ABSTRACT
STUDENTS’ PERCEPTION, ATTITUDE, AND AWARENESS ON PLAGIARISM
(A Correlation Study at Language Education Department Graduate Program of Halu Oleo University)
BY
ANJAS ASMARA
A1D211048
The objective of this study was to find out students’ perception, attitude, and awareness on plagiarism and how those variables correlate each other. This research is conducted to English postgraduate student in Halu Oleo University. This study applied descriptive quantitative approach. The population of this study was all of the posgraduate students in Language department of Postgraduate depatment who were registered in academic year 2017. The total of the population was 27 students and they were distributed into 2 classes. The technique of taking sample of this study was whole population sampling. In this study, the researcher used all of population as sample. The instrument of this study was questioner. The finding of this research shows that students’perception, attitude and awareness score mostly in high level. This statement is proved by the data which show that the mean score of perception is 73.40 while for attitude and awareness are 72.40 and 71.05. The result of hypothesis testing of correlation test also shows that the p- value for each correlation is lesser than sig (2-tailed). It can be inferred that H0 is rejected and H1 is accepted for each correlation with coefficient value: 0.909, 0.925, and 0.861. In this case, it can be concluded that there is a significant correlation with high level of correlation among perception, attitude, and awareness on plagiarism.
Keywords: Plagiarism, Perception, Attitude, awareness