...written to prevent incidence of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, and violations to the code of conduct. In spite of the policies and procedures for student conduct, academic honesty, and plagiarism violations to the code of conduct occur frequently. However, to have academic honesty, academic dishonesty must be avoided. What is considered academic dishonesty? What causes students to commit acts of academic dishonesty? What preventative measures can be implemented to decrease the incidents of academic dishonesty, plagiarism, and violations of the code of conduct? And lastly who is ultimately affected by violating, regulations, rules, and policies related to academic dishonesty. This paper will focus on the cause and effect of academic dishonesty. Current studies have shown that there is a significant rise in the occurrence of academic dishonesty, such as plagiarism and test taking infarctions. According to Deddes, (2011) 85% of students admitted to episodes of academic dishonesty by text messaging containing answers to questions sent to another student during test taking and committing acts of plagiarism by submitting papers written by others and claiming the work as their own. According to Sikes, (2008) a survey conducted in the UK of 93 educational institution uncovered 9229 plagiarism cases within a year. With the emergence and increased use of the internet students easily retrieve data and use as their own this leads to academic dishonesty which is on the rise not only in the...
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...Academic Dishonesty Submitted by: Dominique Jamison Arreone Hill Submitted to: Dr. Samuel Perkins Class/ Time: Business Ethics 10:00-10:50 INTRODUCTION Demanded by Jackson State University, it is extremely important that all of its faculty and students conform to the standards and abide by the rules that are stated in the university's code of conduct. Each individual that is affiliated with Jackson State University is expected to take responsibility and not engage in any type of academic dishonesty. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM Academic Dishonesty represents a lack of academic integrity. This unethical issue is quite common amongst college students at Jackson State University who attempt to obtain credit for work by any dishonest and deceptive means. PURPOSE FOR THE PLAN The purpose is to reduce the amount of academic dishonesty and to increase academic integrity. MAJOR BENEFITS Academic honesty provides the following student opportunities: * Learn the skills and knowledge they will need to be successful in their chosen career. * Create trust between peers and professors. * Provide the satisfaction of knowing ethical principles have been followed. * Earn the right to take full credit for work accomplished. * Form the habit of self-reliance. ...
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...To justify academic dishonesty on the basis that the student in question was not aware of the exact rules is not an easy task. But, look at it this way: If the whole world was to get away with committing irresponsible crimes simply because they were ‘unaware’, where would we be then? There are many other reasons apart from being unaware, as to how people get involved into academic dishonesty. But, I for one don’t believe there are any excuses for students that act dishonestly, even if they are foreign. There are many incidences recorded where international students have a higher percentage of participating in academically dishonest acts than domestic students, whether they do it intentionally or not. A study cited by Simpson in her article “Academic Dishonesty: An International Student Perspective”, showed that the mere 10% of the entire student population was international and was found to account for 47% of all academic dishonesty...
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...My name is Ariel Miller. I am a student at National American University. It is my unfortunate, yet appreciative, responsibility to submit this paper on Academic Dishonesty. The purpose of this paper resulted from utter irresponsibility on my part. In an effort to meet a required deadline, along with a lack of proper time management, I submitted an assignment that contained plagiarism. I must admit that this was never my intentions and the first time I have been faced with such a situation. However, in an effort to take total responsibility, I recognize that my waiting until the last minute to complete an assignment is the root cause of this situation. In the past decade, professors across the country have noticed an alarming new trend—academic dishonesty is on the rise. More than half of college students surveyed admit to at least one instance of serious cheating in the past year (McCabe and Pavela). Information is incredibly easy to access on the Internet, and devices such as iPhones put that power, literally, into the palms of students’ hands. Many students entering universities today face extraordinary amounts of pressure for results academically, leading them to believe that cheating is necessary to succeed. This mentality is further cemented by examples in mass media, from professional athletes to CEOs cheating in order to get ahead. To battle this trend, colleges across the country have implemented honor codes. These codes vary widely depending on the institution; some merely...
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...Journal Analysis: "Ethical Dilemmas on Academic Dishonesty" Part I Academic dishonesty is a big part of higher education and all institutions make sure students know the seriousness of not cheating. Being honest in your academic endeavors has to begin in elementary school and through high school and beyond. At an early age, students become aware how important education is to their lives. The internet opens up a whole new chapter of keeping academia in an honest state. There is information on any subject available on the internet. Keeping academic dishonesty at bay takes conscious effort and awareness. The purpose of the study was to highlight a concern of educational institutions that has an impact on their funding as well at the integrity of the systems they have in place. Educators need insight on how and why cheating is done. This study gives understanding of academic dishonesty to allow educators to have a tool to allow planning to help combat the problem. There are inside and outside factors that influence cheating and this study was done to help educators to be more informed. One study methodology that was used was systematic random sampling. The methods of analysis that were used were quantitative and qualitative methods. Systematic random sampling allows for an equal chance at selecting subjects and not overusing the pool of subjects. The students were taken from all levels of academia and grade average. There were also open-ended...
