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Title

'Plagiarism' and the Confucian Heritage Culture (CHC) student : broadening the concept before blaming the student

Author(s)

Brennan, Linda;  Durovic, Juliana

Abstract

This 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 such as China, Singapore, and Malaysia 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.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Business and Enterprise

Source

Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy (ANZMAC) Conference 2005, 5-7 December 2005, Fremantle, Western Australia, pp. 30-38

Publication year

2005

Publisher

University of Western Australia Press

Format

pp. 30-38

ISBN

064645546X

Publisher URL

http://www.anzmac.org/proceedings

Copyright

Copyright

Peer reviewed