...Is the honor code necessary if many students refuse to even recognize the legitimacy of their honor code? High schools and colleges are trying to enforce this system of set rules to prevent plagiarism among students but it does not seem to be quite effective . Therefore whether schools maintain, revise, or eliminate the honor code, I believe our school should revise the honor code because if it is not student enforced, students will choose to ignore it and will not be effective. The honor code is not effective if students see it as just another rule to obey. I noticed that many students at my school are not fully aware of the honor code or even the penalties that follow it. A student senator from Lawrence Academy says that, “ Many students thought that a pledge of honor for each piece of paper submitted was excessive, but a less frequent pledge of honor could be a helpful reminder of their responsibilities.” (Source B) This shows that the student driven revision helped to gain student approval for the honor code. Research done at Rutgers University by professor Donald L. McCabe, says that “ students at colleges with honor codes—typically student-enforced—cheat less than their counterparts elsewhere do.” Although this is a college source, the evidence still applies to all students because everyone sets the same expectations for their...
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...onor codes have been around for quite a while, and at times, they can be efficient and work well, but as important and possibly useful honor codes are, I believe that my school should continue to not have honor codes. It could prevent academic dishonesty, but at times, people could blatantly ignore it, or others would call it unnecessarily complex. Whenever an honor code was created, there had been a bit of controversy surrounding the code. According to source B, “Many students, including members of the senate, were quick to criticize it.” Their criticisms included that the honor code would become “Another rule to obey”, or it would be too tiring and excessive to “write on every piece of work submitted.” With a lot of controversy, it would...
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...The use of a so-called honor code or honor system is put in place to watch for academic dishonesty. This is referring to any type of cheating that takes place in relation to a formal academic exercise. Some argue that having an honor code will just be another rule to break or an “annoying obstacle” that kids find a loophole through (Source F). There are many factors that schools must consider when putting in place a system this complicated. My school should establish an honor code to eliminate academic misconduct, provide an equal chance to succeed, and help promote a healthy learning environment. First, honor codes must be put in place to rid of any type of academic misconduct in the classroom. Having this showcase would prove the “importance...
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...as a result I have seen students cheating during exams daily; however, I have also seen administrators busting huge cheating scandals just as much. My school’s system centers around having every student sign the honor code, but it is only working because the school has an academic integrity committee ran by teachers, students, and parents, who deal with the cheaters. An honor code enforced by peers creates an alternate motive for students rather than the typical school punishments. School punishment, such as detention or suspension, have not been effective enough in changing the student’s perception on cheating because they either don’t care about the punishment or get used to it. (Source F) The author mentions that with the students running the committee for cheating, those who cheat develop a sense of fear of being embarrassed in front of their fellow peers for...
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...“Research confirms recent media concerning the night levels of cheating that exist in many American high schools, with roughly two-thirds of students acknowledging one or more incidents of explicit cheating in the last year” (source F). What exactly does this mean? Cheating and plagiarizing is not something that has been known as new to us. According to research in source f it is very common to cheat in American High schools. The Senate has been trying to enforced honor codes in not only high schools but colleges as well. But, taking all of the information provided into account, my school should eliminate the honor code in total. As alyssa vangeli mentions in her excerpt, her school, a private boarding school, Lawrence Academy when they first...
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...Honor Code Connections Education (“Connections”), a virtual school dedicated to student achievement at the highest level, expects academic honesty to be a core value for all its students, parents, and staff. By making the choice to enroll in an alternative program, our students (and/or their parents or legal guardians) have taken charge of their education and demonstrated a genuine desire to fulfill their academic potential. Cheating, plagiarizing, or other acts of academic dishonesty are directly counter to the principles of academic excellence and harm most those students who engage in such activities—they cheat themselves of the opportunity to fully develop their intellectual abilities. Our Honor Code serves to reinforce our students’ commitment to academic excellence, and all students must sign this Honor Code as part of the Connections enrollment process. As a Connections student, I know that academic honesty is critical to my own success, as well as to the mission of my School. I also understand that an Honor Code is, by its nature, limited not only to those situations spelled out in the code, but includes the spirit of honesty and ethics implied by the written code. I agree that I will uphold not only the letter of this code but also its implied intent of ongoing commitment to full academic honesty. I agree that I will … • never submit work of any kind that is not my own, nor ever give my work to other students to submit as their own. • never post exam or quiz answers...
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...return your admission decision: • Print a copy of this file and save it for your records. Your printed copy will include your application as submitted, along with your Official Document Request. Pay your application fee. If you haven’t already, please pay your application fee. You can return to your application to pay it online with a credit card, or you can send a check to the Office of Admissions at the address below. Ask your high school guidance counselor to submit your transcript. Bring your Official Document Request to your counselor as soon as possible. Instructions for your counselor on how to submit these items are included on the form. Let your counselor know that the sooner we receive your support materials, the sooner you’ll get a decision. Make sure we receive your test scores. If you didn’t request for your SAT or ACT scores to be sent to ACU when you took the test, you can do so online right now. For your SAT scores, go to http://www.collegeboard.com – our code is 6001. For your ACT scores, go to http://www.actstudent.org – our code is 4050. • • • Thanks for sending us these materials as soon as possible. We’re looking forward to finding out more about you and considering you for ACU’s Entering Class of 2014! Blessings, Tamara Long Director of Enrollment Services Abilene Christian University ACU Box 29000 Abilene, Texas 79699-9000 P.S. We’d love the chance to meet you, give you a tour of campus and introduce you to current students and faculty. We...
