Qualitative findings identified plagiarism, student overreliance on AI, and a barrier of reconciling institutional policy gaps with personal ethical values¶

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q2 i? Interviews with fifteen educators confirmed challenges of plagiarism and student overreliance on AI and revealed an unexpected barrier: reconciling institutional policy gaps with personal ethical values. → Alharbi 2026

Evidence¶

Alharbi 2026¶

Alharbi, W., Hamid, S., Abbas, S., & Salieva, Z. (2026). Ethical Generative AI Integration in English for Academic Purposes within Higher Education: A Mixed-Methods Study. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice. https://doi.org/10.53761/xwb6h668

q2 · i? · qualitative · r?

Qualitative interview strand of the convergent mixed-methods study, in which 15 higher education educators were interviewed. The article reports that findings "confirmed challenges such as plagiarism and student overreliance on artificial intelligence" and revealed the policy-gap-versus-personal-values barrier; no effect size is printed.

"Qualitative findings confirmed challenges such as plagiarism and student overreliance on artificial intelligence, and revealed an unexpected barrier: reconciling institutional policy gaps with personal ethical values."

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