...Academic Integrity This is my first time to get in touch with this new phrase: Academic integrity. To be honest, Students in Czech Republic including me, seldom acquire knowledge concerning subjects like Academic Integrity; so I have to admit that I only have faint sense of Academic Integrity, which is never cheating in examinations. I think it is partly caused by European education system. When I was a kid, the only understanding of integrity is to be an honest child or do not lie to your parents and teachers. When I grow up, I clearly know that cheating is a really bad thing. Thus I think, to some extent, these two rules are more like moral integrity but academic integrity. More often than not, the average student seeks an immediate answer by going into Google and asking it a question. This passes for “research” today. The trouble with this method is that, once an obstacle is encountered, the average student declares, “I could not find any research on my subject.” Beyond the fact that the research skills are poor, the next issue is the fact that, once the student finds research, he or she does not know what to do with the information. That is, there appears to be no attempt at explaining the significance of the research, or asking substantial questions in response to it. I think integrity is important for writing in academics. Being able to submit a paper or essay with the confidence your work is completely honest is a great feeling. I feel being honest in your writing gives...
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...1. At our school site, cheating and academic integrity violations have become a real problem. Currently, it is unclear what exactly has led to such an epidemic, however, we come together today at this town hall meeting in order to discuss and debate the topic, so that we may further understand and clarify what leads to such violations. Further, I hope that these discussions may lead to realizations as to what must be done in order to prevent further instances of cheating and academic dishonesty. Finally, I would hope that each stakeholder group will better understand one another and gain knowledge of academic integrity, its definitions and regulations. Questions for each of the stakeholder groups: Graduate Schools Group: 1. Would knowledge of a student violating their college’s academic integrity regulations affect their chances of attending a (your) graduate school? 2. If so, is there any action that a student can take in order to change your view of them or your decision concerning their acceptance? Student Group: 1. What do you feel the professors, faculty and university can do to better and further deter students from cheating? 2. What do you, as students, believe would be a fair punishment for academic integrity violations? Parent Group: 1. Parents, do you feel that you were properly informed about the expectations concerning and the consequences surrounding a student violating the academic integrity rules? 2. What do you believe you...
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...Academic integrity within education is considered one of the most important aspects in the review of literature. It refers to the use of knowledge, which needs to reflect transparency, morality as well as honesty (International Centre for Academic Integrity, 1999). As Drinan and Gallant et. al, (2008) mentioned the ‘Rule Compliance Strategy (RCS)’ is one of the most popular strategic ways to stop plagiarism. In RCS, plagiarism is bordered as a ‘criminal’ action and thus, all writers have to apply these rules and acknowledge that the work material belongs to other individuals. Failure to comply with the rules would result implications and actions. According to Hayes and Introna (2005), Western countries with English as a national language and in particular, the United Kingdom has been the first choice for international students who wish to study abroad. Many authors have witnessed that students from abroad and, especially from the East, have a different method of learning and is contradictory with the Western approach. However, the reality is that academic work and values are currently in challenge due to the effect of globalization (Peter, 2003). The rapid growth of technology in a global level has introduced a new way of knowledge, the e-learning. The high-tech, easy, online access to important information has eroded the traditional academic values and the appeal for higher education as well as science has been replaced with technology and its application. Academic integrity...
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...OVERALL SCORE: 90% (18 of 20 Questions Correct) Site Title: Plagiarism Quiz: Avoiding Plagiarism Mastery Test Date/Time Submitted: 4/15/2014, 3:37:09 PM 1. I believe that the importance of academic writing is to help you communicate your ideas more clearly to whoever your audience or primary reader may be. Being able to write academically will more than likely help you succeed professionally by showing your employer you have good written communication skills as well as whatever other qualities you have to offer their company. A lot of companies these days are looking only to hire employees with outstanding communication skills. 2. I believe that integrity is important in writing because in an academic or professional setting you are supposed to show respect for another person’s work and demonstrate your own professionalism by being honest, reliable, trustworthy and fair. I think that a lot of students these days do not believe in academic integrity. Using another person’s work is looked upon as cheating or plagiarism which is called academic dishonesty which can cause you to be penalized, expelled or maybe even terminated in a professional environment. 3. I believe that the best way to avoid plagiarism is to use paraphrasing or use your own common knowledge. The technique I use myself is trying to figure out as much common knowledge I have on whatever the subject may be, then researching the subject to find out things that I did not know...
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...According to the article, “Perception of Academic Integrity Among Nursing Students”, there was a study conducted based on dishonesty in nursing education and as well as nursing profession in the field. The reason this study was conducted is because students were dissatisfied with the dishonesty among their peers. According to the authors Woith, Jenkins, and Kerber, academic dishonesty is growing among nursing students. There are certain factors that contribute to this growing issue which are student factor, faculty factor, and system factor. Student factor is when social anxiety can be a reason as to why a lot of students cheat, hoping they can impress others by any means. In the faculty factor, students are expected, by faculty, to finish...
