Measuring Chinese Engineering Students' Perceptions of and Attitudes Toward Plagiarism

This article reports on a disciplinary study of Chinese university students' perceptions of and attitudes toward plagiarism in the context of Chinese educational background. A sample of 119 engineering undergraduates rated their (dis)agreement with 26 items using a five-point Likert scale. Qualitative and quantitative analyses revealed that Chinese engineering students tended to hold a much stronger stance against plagiarism than their foreign...