My Questionnaire
My Questionnaire
My Questionnaire
This survey questionnaire is served to identify the factors which act a barrier to research ethics & drive a student towards plagiarism. This research would help in devising the policies to overcome the rising phenomena of plagiarism. Before filling please consider the definition of plagiarism. Plagiarism: The act of copying someone else's work and publishing or presenting it as your own without giving credit to the original author.
Q #1: Students plagiarize if needed because their parents want them to get good grades? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#2: Students plagiarize if needed because their teachers want them to get good grades? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#3: Students with no pressure from parents and teachers plagiarize less? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#4: Good grades are necessary to get good job? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#5: Good job is necessary to be financially sound? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#6: Good job is an indicator of success of a person? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#7: Being rich is necessary to live respectfully in the society? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#8: Students plagiarize when they have less time to work on assignment? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#9: Students will not plagiarize if they are given enough time to work? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#10: On job students plagiarize because they have lesser time for studies? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#11: Students plagiarize because they dont know what actually plagiarism is? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#12: Students plagiarize because they are not guided properly? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#13: Students plagiarize because they do not know the consequences of plagiarism? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#14: It is acceptable routine to cheat in our society? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#15: In our routine life, we all use unfair means to get thing done, if needed? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#17: We are more likely to plagiarize when our fellows are doing the same? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#18: Before I came to university, plagiarism was explained to me at college or school? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#19: My teachers in past schooling highlighted and corrected my plagiarism mistakes? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#20: Course on Ethics was offered in any of my previous classes? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#21: Subjects on Ethics play important role in the ethical development of an individual? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#22: Ethical development plays an important in the choice of an act by an individual? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#23: In our rural institutes theres a little emphasis on ethical development? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Q#24: In our rural institutes, cheating is an acceptable act? 1.___ 2.___ 3.___ 4.___ 5.___
Personal Information:
Gender: Age: Male_____ Female_____ 20 to 30 years___ MS/PhD_____ above 30 years___
below 20 years___
MBA____