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There is little literature and research developed on academic integrity specifically on cyber-plagiarism among
College of education students. It is a topic that, until now, has not been explored extensively but needs to be
investigated due to its short term and long term effects in the pedagogy.
The intent of the researcher is not to claim that the use of ICT have resulted in aberrant cyber-plagiarism
behaviors. Rather, the investigation of cyber-plagiarism provides some useful insights on the role of teachers and
future educators in helping the students to observe academic integrity at all times.
These reasons prompted the researcher to conduct a study on the pedagogical challenge of cyber-plagiarism
among future educators. This study specifically investigated the extent of awareness and extent of cyberplagiarism
behaviors among fourth year College of Education students in an identified university in the
Philippines.
Statement of the Problem
This study aimed to determine the pedagogical challenge in cyber- plagiarism among future educators. This
study is intended to answer the following questions:
1. What is the Education students’ most commonly used search engine in the internet when doing the
assigned paper works?
2. What is the Education students’ extent of awareness in cyber-plagiarism in accomplishing their paper
works?
3. What is the Education students’ extent of cyber-plagiarism behaviors in
accomplishing their paper works?
4. What is the Education teachers’ assessment of their students’ extent of cyber-plagiarism behaviors?
5. Is there a significant difference in the professors’ and students’ assessment of cyber-plagiarism
behaviors?
6. Is there a significant relationship between the education students’ extent of awareness and their extent
of cyber-plagiarism behaviors?
7. What may be the most common reasons why students cyber-plagiarize?
8. How may the findings of the study and the existing literature be utilized in developing an anti- cyberplagiarism
in education strategies ( ACES )?
Methodology
Research Design
The researcher used the descriptive- correlation design in this study to determine the relationship existing
between fourth year education students’ extent of awareness on forms of cyber-plagiarism and extent of cyber
plagiarism behavior in preparing and submitting paper works. The responses of students and teachers were also
correlated for significant difference in their assessment of cyber- plagiarism behaviors of the fourth year
education students.
Research Setting
The study was conducted in one of the autonomous university located in Quezon City Philippines. The
population of this study were all the fourth year students (N= 71) in the College of Education based on the data
given by the Office of the Registrar. Out of 71 respondents, 55 were present during the gathering of data because
some fourth year students are in their respective school assignment in the field study course.
Research Instrument
The researcher made use of a self-constructed questionnaire validated by a lawyer, a dean of the College of
Education, a coordinator of Education, a grammarian and an statistician. Comments and suggestions given by
the experts were collated and integrated into survey format prior to its pilot study and for reliability test. The first
part of the survey was the profile of the College of Education fourth year students which includes the search
engine they commonly used in doing paper works. The second part of the questionnaire was the students’ extent
of awareness in cyber –plagiarism. The third part of the survey was the extent of cyber- plagiarism behaviors of
the students as assessed by themselves and by their professors in education. The revised version of the
instrument underwent pilot study to 20 fourth year students in different campus of the University which was
randomly selected. The researcher used the Cronbach’s alpha since the survey used Likert scale. Reliability
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