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analysis revealed that the research tool have higher over-all reliability value (alpha=.89) compared to the cut-off
value (alpha= .80).
Ethical Considerations
Approval to conduct the study was obtained from the different sectors including the President of the
university through the administrative dean of the campus, the research director and the respondents of the study
which includes the students and teachers in the College of Education.
During the conduct of the study, the respondents were given free will to answer the survey tool on their
awareness and cyber-plagiarism behaviors. Aside from this, the researcher guaranteed to the respondents that the
information would not be made available to anyone who has not directly involved in the study.
Gathering of Data
A written informed consent was furnished and provided to the research locale and to the respondents. The
researcher personally gathers the data since the student-respondents are his students. The student- respondents as
well as the teachers were informed about the purpose of the study before the questionnaires were distributed.
The survey tools were retrieved after which these were tabulated and subjected for statistical analysis.
Statistical Treatment
The statistical techniques used for in depth analysis and interpretation of data were frequency and percentage
and weighted mean, t-test and Spearman’s r correlation of coefficient. The sum of the weighted mean of the
respondents was based on the range from the Likert scale used.
Results
Most Commonly Used Search Engine
Majority of the students use google as their reference for their paper works. The findings will help the
teachers and future educators to verify if there are traces of plagiarism in the paper works submitted by students.
Even though google can be used to detect plagiarized paper works, Conradson, Stacey and Ramos (2004)
stressed in their studies that technology-based tools for detecting plagiarized school work have evolved. Some
schools deploy services of TurnItIn.com, InteriGuard, WorkCheck Software, and Essay Verification Engine (
Eve 2.2).
Extent of Awareness in the Acts of Cyber-plagiarism
Table 1 presents the fourth year education students extent of awareness in the different acts of cyberplagiarism.
As observed, there was indeed a high extent of awareness in the grand mean which is 3.71 indicating
that majority of the respondents are knowledgeable and understand these acts. Despite of these findings, Tsang
(2006) stressed that continual efforts to educate the students about cyber-plagiarism are desirable in upholding
academic integrity.
Table 1. Summary of the Respondent's Extent of Awareness in Cyber-plagiarism
Indicators
529
Mean
Verbal
Interpretation
1. Claiming submitting another’s paper work or creation as own work. 4.22 High Extent
2.Combines partially or the entire cited sources with copied passages without citation. 3.90 High Extent
3.Contains significant portions of text from a single source without changing the ideas. 3.90 High Extent
4. Mixes copied material from two or more sources. 4.04 High Extent
5. Paraphrases the ideas from multiple sources and tried to make them fit together. 3.90 High Extent
6. Annotated the source/s but the information is inaccurate about sources. 3.24 Moderate Extent
7. Includes proper citation to sources but all the contents were copy pasted. 3.70 High Extent
8 Buying or purchasing paper from the internet and claim it as your own work. 3.22 Moderate Extent