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...7/21/2014 My Personal Code of Ethics | Conscious Incompetence Conscious Incompetence Life After College A.K.A The Real World Feeds: Posts Comments My Personal Code of Ethics July 28, 2010 by vlc29 (http://consciousincompetence.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/personal-code1.jpg)DISCLAIMER: A major assignment in my Ethics for Public Relations Professionals class was to write a personal code of ethics that will later be used in my Capstone class at the end of my master’s program. I have been writing my personal code for several weeks, and I am very excited about the finished product. I think that I will hold myself more accountable for living my life according to this code if it is public information. I realize that it is a little long, especially for a blog post, but I thought I would share anyways. Enjoy! Background My personal values act as a basis for distinguishing between right and wrong and thus, determine my daily actions and emotions. My parents and education have played profound roles in the development of my core personal values: personal integrity, excellence, responsibility, family http://consciousincompetence.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/my-personal-code-of-ethics/ 1/9 7/21/2014 My Personal Code of Ethics | Conscious Incompetence and ambition. Additionally, these influences have demonstrated certain rule-based, ends-based, and virtue-based approaches to determining what conduct is consistent with these key values. Through her own actions, my mom has taught...
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...Instructor: Phuc Vu Project 3: Annotated bibliography Academic Actions, Academic Integrity Chace, William M. “A Question of Honor.” The American Scholar 81.2 (2012): 20-32. Academic Search Premier. Web. 22 Mar. 2013. Chace raises our awareness about many problems that American higher education is confronting such as the decreasing of quality and student integrity. At first, he pointed out the declining of academic quality. The tuition fee is raising, but the outcome is not. Then he tells us the biggest reason that causes the problem – it is academic dishonesty. Later, Chace highlights why students cheat and how college cheating damages academic integrity and harms collegiate institutions’ reputations. Finally, he strongly states “To do nothing is not an answer”; therefore, we must find some solutions. William Chase is both President and Professor of English Emeritus at Emory University as well as Honorary Professor of English Emeritus at Stanford University. The American Scholar, the publisher of this article is a very famous magazine in American, as they describes themselves in the website “The American Scholar is the venerable but lively quarterly magazine of public affairs, literature, science, history, and culture published by the Phi Beta Kappa Society since 1932. In recent years the magazine has won five National Magazine Awards, the industry’s highest honor, and been nominated for awards sixteen times. Many of its essays and articles have been selected for the yearly Best American...
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...even though there are no specific verses in the bible referencing the way people should use technology. Doing all for the glory of God encompasses my actions and attitudes in their entirety. It is not only how I use them but also what I do through them. I will respect the software creator and programmers by paying for the software as opposed to illegally downloading it online; in the same way I will only use the program for good rather than a means of disgracing people or falsifying information. Computers and the systems that go on them are all incredibly useful for different operations in life and I believe we should not tarnish that helpfulness. Ethical situations involving computers and software arise frequently. High school and college students are continuously plagued with propaganda about illegalities of downloading music, movies, and software programs from online. It is a serious problem happening all around the world, depriving artists and stores from hard earned money. The right way to go about building a media library would not be to stock up on free downloads but to instead pay for the media, an outcome that does not resonate with the current generation. Software programs are also taken from online but cost a lot more money than a couple of stolen songs. These programs are used to create other things, whether for school or personal use, causing this degradation to spread like veins through other aspects of life. The right way to go about this problem is paying for...
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...we can review your application and give you an admission decision. Step 1: print thiS packet and keep it for your recordS. This packet contains this checklist, the Counselor and Teacher Evaluation forms and your application as submitted. Step 2: pay your application fee. You may submit your fee online or by mail. To submit your fee by mail, send your check or money order made payable to TCU to this address: Office of Admission Texas Christian University TCU Box 297013 Fort Worth, Texas 76129 Step 3: have your official tranScript and teSt ScoreS Submitted. Your guidance counselor can include your scores on your transcript. Or you can ask ACT to send us your scores at www.actstudent.org (our ACT code is 4206). If you’d prefer to submit your SAT scores, go to www.collegeboard.com (our SAT code is 6820). We look forward to reviewing your application! Raymond A. Brown Dean of Admission Texas Christian University P.S. If you haven’t already, please visit TCU soon. To schedule a visit or to ask any further questions, please call 800-828-3764. Texas Christian University • TCU Box 297013 • Fort Worth, Texas 76129 COUNSELOR EVALUATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE ADMISSION & SCHOLARSHIP CONSIDERATION Required for all freshmen – not required for transfers. The student's application file is not complete until this evaluation is returned to TCU. This document does not become part of the applicant's permanent record at TCU. By submitting this evaluation, the applicant waives all access to the...
