Table 1 Descriptive Plagiarism Results at BUV
From: Reducing plagiarism through academic misconduct education
| Â | Semester start date | Number of assignment submissions | Number of detected cases of plagiarism | Plagiarism cases as percentage of assignment submission | Number of detected Contract Cheating cases | Contract Cheating cases as percentage of plagiarism cases | Contract Cheating cases as percentage of assignment submissions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Results prior to the introduction of the AEM intervention | April 2014 | 642 | 33 | 5.14% | 1 | 3.03% | 0.16% |
October 2014 | 715 | 21 | 2.94% | 1 | 4.76% | 0.14% | |
April 2015 | 933 | 37 | 3.97% | 1 | 2.70% | 0.11% | |
October 2015 | 847 | 60 | 7.08% | 8 | 13.33% | 0.94% | |
Results following the introduction of the AEM intervention | April 2016 | 872 | 31 | 3.56% | 3 | 9.69% | 0.34% |
October 2016 | 799 | 55 | 6.88% | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% | |
April 2017 | 994 | 39 | 3.92% | 1 | 2.56% | 0.10% | |
October 2017 | 1064 | 43 | 4.04% | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% | |
April 2018 | 940 | 31 | 3.30% | 1 | 3.23% | 0.10% | |
October 2018 | 1492 | 9 | 0.60% | 1 | 11.11% | 0.07% | |
April 2019 | 1577 | 37 | 2.35% | 2 | 5.41% | 0.13% | |
October 2019 | 2062 | 52 | 2.52% | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% | |
Total/Average before AEM: | 3137 | 151 | 4.81% | 11 | 7.28% | 0.35% | |
Total/Average after AEM | 9800 | 297 | 3.03% | 8 | 2.69% | 0.08% | |
Total/Average overall: | 12,937 | 448 | 3.46% | 19 | 4.24% | 0.15% | |