Abstract
In a new Essay as part of the Research Integrity Series, Tracey Bretag discusses the complex problem of plagiarism within the education system. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary
Highlights
Academic integrity encompasses a number of values including honesty, trust, respect, fairness, and responsibility [1] and ideals that should be upheld by all educational stakeholders. ‘‘Academic integrity involves ensuring that in research, and in teaching and learning, both staff and students act in an honest way
Academic integrity breaches include a diverse range of unfair practices including plagiarism, cheating in exams or assignments, inappropriate collusion, theft of other students’ work, paying a third party for assignments, downloading whole or part of assignments from the Internet, falsification of data, misrepresentation of records, or other actions that undermine the integrity of scholarship [4]
Marshall and Garry [14] concluded that English is an Additional Language (EAL) students are significantly more likely to have engaged in serious forms of plagiarism (83%) than non-EAL students (65%); Vieyra et al [15] determined that 47% of EAL graduate students had plagiarised in their research proposals, versus 16% of nonEAL students
Summary
Business School, University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Research Integrity Series This is one article in an occasional PLOS Medicine series on research integrity that examines issues affecting the ethics of health research worldwide
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