Farklı Eğitim ve Kültürlerdeki Üniversite Öğrencilerinin İntihale İlişkin Görüş ve Davranışları

Abstract

In this article Hacettepe University Department of Information Management and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science undergraduate students’ views and behaviours concerning plagiarism and cheating were examined. By comparing opinions and thoughts about plagiarism and cheating of students who were studying in the same discipline at two different universities, effects of differences of awareness, education, behaviours of academicians and measures taken by the universities have been studied. Descriptive method was used in this study and data were collected through a questionnaire. 193 undergraduate students out of 285 from Hacettepe University Department of Information Management and 107 undergraduate students out of 127 from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science have answered the questionairre during the 2014-2015 academic year. Awareness about plagiarism, cheating and unethical behaviours, the reasons that lead to plagiarism and opinions related to preventing these have been tried to be determined. According to the findings, the students in both schools are familiar with plagiarism but they continue to get involved in unethical behaviours. It is found out that there are differences between students with regard to their research skills and education levels about plagiarism which leads us to the fact that the reasons of plagiarism are directly relevant to the prevention methods to follow. All University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science students already knew about plagiarism and research during their primary or secondary school education, before being admitted to the university. However, the majority of Hacettepe Univer-sity Department of Information Management students (73%) received their first education on plagiarism and how to conduct reseach only during their university years. Another significant finding underlines how distinct appli-cations of detection and prevention of plagiarism at these two universities have an impact on studnet plagiarism