Study of plagiarism and plagiarism detection applications: Case study of Czech University

Bc. Evgeniia Artemenkova

Master's thesis

Abstract:

The main objective of this diploma thesis lies in the analysis of the plagiarism phenomenon in a selected Czech University, where the author analyzes the attitude of students towards plagiarism, the attitude of teachers towards the same issue and ways of tackling similar issues. In the end, the author comes up with an evaluation of the most prominent and widely used plagiarism detection tools in the Czech Republic and chooses the best based on the personal evaluation and also evaluation of students and teachers. For the methodology of the work, the author incorporates a large variety of quantitative and qualitative techniques. To be more specific, the author uses two questionnaires to capture essential data related to the attitude towards plagiarism, conducts a series of structured interviews with professors from a selected Czech University and consequently, conducts a multi-criteria decision analysis process according to the simple additive method, where the best application is selected. In the conclusion, the author comes up to the realization that plagiarism is a serious problem in the selected institution, which becomes even more concerning as artificial intelligence programs are used more and more by students. Ultimately, the author suggests that the best plagiarism detection tool based on the evaluation from the MCDA analysis is Moodle CZU with the Turnitin plugin pre-installed.

Keywords

plagiarism, behavior, applications, case study, undergraduate students

Language used: English

Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 3. 4. 2023

Thesis defence

• Date of defence: 22. 5. 2023
• Supervisor: John Phillip Sabou, Ph.D.
• Reader: Alexandr Vasilenko, externi

Czech University of Life Sciences Prague

Faculty of Economics and Management

Master programme:
Economics and Management