Article InformationVoelker, T.A., Love, L.G., & Pentina, I. (2012). Plagiarism: what don't they know?. Journal of Business Training, 87(1), 36-41. doi:10.1080/08832323.2011.552536Summary In the article What don't they know? “they” refers to students in higher education in the United States. The authors' intent was to begin to fill in some of the missing pieces that exist in the empirical study of what undergraduate and graduate-level students actually know about plagiarism. The authors, university-level business instructors, obtained their sample from that population at a single university, rightly recognizing that nonrandomness is a primary limitation of the study. Three research questions were addressed: 1) what are students' actual understandings of what constitutes plagiarism, 2) what do students understand about their role and responsibilities in academic honesty, and 3) what are the gaps in knowledge distributed equally across students and, if not, are there patterns in the discrepancies attributable to specific subgroups (e.g. Bachelor, Mast...