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KMID : 1094020150320020174
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Journal of Veterinary Clinics
2015 Volume.32 No. 2 p.174 ~ p.179
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A Matter of Professionalism: Academic Misconduct of Veterinary Students
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Chun Myung-Sun
Ryu Pan-Dong
Yoon Jung-Hee
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Abstract
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Academic integrity guarantees the professional integrity and validity of the education and qualificationsoffered by the veterinary schools. In this study, we analyzed the responses of 528 veterinary students of two veterinaryschools in Seoul regarding their awareness about, knowledge of, and frequency of engaging in academic misconduct. A total of 88.4 percent of the participants agreed that cheating and plagiarism by undergraduates would influence theirfuture academic misconduct. The most common form of academic misconduct was plagiarism (71.7% in the A school,69.5% in the B school), with falsification (40.2% in the A school, 31.7% in the B school) also reported at a highrate. Students indicated the lack of a culture of academic integrity as the main reason for academic misconduct. According to the regression analysis students’ awareness and knowledge of academic integrity and their perceptionof peers’ academic misconduct predicted a significant amount of variance of the frequency of academic misconduct. The findings of this study support that academic integrity should be learned in a flexible format from an early stageof professional development in veterinary curriculum. In parallel with the efforts of faculty, a community approachmay be likely to improve the academic environment in terms of integrity.
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KEYWORD
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academic misconduct, veterinary student, professionalism
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