This study presents the findings of a survey of 1,140 students from 4-year colleges in the United States about their views on the pervasiveness of plagiarism, the training that they have received to identify and refrain from it, and even if they have been accused of it. The study also presents student views on their own use, and instructor use, of plagiarism detection software and other applications, and views of the fairness and desired use levels of such programs. In addition, the report gives highly detailed data on student views of the use of "paper mills", of the hiring of fellow students to write papers for other students, and of the copying of non-attributed passages from websites. This study helps colleges to define the dimensions of the plagiarism problem and to develop effective means of combatting it.

Data in the report is presented in the aggregate and then broken out separately for sixteen different variables including but not limited to: college grades, gender, income level, year of college standing, SAT/ACT scores, regional origin, age, sexual orientation, race & ethnicity, college major and other personal variables, and by Carnegie class, enrollment size and public/private status of the survey participants institutions of higher education.