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...Introduction “Are students’ perceptions of academic integrity the same in the online environment as they are in the classroom?” (Swartz & Cole. Journal of Business and Education Leadership. Pg. 102) With so many more business students taking courses online, instructors and institutions have to trust that the students are being trustworthy. It also needs to be determined as to what constitutes cheating and what is acceptable. After studying online business course students – in regards to academic integrity – it seems that the use of technological advances needs to be evaluated in the online setting as well as the classroom as to whether it is acceptable for use or considered cheating. Summary What is academic integrity? “It is the professional code serving academia, including students, instructors, researchers and the institution itself.” (Swartz & Cole. Journal of Business and Education Leadership. Pg. 104) A study was done at Robert Morris University in Western Pennsylvania to determine what students felt was acceptable in both online learning and the actual classroom, how easy it was to cheat, and what could be done to discourage it more. “As a recent experience at Harvard demonstrates, maintaining academic integrity is a problem in the classroom as well as in the online setting.” (Swartz & Cole. Journal of Business and Education Leadership. Pg. 103) Students from several business courses with differing demographics were surveyed. The goal of the study was to identify...
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...When an individual has copied or even referenced somebody’s work without credit they have just committed the crime of plagiarism. Most believe all students have academic integrity, but there are a select few that just simply do not. It is a disappointment because it can get the student removed from school and jeopardize their entire future over a five-hundred-word essay. It is actually quite easy to plagiarize without even realizing it you can use a catchy slogan in a paper or even write down quotes from brilliant authors. Even the mother taking her kids to school and uses another’s person idea to create a costume is committing plagiarism. Instead of making it hard on yourself just do the work and make the time for the work. When you try hard...
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...Abstract Plagiarism and other forms of cheating have been around since the beginning of formal education. In order to evaluate the factors that influence the behavior and attitudes towards this moral problem, one must recognize the Internet has made plagiarism a rapidly growing issue in today’s academia. Easy access to the Internet and to a world of what seems to be free information tempts students to copy and paste text into papers with a quick click of a mouse. The Internet also provides a means for students to purchase term papers, without researching or writing assignments on their own. Teachers and faculty must constantly evolve and find new ways to fight the growing problem of plagiarism, including the use of electronic tools implemented by educational institutions to control it. Understanding how and why students plagiarize will provide insight to faculty in combating the ever-persistent problem. Cyber-Plagiarism Plagiarism occurs when students claim someone else’s work as their own, or when they do not give proper credit for information obtained from another source. “The terms cyber-plagiarism, and cyber-cheating have become commonplace in recent years when recounting the phenomenon of students misusing resources that they find via ‘the Net,’” Smith, 2003, p. 22 (as cited in Wiebe, 2006-2008, ¶ 2). Today, many students commit cyber-plagiarism by not putting effort into writing their own work. They take the easy road and purchase ready-made papers...
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...Plagiarisms and Academic Integrity Plagiarism is a diverse topic. People find new ways to plagiarize everyday. The term plagiarism "is the use of others" published and unpublished ideas or words (or other intellectual property) without attribution or permission and presenting them as new and original rather than derived from an existing source". (Article: Paragraph 1, sentence 1) Plagiarism is a big issue in education. Sometimes people don’t know they are plagiarizing someone else’s work. Incidents of students engaging in blatant or inadvertent copying of another's words have remained constant for the past 200 years, although the medium with which students plagiarize and the sociocultural expectations for academic integrity have changed (Article: paragraph 5, sentence 2). If you recorded your original thoughts in a book or an article they are protected by copyright laws, which can’t be stolen or used without referencing back to the original. Because plagiarism is such an issue in the academic world, it is in need of reexamination, and be made clearer to students and faculty. This article to me was just a review of my knowledge on plagiarism. I have known about plagiarism while in school and in college. It was very resourceful and gave you a lot of key notes about plagiarism. So if you have some knowledge on plagiarism and need more information on it, this article would be a good pick. My knowledge on plagiarism will help me as an online student to accomplish my...
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...Journal of Sociology and Education in Africa – Vol.4 No.2: June 2006 INSTITUTING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES: PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES OF MORALITY AND MOTIVATION Olabisi Olasehinde-Williams Department of EductgionalFoundations University of Ilorin, Nigeria ABSTRACT This paper explores the issue of academic integrity in Nigerian universities from the psychological perspectives of morality and motivation. The need and procedure for confronting the problem of academic dishonesty via academic integrity policy are advocated; and specific obligations and responsibilities of academic staff, students and administration in evolving academic integrity climate in universities are identified. Collaborative efforts among universities in engendering academic integrity climate; and collaborative research work in related areas are considered important and called for in the paper. INTRODUCTION It is no longer news that academic dishonesty remains one of the major challenges of the Nigerian education system (Olasehinde, 2000; Olasehinde-Williams, Abdullahi & Owolabi, 2003). – Literature is also replete with plausible explanations for the ‘culture’ of academic dishonesty (Olasehinde et al. 2003); and researchers have proposed variety of methods of dealing with the same (Crown & Spiller, 1998; Marzean, 2001). Deriving from such proposals for instance, it is new commonplace in most universities, to take such measures as alternate seating arrangements and identity checks in order...
