Copyleaks Inc.’s worldwide study of 1,200 students shows a dramatic 141% increase in plagiarism and academic dishonesty | news

STAMFORD, Conn., August 20, 2021 / PRNewswire-PRWeb / – Copyleaks Inc., a leading platform for plagiarism detection using AI and machine learning, today announced the results of a study of 1,209 students from around the world that found an alarming increase in plagiarism from the effects of COVID -19. The report, produced through a detailed analytical assessment of millions of records from before (2019-2020) and during (2020-2021) COVID-19 periods, shows the terrifying impact of global bans on academic integrity.

Copyleaks helps educational institutions and students worldwide effectively minimize academic dishonesty through its advanced plagiarism detection platform built into the learning management system of choice by the institution. Once integrated, teachers can review student work directly in their ecosystem.

“We heard concerns from our university partners and members of the educational community about the increasing number of cases of academic dishonesty in their institutions as the global pandemic hit,” said Alon Yamin, CEO and Co-Founder of Copyleaks. “These conversations continue to grow. As a company that works really hard to improve academic integrity standards around the world, we felt a moral obligation to research the data from the submissions of thousands of students and share the results with the world. And all of this while maintaining the confidentiality of the students and the anonymity of the data. “

The study found that educational institutions around the world are adopting the fully online learning model in April 2020, an average of 49.6% of all works submitted by students were plagiarized.

While plagiarism has increased in student submissions around the world, the effects of COVID-19-induced bans are more evident in some countries than others. Most of Europe and Australia recorded a slight increase in plagiarism in student work. France had the highest result with a 124% change, followed by Australia at 122%, UK at 119% and Germany at 116%. In contrast, countries are like Brazil and India Faced with prolonged COVID-19 lockdowns and limited technological infrastructure availability resulted in a more pronounced change in academic dishonesty, 147% and 144% respectively.

The study’s data also shows that over the past year students have shown a unique audacity in their dishonest approaches. They went beyond typical plagiarism patterns and turned to very naive methods such as literal copying. In quantitative terms, the plagiarism rate for student work increased significantly, with the identical match content reportedly increasing by 39%, while the paraphrased content increased by 31%.

Historically, plagiarism has been an ongoing problem in higher education, but as high schools move to distance learning too, increases in the K-12 level have also been seen. High school student submissions saw an average increase in plagiarism of 43%, which was much higher than the average increase in student submissions of 29%.

“There is a growing need to reduce plagiarism in science, more now and in second and third world countries where plagiarism was not an actively discussed issue prior to COVID-19,” Yamin continued.

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A copy of Copyleaks’ biannual media report with the results of this study is also available on the Copyleaks media page. In addition, all media questions can be sent to [email protected] and sales inquiries to [email protected].

Copyleaks is available to academic institutions either through the Copyleaks plagiarism detection website or the LMS App Directories.

About copyleaks:

Copyleaks is an AI and machine learning based plagiarism detection platform that identifies and tracks plagiarized content online. Using advanced algorithms, Copyleaks’ plagiarism detection platform searches content across billions of websites, online knowledge bases, subscription-only magazines, private repositories, internal databases and some password-protected websites, and ultimately provides comprehensive and accurate results of similar content, including paraphrased content in over 100 human languages ​​as well as over 20 programming languages ​​and source code. Copyleaks provides an all-in-one solution for education and business, including an AI-based high-volume review platform and the ability to see if source code has been copied using the Codeleaks tool. Copyleaks is available to educational institutions of all sizes, from private and public K-12 schools, universities, and other academic institutions.

Media contact

Anmol Kumar, Copyleaks, 6462703367, [email protected]

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