In general, the integration of ICT in education is associated with specific advantages (access, search, selection, processing and use of information), mainly in terms of speed, quality and quantity. However, we found that it may also carry with it negative aspects such as the violation of copyright and plagiarism even though there seems to exist some confusion regarding what conduct constitutes plagiarism (Gullifer & Tyson, 2014). Comas, Sureda, Home & Morey (2011) showed that 77.2% of university students tend to use the resources found on the Internet to copy-paste whole or fragments of works. Unfortunately, the violation of copyrights is becoming a barrier to widespread development of e-learning practices (Wallace, 2006). Therefore, in higher education it is necessary to develop initiatives to defend and justify academic integrity (Gullifer & Tyson, 2014). The data presented here are part of a larger research entitled "Study of the Impact of Federated eRubrics on Assessing Competences in the Practicum" (Spanish Excellence Plan of R + D + i 2014-2016, No. EDU2013-41974P. http://goo.gl/DbjQBP). In this paper, we approach the issue of plagiarism and dishonest practices focusing on different forms of electronic evaluation of college students in education degree programmes. While some studies (e.g. Comas-Forgas & Sureda-Negre, 2010) focus on students’ perspective, in our study, we interviewed 55 academic managers from about 10 faculties of education in public universities in Spain (20%), and we analyse 376 university course guides from 36 public institutions in Spain (72%). The results show low concern for academically dishonest practices (plagiarism and violation of intellectual property), given that over 90% of the teaching guides do not explicitly mention this issue. At the same time, just over 30% of academic managers confirm that there exist norms for the protection of data and intellectual property and for the avoidance of plagiarism in the assessment of external practices (38.2%) and the FGP and Máster (32.7%). We conclude that much remains to be done in the faculties of education in Spanish universities to prevent the growth of a culture of "copy & paste".

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