicación.
Mejía, J. F. & Ordóñez, C.L. (2004, agosto). El fraude académico en la Universidad de los Andes: ¿Qué, qué tanto y por qué? Revista de Estudios Sociales, 18, 13-25.
Moliner, M. (1997). Diccionario del uso del español. Madrid, España: Gredos.
Mozgovoy, M., Kakkonen, T., & Cosma, G. (2010). Automatic student plagiarism detection: Future perspectives. Journal of Educational Computing Research, 43(2), 511-531.
Nuss, E. M. (1984). Academic integrity: Comparing faculty & students attitudes. Improving College & University Teaching, 32(3), 140-144.
Olcott, M. (2002). Ancient and modern notions of plagiarism: A study of concepts on intelectual property in classical Greece. Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., 49, 1047-1052.
Park, C. (2003). In other (people‘s) words: Plagiarism by university studentsliterature and lessons. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 28(5), 471-488.
Posner, R. A. (2007). The little book of Plagiarism. New York: Pantheon Books.
Pupovac, V., Bilić-Zulle, L. & Pretovečki, M. (2008). On academic plagiarism in Europe. An analytic approach based on four studies. En R. Comas y J. Sureda (Coords.). Academic cyberplagiarism [Online dossier]. Digithum, 10, UOC. Recuperado de http://www.uoc.edu/digithum/10/eng/pipovac_bilic-zulle_petrovecki.pdf
Real Academia Española. (2001). Diccionario de la lengua española (DRAE, 22.a ed.). Consultado en http://www.rae.es/rae.html
Renard, L. (1999, diciembre/2000, enero). Cut and paste 101: Plagiarism and the net. Educational Leadership, 38-42.
Roberts, P., Anderson, J. & Yanish, P. (1997). Academic misconduct: Where do we start? Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Nothern Rocky Mountain Educational Research Association. Jackson, WY. ERIC Docoment Reproduction Service ED 415781.
Roid, M. (1997). Can undergraduate students determine whether text has been plagiarized? Psychological Record, 47, 113-122.
Roid, M. (1999). When college students‘ attempts at paraphasing become instances of potential plagiarism, Psychological Reports, 84, 973-982.
Shamoo, A. E. & Resnick, D.B. (2003). Responsible Conduct of Research. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sims, R.L. (1993). The relationship between academic dishonesty and unethical business practices. Journal of Education for Business, 68, 207-211.
Singhal, A. C. (1982). Factors in students‘ dishonesty. Psychological Reports, 51, 775-780.
Song-Turner, H. (2008). Plagiarism: Academic dishonesty or "blind spot" of multicultural education? Australiam Universities Review, 50(2), 39-50.
Stafford, T.H. (1976). Academic dishonesty at North Carolina State University: A student- faculty response. North Carolina University-Raleigh, Division of Studen Affairs. ERIC Document Reproduction Service ED 169846.
Standing, L. & Gorassini, D. (1986). An evaluation of the cloze procedure as a test for plagiarism. Teaching of Psychology, 13(3), 130-132.
Stern, E. B. & Havlicek, L. (1986). Academic misconduct: Results from faculty and undergraduate student surveys. Journal of Allied Health, 15(2), 129-142.
Sureda, J. & Comas, R. (2008). El plagio y otras formas de deshonestidad académica entre el alumnado universitario. Resultados generales de los datos de una encuesta realizada por los usuarios del portal Universia. Informe de Investigación del Grupo Educación y Cuidadanía. Palma: Universitat de les Illes Balears. Departamento de Pedagogía Aplicada y Psicología de la Educación. Recuperado de http://www.ciberplagio.es/atttachment.php?key=41
Vendrel Ruiz, L. (2012). La honestidad académica estudiantil en los estudiantes graduados de la Facultad de Educación en la Universidad de Puerto Rico-Río Piedras. Tesis de maestría inédita. Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras.
Verdejo Carrión, A.L. & Medina Díaz, M.(2009). Evaluación del aprendizaje estudiantil (5ta.ed.). San Juan, PR: ExPERTS Consultants.
Wajda-Johnston, V.A., Handal, P.J., Brawer, P.A. & Fabricatore, A.N. (2001). Academic dishonesty at the graduate level. Ethics & Behavior, 11(3), 287-305.
Weeks, K. M (1997). Student handbook policies: A forms manual for college decision makers. Nashville, TN: College Legal Information.
Whitley, B. E. & Keith-Spiegel, P. (2002). Academic Dishonesty: An educator‘s guide. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wilhoit, S. (1994). Helping students to avoid plagiarism. College Teaching, 42(4), 161-164.
The contents published in the Puerto Rico Journal of Education is freely distributed under open access practices, in accordance with the Creative Commons license, Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Through these principles, the journal and its authors allow readers to access, reproduce and share articles in full text. Users should give credit to authors in a reasonable way without suggesting they have their support. Under no circumstances, readers may make use of the contents for commercial purposes. The authors retain copyright on their works.