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...Enabling strategies enact academic integrity policy. Without long-term, sustainable and practical support resources, a policy will not be enacted, no matter how well it is articulated. The cases in this resource cover a range of academic integrity issues in Australian universities with application for a wider audience. These case studies have been developed by the Academic Integrity Standards Project. “…I suspect that every senior manager needs to have some training in the issue of academic integrity principles. I learnt mine on the job, so I think that needs to be worked through so that the policy and the implementation and the people who have that power understand those principles …So I think the case study models really useful. How would you deal with someone who had this story; you know, what would you do, and then work out what you'd do pragmatically versus where the policy fits from there.” (Senior Manager, University B, Academic Integrity Standards Project) Although they may be based on real life stories, they have been adapted and anonymised for the purposes of this project resource; pseudonyms are used in every instance. The case studies are designed to be used as triggers for discussion in group seminars and primarily target teaching staff, although they could be used for discussion with students or other academic integrity stakeholders. Support for this project/activity has been provided by the Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching...
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...Academic Integrity in a cultural context What is Academic Integrity in a cultural context? According to the Oxford School Dictionary & Thesaurus Academic means something to do with education or studying, especially at a school or college or university. Integrity means telling something that is true. Cultural means the custom and traditions of a people. Context means the background to an event that helps to explain it. So we can deduce from these definitions that academic integrity in a cultural context refers to academic honesty as against the background of the customs and tradition of people in an academic world. Academic Integrity in Nigeria With three major ethnic group and over 150 sub ethnic group, I daresay Nigeria is a very rich country in terms of culture and diverse in terms of customs and traditions. From time immemorial information has been passed down from generations to generations orally. Words and proverbs were actually not attributed to a singular person but to an ethnic group, for instance, the Yoruba adage, the Igbo adage, the Hausa adage, the Bini adage and so on. As we advance over the years, we started attributing word or group of words as quotes to an individual and also books were written by individuals. It was in the bid to stop mass reproduction of books that copyright came into been. During my research on this topic, I found out that most of the research works and journals on academic integrity in Nigeria only focus on cheating, malpractice...
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...Academic Integrity Academic integrity refers to the process and concept of learning and advancing ones education. This means a student sets goals to do well in school and in higher education. Academic integrity essentially means "intellectual honesty": honesty in the use of formulating arguments, and information and in other activities related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It is the core principle that establishes how we live and learn in a community of inquiry. As members and students of an academic community, we are entitled to a wide extent of freedom in the pursuit of scholarly interests. With that freedom, however, comes the responsibility to uphold high ethical standards of academic conduct. At the beginning of each school year, each student has standards that they hope to achieve over the course of a semester; whether it’s getting an A or participating more in class, every student has the chance to achieve. Having academic integrity shows willingness to put the time into the work and do the best possible. Richard Fuller once said, “Integrity is the essence of everything successful” (Fuller). And I could not agree more, because to gain success, one must earn it. It’s really how much we learn or understand from our professors that are most important. Our professor’s act as mentors and we should take advantage of what they have to offer, knowledge is the greatest gift of all. Though struggle as we may at times in learning new things, we must not give up...
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...Student Code of Conduct of University of Phoenix supports the University's mission to provide access to higher education opportunities that enable students to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to achieve their professional goals, improve the productivity of their organizations, and provide leadership and service to their communities. Students are expected to conduct themselves ethically, honestly, and with integrity as responsible members of the University's academic community. This requires the demonstration of mutual respect and civility in academic and professional discourse. A University is a marketplace of ideas and, in the search for truth, it is essential that freedom exists for contrary ideas to be expressed. Accordingly, students are expected to respect the rights and privileges of others and to foster an environment conducive to learning. Students are accountable for their actions and are required to work independently, as well as collaboratively with teams, in achieving learning goals and objectives. By virtue of membership in the University's academic community, students accept an obligation to abide by this Student Code of Conduct. Conduct, either on or off-campus, that is determined to impair, interfere, or obstruct the opportunities of others to learn or that disrupts the mission, processes, or orderly functions of the...
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...The purpose of this paper is to address the issues surrounding academic integrity and ethical procedures as they relate to students, scholarly research and practice. We will take a look at the viewpoints of two articles that tackle this issue. When I think about the word “ethics”, morals and doing the right thing come to mind. In life there is a constant struggle between making good and bad choices, especially if the choice you choose can make or break your career. In the first article, Aaron and Roche, (2013) highlight several levels of academic dishonesty being displayed and the repercussions that followed as a result. Together Aaron and Roche, try to identify where academic dishonesty can begin and how society plays a major role in its flourish. From an early age, we are taught to be competitive and to always strive to be the best at what we do, at least that’s what most parents expect from their children. There is an enormous amount of pressure placed on children in the elementary and high school grades to achieve high scores on standardized test. Unfortunately, this type of pressure if continued can lead to cheating on the collegiate level (Schellenbarger, 2013). Academic dishonesty or “cheating”, has become a common standard amongst specialized high schoolers and prep school students. In one scenario, involving a specialized school in New York, high school students devised an organized plan to cheat on a Regents exam. Of course the students involved were caught and...
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