مرکز منطقه ای اطلاع رساني علوم و فناوري - Internet Based Academic Dishonesty of the University Students in terms of Grade Level, Gender and Faculty

Abstract :

While internet facilitates the daily life and academic studies in terms of websites with downloadable assignments and copy and paste features, it provides unlimited irregularities features has become a problem that must be tackled in the teaching and learning process. In order to prevent the academic dishonesty of the students, first of all we have to understand the reasons of this behavior can be an effective way to develop solutions in this direction. In this research, the opinions of the 524 students from different faculties are examined about plagiarism from the internet by taking age, gender and faculty variables into consideration. Data were collected by a questionnaire develop by the researchers in this descriptive study. Percent- frequency, arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test, one- way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Tukey test are used in the analysis of the data. According to the findings of the study, the reasons of the academic dishonesty from the internet has emerged as the quality of the homework, evaluation method of the instructor, students’ affective approach towards to the lesson and time management that shows statistically differences in terms of grade level, gender and faculty.