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...Academic Honesty The opportunity or the accessibility for students to cheat is greater now than previous years. In the article, “Honor Principle differs from peers,’ ” by Lindsay Ellis and Kira Watkin of Dartmouth University, it is stated that Dartmouth, Princeton University and University of Pennsylvania base their honor code on trust. This leaves for an open interpretation of the honor principle by students, and works off the idea that students are able to distinguish for themselves what is inappropriate and appropriate behavior. Although it is rather generous to have an honor principle that is so vague, it can also be a bad thing to have. Some students may not want to collaborate or share tips about the work because they’re afraid it would be in violation of the principle. I think that certain guidelines should be established for very research heavy assignments, such as labs and papers, in each class, like Biology Professor Smith at Dartmouth does with her students. This was a policy I have followed through my high school and first years in college. Each student collaborates with obtaining the data, but it’s the interpretation of it that varies. There was an incident at Harvard University that was discussed in class about the 125 graduate seniors who were made to take a leave of absence or withdraw for collaborating on a take home test. An investigation is being conducted for these students and it was brought up in class about whether or not it was fair to rescind all...
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...Adolescent & Adult Literacy, 56(1), 35-44. The article written by Evering & Moorman, 2012, is an article about the complexity and issues that evolve around plagiarism. Plagiarism as we see it today is clearly an issue of concern as far as why people do it and what can be done to avoid it. Plagiarism is not just an issue but clearly a serious and ongoing problem in the world today that needs to be put under control. According to Evering & Moorman, 2012, “Most public and private schools, colleges, and universities have academic integrity or honor codes and consequences for plagiarism, but few professors and teachers explicitly address what plagiarism means or provide examples of individual contexts and degrees of unauthorized copying”. Plagiarism is considered a serious issue that needs to be re-exam as far as Evering & Moorman are concern because it is said that not many students understand what plagiarism is let along trying to prevent it. Although several schools have honor codes about plagiarism and the penalties you can get, it’s still not a discussion with students about what it is and how to avoid it. The article states that “students are seldom engaged in instruction or discussion about what plagiarism is, why it is a problem, and how it can be avoided” (Evering & Moorman, 2012). Plagiarism continue to be an issue because it is not universally recognized, therefore not everyone see plagiarism as plagiarism. Furthermore, plagiarism is based on property...
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...________ Third Year ________ Fourth Year II. Consequences of having a boyfriend/ girlfriend while studying Directions: Read each item carefully and ascertain your views on how having a relationship with the opposite sex affect one’s studies. Put a check mark on the appropriate column opposite the items in the questionnaire using the following code: 5- Strongly Agree 3- Agree 1- Disagree 4- Moderately Agree 2- Slightly Agree Consequences of being commited 5 4 3 2 1 1.Having high grades 2.Having failing grades 3. Joining school affairs 4.Active participation in classes 5. Being friendly 6. Ability to socialize with others 7. Being distracted in Studies 8.Being Inspired 9.Being Matured 10.Ability to distinguish what’s wrong and right III. Effects of having a relationship with the opposite sex to one’s studies Directions: Read each item carefully and ascertain your views on how having a relationship with the opposite sex affect one’s studies. Put a check mark on the appropriate column opposite the items in the questionnaire using the following code: 5- Strongly Agree 3- Agree 1- Disagree 4- Moderately Agree 2- Slightly Agree Implications to One’s Studies 5 4 3 2 1 1.I become affected emotionally and mentally (absent-minded). 2.I socialize with others more...
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...I have decided to write about the Joseph Biden plagiarism scandal that came to light during his first presidential run in 1988. This particular case peaks my interest because the allegations are true as they have been confirmed by Joseph Biden himself yet he seems to fail to see his actions as plagiarism. Mr. Biden is accused of copying five pages of material for a 15 page paper assignment when attending Syracuse University College of Law. While Mr. Biden did include one footnote to attribute credit to the original work, his efforts are grossly inadequate for a student in his first year of law school. The definition of this offense is, “Plagiarism is the intentional failure to give sufficient attribution to the words, ideas, or data of others that the student has incorporated into his/her work for the purpose of misleading the reader” and then goes on to say, “Students who have any doubt as to whether they have provided sufficient attribution have the responsibility to obtain guidance from their professor or other person to whom they are submitting their work” as defined by Liberty University [ (Online, 2015) ]. “Mr. Biden maintains today, as he did 22 years ago, that he had misunderstood the rules of citation and footnoting” and that he “did not intentionally move to mislead anybody” (Dionne, 1987). It is my opinion that even though Mr. Biden claims he was not ‘malevolent’ in his actions he still had a reasonability to consult with his professor if he is unclear or confused...
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