Plagiarism on Controlled Documents: A case study from University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren

The issue of plagiarism has only become a recent priority in Kosovo, some public universities have taken steps to create their anti-plagiarism system which is one of the methods that are being done to prevent plagiarism. The only public University that has implemented the anti-plagiarism system in Kosovo is the University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren. The research is based on the dataset obtained from the University “Ukshin Hoti” Prizren. In this paper, the data extracted from the SAP anti-plagiarism software of the University “Ukshin Hoti” for the controlled documents from 17.11.2020 to 19.01.2021 are analyzed. Initially, we will examine the frequency distribution analyzes for faculties, levels of studies, the status of documents, and the type of documents were extracted from the dataset. Then, we show descriptive statistics for local similarity, URL similarity, character, and word count. After the descriptive statistics, we are going to analyze the One-Way ANOVA for similarity, local similarity, and URL Similarity by faculty. Also, by the T- Test, we analyzed differences in similarity rates by study level and document type. The results obtained show that there are significant differences between faculties in terms of plagiarism ratio. Also, there are differences of plagiarism according to the type of documents. However, no significant difference was found in plagiarism according to the level of studies.