Detection of plagiarism in physics post laboratory reports by college students

Authors

Joseph Vermont B. Bandoy Department of Physics, Mapúa Institute of Technology
Doebner Von C. Tumacder Department of Physics, Mapúa Institute of Technology
Maria Teresa R. Pulido Department of Physics, Mapúa Institute of Technology
Dante J. Sauquillo Department of Physics, Mapúa Institute of Technology

Abstract

In this research, students who are taking non-engineering Physics Laboratory courses were asked to answer a survey involving, their knowledge in plagiarism and the attitudes towards plagiarism. The first part of the research consists of students' knowledge on plagiarism by letting the students answer the questionnaires. Then, 207 laboratory reports were analyzed to determine the trends on how students construct their post laboratory reports. Interestingly, there is a strong positive correlation between the scores from the post laboratory reports, which means to say that students tend to copy more even if they are aware that it is unethical.

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Issue

2016: Proceedings of the 34th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Conference

Article ID

SPP-2016-2B-01

Section

Health Physics, Plasma Physics, and Physics Education

Published

2016-08-18

How to Cite

[1]

JVB Bandoy, DVC Tumacder, MTR Pulido, and DJ Sauquillo, Detection of plagiarism in physics post laboratory reports by college students, Proceedings of the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas 34, SPP-2016-2B-01 (2016). URL: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2016-2B-01.