the goal of this study was to assess attitude towards plagiarism in faculty members of medical school at tehran university of medical sciences. one hundred and twenty medical faculty members of tehran university of medical sciences were enrolled in this cross-sectional study. they were asked to answer to valid and reliable persian version of attitude towards plagiarism questionnaire. attitude t...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to develop a questionnaire in order to evaluate knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) of the faculty members and students toward plagiarism. METHODS A KAP study was conducted from June to October 2011 enrolling 390 volunteers anonymously (response rate 96%). The questionnaire included the following four parts: (a) general characteristics like gender, acade...

Plagiarism undermines the very purpose of obtaining education, and plagiarising final theses diminishes value university education in society. Therefore, it is necessary to tackle this issue all courses, including foreign language courses. Stemming from definition plagiarism its classification paper aims analyse how students perceive plagiarism. The analysis students’ perception based on a ques...

plagiarism refers to “adopting someone else’s words, work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own”. it is potentially considered as the most prevalent form of scientific dishonesty discovered in research papers. the present review aims to provide a thorough account of plagiarism to build awareness about all dimensions of plagiarism.the key words “plagiarism”, “types”, “detection” and “conseq...

S tudents’ academic misconduct has been an issue in medical education and is more likely with development of technology (1, 2). We investigated the occurrence of plagiarism by medical students in a problem-based learning (PBL) course. The participants were a cohort of Year 1 students in the 4-year medical program (n 53) at Dongguk University Medical School in South Korea. Of these students, 38....

This study investigated students’ perceptions towards the affordances and challenges of integrating mobile learning (m-learning) into an undergraduate course. It also examined the impact of students’ gender on their perceived affordances and challenges. The relationship between students’ perceived affordances and perceived challenges of m-learning was also explored. Questionnaires distributed t...