The Plagiarism Detection Systems for Higher Education - A Case Study in Saudi Universities

摘要

Plagiarism, cheating, and other types of academic misconduct are critical issues in higher education. Inthis study, we conducted two questionnaires, one for Saudi universities and another for Saudi students atdifferent Saudi universities to investigate their beliefs and perceptions about plagiarism tools.The first questionnaire was conducted to investigate to which degree the Saudi universities use plagiarismtools. Four universities responded to our questionnaire (KSU, Immamu, PSAU, and Shaqra University).The second questionnaire was used to investigate the user perceptions toward plagiarism tools in theiruniversities. Forty students responded to this questionnaire. Each student was answered 20 questions. Partof these questions is to measure the confidence of students in terms of referencing; another part is tomeasure the overall confidence to the system and evaluation of the students’ experience. The responsesindicate that the respondents believe that some questions reflect their own cases with the plagiarism duringtheir educational lifetime.