{"id":230159,"date":"2026-04-01T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/does-ai-mean-more-uni-students-are-plagiarising-their-work\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T17:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T21:30:32","slug":"does-ai-mean-more-uni-students-are-plagiarising-their-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/01\/does-ai-mean-more-uni-students-are-plagiarising-their-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Does AI mean more uni students are plagiarising their work?<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/theconversation.com\/does-ai-mean-more-uni-students-are-plagiarising-their-work-279565<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-04-01 15:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: theconversation.com<\/a><\/p>\n

People using other peoples\u2019 ideas, words and creations without acknowledgement is a widespread problem. Plagiarism occurs everywhere from restaurant menus to political speeches and music. <\/p>\n

Within academia, plagiarism is seen as a serious breach of integrity for scholars and students. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s easy to find media articles claiming plagiarism is increasing among university students. These claims have intensified with the rise of generative AI \u2013 which can quickly produce large amounts of text that students can copy and paste into their assignments. <\/p>\n

But while AI certainly poses a range of challenges for academic integrity, is plagiarism increasing as much as we think it is?<\/p>\n

My team\u2019s new research, which has tracked students at one university over 20 years, suggests it may even be falling. <\/p>\n

What are we comparing?<\/h2>\n

Precise rates of plagiarism can be difficult to determine. Pre-AI, many claims about increasing plagiarism among students came from cherry picking results of different surveys from different student groups. So they were not comparing apples with apples. <\/p>\n

Since AI, we have have a lot of anecdotal reporting of cheating. But we do not have a lot of robust evidence of whether cheating has increased over time.<\/p>\n

In a new journal article, my colleagues and I have used a rare longitudinal study of plagiarism to overcome this problem. <\/p>\n

My research<\/h2>\n

Every five years since 2004, our study carried out the same survey on plagiarism with students at Western Sydney University (WSU). This means we have been able to track the same phenomena in the same environment over time.<\/p>\n

In our survey students are presented with scenarios representing different forms of plagiarism. For example, a student copying text from a book without citing the book. Students were asked whether the behaviour is plagiarism, to test their understanding of it, and how often, if ever, they have done a similar thing. In 2024, we also also asked students if they used text generated by AI…<\/p>\n

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