Ethics gaps and ethics gains: Differences and similarities in mass communicartion students’ perceptions of plagiarism and fabrication

Journalism and Mass Communication Educator

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 127-145

  Conway, Mike ^a   Groshek, Jacob ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 85014962964     PISSN: 10776958     EISSN: 21614326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769580806300203     Document Type: Article

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66. While this school of journalism has not added “mass communication” to its name, it does encompass all vocational areas usually associated with a mass communication program.
67. All surveys have been filled out voluntarily, anonymously, without any form of reward or compensation. Researchers and course instructors have not been in the classroom at the time the students are given the surveys. The research was conducted following the rules of the university’s human subjects committee.
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69. The authors have taught only three sections of 78 under investigation, thereby mitigating threats to validity from observer-participant bias introduced by convenience sampling of only courses taught by the instructorhesearcher.
70. This approach takes into account that many of the students are counted twice a semester, at the start and again at the end of the course, and one of the statistical tests controls for this inevitability, which introduced no bias in the overall results of a previous study by the same authors.
71. Mike Conway and Jacob Groshek, “Forgive Me Now, Fire Me Later: Journalism Students’ Perceptions on Academic and Journalistic Ethics” (paper presented at the annual meeting of AEJMC, Washington, DC, August 2007).
72. Students could select more than one area of interest, which resulted in the total percentage over 100%.
73. Factor 1 demonstrated a Cronbach’s alpha (a)re liability score of.go, which indicated a very strong relationship where respondents ranked items 10,11, and 12 of the survey instrument (Appendix A) in a similar fashion. The reliability of the scale for Factor 2 was a =.78, which represents an acceptable level of cohesion of students’ responses to items 13,14, and 15 of the survey instrument (Appendix A).
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75. Conway and Groshek, “Forgive Me Now, Fire Me Later.”
76. There were also 588 students that indicated an interest in both journalistic and nonjournalistic areas in addition to 22 students that failed to identify any area of interest. Only journalistic and nonjournalistic groups were analyzed because differences between those two groups were the specific area of interest in this study, which reduced the sample size to 2,315 surveys.
77. (f(2256) = 8.32, p <.001) for Factor 1 and ($2256) = 3.26, p <.01) for Factor 2.
78. 2 =.007, observed power =.983) for Factor 2.
79. (B = 0.243, p <.001) for Factor 1 and (B = 0.151, p <.01) for Factor 2.
80. (B = -0.083, p <.05) for Factor 1 and (B = -0.092, p <.05) for Factor 2.
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90. The past two major surveys of mass communication ethics instructors also use the terms “journalism” and “journalist” in questions designed for instructors who presumably teach students with a variety of career interests.
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