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...“predictions” can be confusing, since we interpret it as telling about something that will happen, like "with in two years, 99% of the college student will be engage in academic dishonesty. In other words, a test (observations or experiments) must take place. Therefore, saying that a hypothesis generates predictions is similar to saying hypothesis is testable. In reference to the article “ACADEMIC DISHONESTY: PERCEPTION OF BUSINESS STUDENTS”, cheating among business students appears to be a major concern for professors and the colleges and Universities. This observation will prove that students with business major are more likely to engage in cheating on their examinations compared with students in other major fields. The author surveyed 5,000 students on 99 college campuses and reported that at least half of those in his sample practiced academic dishonesty (Bowers, 1964). Another survey was done in a 1993 by the same author across the same campuses and the result was higher than the previous survey, 52% of the students were reported cheating. It shows that 87%, who responded to the survey were business students. Regardless of gender, the studies states that majority of the business students possess lower values than students in different fields (Harries, 1989). The survey report states, the commonness of dishonesty on campuses rise to 84% from 24% of the...
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...Academic dishonesty Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Academic dishonesty refers deliberate attempt to falsify, fabricate or interfere with information, data, records or any other material relevant to student’s participation to any academic exercise or function. It broadly includes cheating, copying, reusing papers and reports, unauthorized assistance from other writers and plagiarism. This describes one trying to find an easier way to complete assignments. The pervasiveness of academic dishonesty has increased and as up to 80-90% of students admit having cheated prior to graduation from high school (Dupre, Mackey & Smith, 2005). This is because, the pressure for high test scores is so extreme, and students feel the need to be at the same level of academic excellence with their peers and also maintain the national emphasis on excellent performance in the classroom. Plagiarism is one form of academic dishonesty. Plagiarism can be described as the act of using the creative works of another as your own work, without appropriate acknowledgment of the author or source. It encompasses the deliberate use of words, phrase, sentences, arguments, and ideas of other authors without proper citing and acknowledgement. Plagiarism ranges from copying another person’s work word for word to rewriting else’s work with only minor word changes. This is highly punishable in academic writing (University of Iowa, n.d.). In order to avoid it, one should clearly indicate the source...
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...to prevent it. This will also outline what is included in plagiarism and general dishonesty, possible reasons why there may be a downfall in this area and ways to protect the student from falling into the plagiarism trap. Ways for students and faculty to foster academic integrity will also be discussed. Academic honesty is important in academics at any level. There are two main reasons for keeping academic integrity intact and they are to stop students from misrepresenting others works as their own and to cite original works giving the source the proper credit. It is important for students to understand the impact that dishonesty has on the educational process. It is also an integrity issue that encompasses the faculty and students as a whole. Academic honesty is the responsibility of all students and faculty. There are so many ways that students can be morally and lawfully dishonest in a college setting, but the student then needs to understand what exactly academic dishonesty is and in what ways they violate the code of conduct put forth by all universities. Academic honesty includes staying away from these dishonest acts: cheating plagiarism (Plagiarism is to present someone else’s work, ideas, creativity sayings as your own ) copying or copy and pasting from the Internet altering authorized academic records helping other students to perform an act of academic dishonesty also known as collusion. The most effective and widely used way of cheating is...
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...is and how to prevent it. This will also outline what is included in plagiarism and general dishonesty, possible reasons why there may be a downfall in this area and ways to protect the student from falling into the plagiarism trap. Ways for students and faculty to foster academic integrity will also be discussed. Academic honesty is important in academics at any level. There are two main reasons for keeping academic integrity intact and they are to stop students from misrepresenting others works as their own and to cite original works giving the source the proper credit. It is important for students to understand the impact that dishonesty has on the educational process. It is also an integrity issue that encompasses the faculty and students as a whole. Academic honesty is the responsibility of all students and faculty. There are so many ways that students can be morally and lawfully dishonest in a college setting, but the student then needs to understand what exactly academic dishonesty is and in what ways they violate the code of conduct put forth by all universities. Academic honesty includes staying away from these dishonest acts: cheating plagiarism (Plagiarism is to present someone else’s work, ideas, creativity sayings as your own ) copying or copy and pasting from the Internet altering authorized academic records helping other students to perform an act of academic dishonesty also known as collusion. The most effective and widely used way of cheating is through the Internet...
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...“ANESTHESIA”. It aims to “inject” or to put into the mind and in the heart of the students the value and importance of honesty during elections in order to reduce “pain” or to reduce the dishonesties and lies to happen during election. Elections have been practiced a long time ago; it’s one way for people to exercise their suffrage to vote to appoint their desired leaders. Philippines as a democratic country used election to appoint officials like senators and president. But with every election, news about vote buying, malicious tampering of votes, fraud and other dishonest acts increases. These kinds of acts are a start of an impending problem called corruption. To prevent corruption to take place, we need to take action first on our elections and make it clean and honest. Our team has come up to a campaign called “HONESTHESIA: Be the Cure” which aims to increase honest individuals and young voters to stop dishonest acts during school and nationwide elections. Our goal is to: 1. To provide awareness about honesty to students within 6 months 2. To teach the true value and importance of honesty during elections within 6 months 3. To increase by 10% the students who will value and practice honesty during elections every year after the campaign is implemented 4. To decrease dishonesty and corruption by 10% every year after the campaign is implemented The major target audiences of the IMC Campaign are high school and college students both public and private, mostly at...
