2nd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Conference
Abstract
‘Plagiarism' and the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) Student
Dr Linda Brennan - Swinburne University of Technology
Ms Juliana Durovic - Monash International P/LThis paper presents the results of a survey into students preferred learning styles and their propensity to cheat. The survey was conducted in a large Australian University with a high proportion of international students. Anecdotal evidence suggested that students from CHC backgrounds were more likely to cheat and more likely to use surface learning strategies than their westernised peers. The results demonstrate that this is not true of all students and further that perceptions of what constitutes cheating are not the same across cultures.
Keywords: academic integrity, transnational education, values, cross-cultural dimensions
