이 연구는 한국 대학생의 학문 공동체 윤리에 관한 것으로, 경 기 소재 4년제 종합대학교 대학생 1,200여명을 대상으로 한 실태 조사에 기 초하여 한국 대학 사회의 학문 공동체 윤리 현황에 대해 분석해 보았다. 본 연구의 조사 결과 대학생들의 학문 공동체 윤리 상황은 매우 심각하였다. 매 우 많은 학생들에게서 다양한 위반 경험이 보고되었는데, 특히 인터넷 자료 짜깁기 경험은 거의 대부분의 학생들이 경험한 바 있으며 또한 그 어떤 행위 보다도 자주 행하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 그리고 학생들의 위반 경험 양상 은 각 행위에 대한 학생들의 평가와 조응하여, 엄격한 평가를 내리는 항목일 수록 덜 위반하였고 허용적인 기준을 갖고 있을수록 더 많이 위반하였다. 이러한 위반 경험과 행위에 대한 평가는 개인적 요인과 맥락적 요인으로 설 명할 수 있다. 많은 선행연구에서 가장 유의미한 맥락적 요인으로 지적된 동 료들의 행위에 대한 대응이라는 문항을 가지고 개인적 요인과의 설명력 비교 를 해 보았을 때, 성별이나 학년ㆍ소속 같은 개인적 요인보다는 맥락적 요인 이 더 많은 영향을 미치는 것으로 드러났다. 학문적 충실성이 제대로 실현되기 위해서는 구성원의 의식 변화와 그것을 견인하고 유지할 수 있는 제도적 정비가 함께 갖춰져야 한다. 한국의 대학 사 회가 학문 공동체 윤리 정립에 대해서 특히 제도적 정비가 아직은 많이 미흡한 상태이지만 그 필요성에 대한 인식이 점차 확대되고 있으므로 앞으로 많 은 변화가 있으리라 기대된다.

The purpose of this research is to study the academic ethics of Korean college students. For this purpose, a survey was made for 1,200 students of a 4-year university located in Gyeonggi Province, Korea. The analysis of the survey research shows a seriously scant regard for ethics of the college students. Numerous cases of ethical violation were reported; most students have plagiarized another person’s postings from the Internet, which turned out to be the most common misdeeds in the campus. And the level of transgression corresponded with the student’s evaluation of each deed, – in case of a deed they usually consider highly immoral, they showed the tendency of less violation of it; when they have more permissive standard toward a deed, they violated it more often. These ethical transgression and violation of college students can be explained by individual factor and contextual factor. To see which explains the students’ethical sense better, I compared the individual factor with the response to the peer behaviors, which was pointed out as the most significant contextual factor in many precedent studies on this subject. The result proved that the contextual factor has stronger influence on the transgressions and violations. To boost academic integrity in the universities, the students need to improve their ethical awareness, and an institutional environment to bring about and spearhead the positive change in students needs to be set up at the same time. Most of the universities in Koreaare still lack of such institutional framework to establish the academic ethics; however, further changes are expected in the future as the need for such system is widely shared.

The purpose of this research is to study the academic ethics of Korean college students. For this purpose, a survey was made for 1,200 students of a 4-year university located in Gyeonggi Province, Korea. The analysis of the survey research shows a seriously scant regard for ethics of the college students. Numerous cases of ethical violation were reported; most students have plagiarized another person’s postings from the Internet, which turned out to be the most common misdeeds in the campus. And the level of transgression corresponded with the student’s evaluation of each deed, – in case of a deed they usually consider highly immoral, they showed the tendency of less violation of it; when they have more permissive standard toward a deed, they violated it more often. These ethical transgression and violation of college students can be explained by individual factor and contextual factor. To see which explains the students’ethical sense better, I compared the individual factor with the response to the peer behaviors, which was pointed out as the most significant contextual factor in many precedent studies on this subject. The result proved that the contextual factor has stronger influence on the transgressions and violations. To boost academic integrity in the universities, the students need to improve their ethical awareness, and an institutional environment to bring about and spearhead the positive change in students needs to be set up at the same time. Most of the universities in Koreaare still lack of such institutional framework to establish the academic ethics; however, further changes are expected in the future as the need for such system is widely shared.

Academic Ethics, Academic Integrity, Honor Codes, Individual Factor, Contextual Factor, Peer Behavior