Academic Dishonesty
How Does Academic Dishonesty Affect You?
- It may affect your grade if scoring is based on a curve.
- It destroys "equal opportunity" in competitive atmospheres.
- It hinders development of self-reliance.
What Can You Do To Help?
- Ask direct questions of your faculty member regarding group work, getting help from other students, and expectations regarding AI use.
- Prepare thoroughly for examinations and assignments.
- Take the initiative to prevent other students from copying your exam or assignments by shielding your answer sheet during examination, and not lending assignments to other students.
- Inform your instructor if you suspect someone is cheating.
- Do not look in the direction of other students' papers during examinations.
- Refuse to assist students who cheat.
Examples of Academic Dishonesty
Any student who commits an act of academic dishonesty is subject to discipline. Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism (including self-plagiarism), collusion, the submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person without giving sufficient credit, taking an examination for another person, or any act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts. Some of the ways students may engage in academic dishonesty are:
- Changing a graded paper and requesting that it be graded again.
- Citing false references or findings in research or other academic exercises.
- Concealing notes on hands, caps, shoes, in pockets or the back of beverage bottle labels.
- Consulting assignment solutions posted on websites of previous course offerings.
- Coughing and/or using visual or auditory signals in a test.
- Destroying or removing library materials to gain an academic advantage.
- Downloading text from the Internet or other sources without proper attribution.
- Encircling two adjacent answers and claiming to have had the correct answer.
- Exchanging exams so that neighbors have identical test forms.
- Fabricating data for lab assignments.
- Failing to follow testing procedures for the purpose of academic advantage such as avoiding lock down browsers, turning off or obscuring the camera during testing, failing to keep the face in frame or following directives from the online testing system.
- Failing to turn in a test or assignment and later suggesting the faculty member lost the item.
- Having a substitute take a test and providing falsified identification for the substitute.
- Marking an answer sheet to enable another to see the answer.
- Obtaining copies of an exam in advance.
- Passing information from an earlier class to a later class
- Possession of any electronic device during testing or other academic practice without permission.
- Recording two answers, one on the test form, one on the answer sheet.
- Signing a roll sheet for someone who is not in attendance.
- Submitting a substantial portion of the same academic work more than once without written authorization from the instructor.
- Submitting a paper written by someone else. Submitting computer programs written by another person.
- Stealing an exam for someone in another section or for placement in a test file.
- Stealing another student’s graded test and affixing one’s own name on it.
- Taking another student’s computer assignment printout from a computer lab.
- Transferring a computer file from one person’s account to another.
- Transmitting posted answers for an exam to a student in a testing area via electronic device.
- Unauthorized collaborating with another person in preparing academic exercises.
- Using an electronic device to store test information or to send or receive answers for a test.
- Utilizing AI without authorization and/or citation.
- Writing in blue books prior to an examination.
- Writing information on blackboards, desks or keeping notes on the floor.