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...colleagues. Professional also known as those who working in acknowledged professions, exercise specialist knowledge and skill. Professional ethics encompass the personal, organizational and corporate standards of behavior expected of professionals. Looking towards a human resources employee’s responsibility, a HR employee are responsible for adding value to the organization he or she serve and contributing to the ethical success of those organizations. He or she also an advocate for the HR profession by engaging in activities that enhance its credibility and value. Individually, he or she is expected to exhibit individual leadership as a role model for maintaining the highest standards of ethical conduct where he or she should be ethical and act ethically in every professional interaction, seek expert guidance if ever in doubt about the ethical propriety of a situation and question pending individual and group actions when necessary to ensure that decisions are ethical and are implemented in an ethical manner. Professional codes of ethics prescribes how professionals are to pursue their common ideal so that each may do the best they can at a minimal cost to themselves and those they care about. The code is to protect each professional from certain pressures by making it reasonable likely that most other members of the profession will not take advantage of their good conduct. For example of pressure faced by them is the pressure to cut corners in order to save money. A code is a...
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...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 to reduce cases of examination dishonesty. It should however be worrisome, particularly to educationists that despite such regulations and recommendations, designed to deter it; academic dishonesty remains endemic on many campuses (Crown & Spiller, 1998; Olasehinde et. Al, 2003). To what then, can the apparently low success rate of the deterrent...
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...Summer 2015 BIO 101-103 COURSE SYLLABUS BIOL. 101-103 (4 credits), meets MTWRF for lectures in Spencer Hall G7 from 10:00-11:30 am and Lab meets on TWR in Spencer Hall room G7 from 12:30-3:00 pm. Instructor: Dr. Simon Nyaga Office: Dixon 213 Phone: 443-885-3636 Email: Simon.Nyaga@morgan.edu Office Hours: MF 12:30-1:30 PM or by appointment Course Description: Introductory biology is a gateway course worth 4 credits specifically designed for non-biology majors. This is course covers major topics in biology shown below. The following general biology topics are thoroughly explored and discussed: the scientific method of solving problems, chemistry of cellular macromolecules, cellular structure and function, energy flow in cells with emphasis on respiration and photosynthesis, biotechnology and its application (emphasis on structure and function of nucleic acids), chromosomes and cell division and finally winds up a study of the basis of heredity (Genetics). In addition, evolution and its role in the creation of diversity are also thoroughly discussed. Textbook and Course Materials: What Is Life: A Guide to Biology, 2nd edition (with Prep U) by Jay Phelan published by; W. H. Freeman and Company, New York. Information on how to access Bioportal is to be found on the separate card which comes with the textbook. A used book will not enable you to access Bioportal and therefore no access to Prep-U and learning Curve quizzes. These quizzes have been shown to improve...
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...------------------------------------------------- Top of Form My Courses --> HNC 310 --> EXAM SCHEDULE and GRADING print contact faculty contact tech | Pathology - Module 1: Introduction to the course - Unit 1: Course Requirements - Item Number: 1 Lecture | Title: | EXAM SCHEDULE and GRADING | Fall 2013 EXAM SCHEDULE Dates | | Percent of Grade | August 25, 2014 | Course begins | | September 18, 2014 | Exam 1 | 25% | October 16, 2014 | Exam 2 | 25% | November 13, 2014 | Exam 3 | 25% | December 11, 2014 | Exam 4 | 25% | A final average grade of C+ or better (a numerical grade of 74 or higher) is required to pass this course. ------------------------------------------------- Top of Form My Courses --> HNC 310 --> CELL PATHOLOGY print contact faculty contact tech | Pathology - Module 2: Module Two - Unit Number: 1 Unit Title: CELL PATHOLOGY Unit Objectives After reading this chapter, viewing the PowerPoint presentation and the accompanying lecture notes, and completing the study activities, the student will be able to: 1. Describe the normal structure and function of the cell. 2. Discuss the adaptive structural and functional changes that occur in cells as a result of changes in homeostasis. 3. Explain the adaptive structural and functional changes associated with atrophy, hypertrophy, hyperplasia...
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...The Collin College “Academic Dishonesty Statement,” is similar to Notre Dames “Honor Code” in that they give helpful examples of what is considered plagiarism. In the Academic Dishonesty Statement, the acts of plagiarism, cheating and collusion are the schools main focus and examples. The school does mention some penalties, but their main focus is on the examples of plagiarism then the act itself. The phrase,“Collin College community is expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity,” gives a vague explanation of what the college expects from the faculty and students who are at Collin, but nothing else.The tone of Collin’s statement may be lukewarm and pluck at the morality strings of the student, but it still doesn’t make a student or faculty member contemplate plagiarizing or fear Collin College’s “disciplinary penalties”(Collin College Academic Dishonesty Statement)....
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