Disadvantages of being Unaware of Plagiarism among Grade 12 Performing Arts Students of Bestlink College of the Philippines: Basis for Proposed Guidelines

Abstract

Plagiarism is presenting someone else’s work or ideas as your own without their consent by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgment and owning it as your original work. Many of today’s generation is not fully oriented of what is the disadvantages of being unaware of plagiarism. Quantitative research was used as the research design in the study based on numeric figures or numbers, and the descriptive method was used to describe the characteristic of a specific population. The study utilized purposive sampling to select 50 Grade 12 Performing Arts students to answer a questionnaire prepared by the researchers in assessing the disadvantages of being unaware of plagiarism among students. The results of the study are the following. The variables of the disadvantages of being unaware of plagiarism are academic performance, self-confidence, and skills and talents. The respondents strongly agreed that the lack of awareness of plagiarism affects the students’ development in terms of academic performance, with a weighted mean of 4 for male respondents and 4.06 for female respondents. The respondents strongly agreed that the lack of awareness of plagiarism affects the students’ development in terms of self-confidence, with a weighted mean of 4.08 for male respondents and 4.05 for female respondents. The respondents strongly agreed that the lack of awareness of plagiarism affects the students’ development in terms of skills and talents, with a weighted mean of 3.62 for male respondents and 3.66 for female respondents. The researchers concluded that the difference between the assessments of the two groups of respondents is not significant.