Assignment on Research Strategy of Plagiarism Awareness amongst high school students in Qatar

There are three types of research method or strategy, quantitative method, qualitative method, and mixed method, according to Burns and Grove cited by Cormack (1991) quantitative method is based on positivism paradigm, and a researcher who follows a positivism paradigm can only use a quantitative approach. In Quantitative way all the data is in the numeric form, and quantitative research large sampling can be used by the researcher and on that statistical data various tests like mean, mod and median will be applied to check the validity of the data and through quantitative method the relationship between the variables through the test correlation can be found. This approach is objective and deductive (Grove, 1991).

In this research, the researcher used a quantitative method and followed a positivist paradigm. The reason behind choosing this quantitative method is that there is a short period and the research is conducted from few cities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Through a quantitative approach, the researcher gets a valid result in less time by putting the data into SPSS 16.0 software. For this research close-ended questionnaire is developed as an instrument for data collection and the data is collected from the mangers of the airline companies.

 Sampling and Population of Plagiarism Awareness amongst high school students in Qatar

Sampling and population is the one of the most important and essential elements in the quantitative research study because participants and people who are involved in any research study are the considered as important. Their reviews are other most important things to attain the objective of the research study. In the said study population is the teachers of the secondary School. In order to conduct this study the simple random sampling technique is particularly used and it also includes the purposive sampling technique.  In the said study sampling is considered in such manners that the employees of the various schools who are teaching at secondary level. This sample is selected for ensuring the data of the high quality. The sample of research is contains on the 70respondents who are the school teachers at secondary level. This sample is particularly selected for the comparison of the data that has been attained from the respondents for making sure the consistency and reliability of the data. From total 70 teachers who are the participants of the study all of these are engaged in replying this study in effective manners. The purposive and simple random sampling technique is the good source to collecting the data from the respondents according to the ease and comfort level of the respondents.

Data Collection Method of Plagiarism Awareness amongst high school students in Qatar

An online questionnaire via Survey Monkey will be used to gather the data. The questionnaire link will be shared with the school to be distributed to teachers through an online platform. Using an online questionnaire is beneficial to the study by providing the immediate availability of digital data, which will save time and reduce the number of errors when transferring data from paper to the programme for analysis. The survey monkey is usually consider as one of the most important and best tool which enables the person to launch any kind of the data for the project of the online survey. This survey is particularly used for the attaining the market research purpose. It is also considered as the competitive analysis, quick pool and feedback of the customers and employees. This is the good source or software that assists the person in order to run and create professional online survey. It is also considered as the one of the most important famous online applications. This is the good software for piping the answers and their questions by skipping the logic. It also offers the validations of the answers. The trend tracking is particularly provided by this software. By using this software an unlimited questions per survey can be answered. It also offers the chances of the quizzes along with the feedback custom.

Data Collection Instrument (Questionnaires)

This research is a study conducted by using the adopted questionnaire in which demographic questions are included (age, gender, and designation), and this questionnaire is close-ended questionnaire which is designed by considering the five-point Likert scale which is ranges from strongly agree to disagree strongly. The question are designed by considering the both variables as; Awareness and attitude.

Moreover, this was distributed or sent to the teachers of the secondary school for getting the proper responses. The researcher has met to the mangers of few one people too for filling the questionnaire. Where reaching was impossible email send out for receiving the answers via email. For this research, the questionnaires method was used under a quantitative approach.

To answer the research questions, this study will utilise a quantitative research method. The study relies on data collection through a questionnaire distributed to the target group of the study with the aim of obtaining information about and perceptions of the level of awareness and attitudes amongst students regarding plagiarism. To determine the level of plagiarism awareness and attitudes towards plagiarism, teachers  will be given questionnaires divided into two parts. The first part focusses on the students’ awareness and includes a number of statements, which constitute different acts of plagiarism. The second part of the questionnaire focusses on the students’ attitudes toward plagiarism using different scenarios that lead to plagiarism. teachers indicate their students attitudes towards these scenarios by choosing from five different answers on a Likert scale.

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