Key aspects of academic integrity: preventing plagiarism

Abstract

Solving the problem of academic integrity and preventing the use of academic plagiarism is one of the key issues in education and science. Today, these issues are the subject of research by both foreign and domestic scientists, since the specifics of preventing the use of academic plagiarism are a multifaceted and complex phenomenon. The research used general scientific (generalization, comparison, induction and deduction) and empirical-theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis). The use of system-structural analysis made it possible to distinguish the main aspects of academic integrity and academic plagiarism. It has been established that academic integrity means a set of ethical principles and statutory rules that should be followed by participants in the educational process during learning, teaching and carrying out scientific (creative) activities in order to ensure trust in the results of studies and/or scientific (creative) achievements. It has been found that plagiarism means the publicizing (publication), in whole or in part, of someone else's work under the name of a person who is not the author of this work. On the basis of the conducted research, it was found out that it is necessary to create such learning conditions that students of education have no reason to resort to mechanical copying of the text, to appropriate someone else's intellectual property, not to violate copyright. The results can be directed to the further study of the process of implementation of the principles of academic integrity in higher education institutions in order to prevent the use of plagiarism.