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Academic dishonesty is a form of cheating that occurs within an educational setting. It includes plagiarism, data falsification and contract cheating. Plagiarism is claiming another's work as one's own. Data falsification includes making false claims about research performed, including selective reporting of results to exclude inconvenient data to generating bogus data. It occurs in kindergarten and college; all too often graduate students and professors commit academic dishonesty. Contract cheating involves students putting assessments out to tender and having original work produced for them in return.
Punishments for academic dishonesty vary according to the age of the party involved and the nature of the infraction. In high school, a standard penalty for cheating is a failing grade, in college it can result in expulsion. In rare instances, college professors have been fired when it was discovered that they plagiarized during college or graduate school.
All parties involved in the dishonesty—not just the individual whose grade is increased by it—can be punished. In a 2002 plagiarism scandal at the University of Virginia, 45 students were expelled and three graduates' degrees were revoked.
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wondering if academic backstabbing and dishonesty is unavoidable in high stakes, competetive research. I'd like to think it is not.
anoush (Anoush Margaryan) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:53:27 -0000
wondering if academic backstabbing and dishonesty is unavoidable in high stakes, competetive research. I'd like to think it is not.
RT @beautynubian I can't wait until I become a professor so I can plagiarize my students. Academic dishonesty #ftw
CDashMoney (Clarissa) Mon, 14 Dec 2009 03:36:17 -0000
RT @beautynubian I can't wait until I become a professor so I can plagiarize my students. Academic dishonesty #ftw
RT @tayv8trix: @dooce http://twitpic.com/t9ix3 Saw these signs @BYU campus today, it made me think of you. Academic dishonesty, integrit ...
cuteculturechic (Nicole Bullock) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:28:22 -0000
RT @tayv8trix: @dooce http://twitpic.com/t9ix3 Saw these signs @BYU campus today, it made me think of you. Academic dishonesty, integrit ...
@dooce http://twitpic.com/t9ix3 Saw these signs @BYU campus today, it made me think of you. Academic dishonesty, integrity, marital discord
tayv8trix (tayv8trix) Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:24:43 -0000
@dooce http://twitpic.com/t9ix3 Saw these signs @BYU campus today, it made me think of you. Academic dishonesty, integrity, marital discord
@AvenSarah ...and figure the dealing-with-Academic-Dishonesty headache was probably not worth it at this time of year.
crazyfillyjonk (Erica Corbett) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 23:42:53 -0000
@AvenSarah ...and figure the dealing-with-Academic-Dishonesty headache was probably not worth it at this time of year.
@crazyfillyjonk I'm now deciding how much energy I have to give to this: just a 0 on the essay? the course? or actual Academic Dishonesty?
AvenSarah (Aven McMaster) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:16:07 -0000
@crazyfillyjonk I'm now deciding how much energy I have to give to this: just a 0 on the essay? the course? or actual Academic Dishonesty?
Fraud - Material to help if you have been accused of or if you suspect someone else of committing an academic offense; and material help understand academic offenses better in order to inadvertently avoid committing them.
Open Book Exams - Open-book exams compared/contrasted with open-internet exams and issues related to cheating via computer. Article by Evan Golub, Department of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction Lab, University of Maryland.
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World Report - Exclusive Poll: Cheaters Win - Most students think that cheaters will not suffer any negative consequences for their actions. Also covers the results of some other polls about cheating.
ABC News: A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools - Result of a six-month investigation.
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Academic Fraud At The U: U Comes Clean - A series of stories about major fraud related to academics and the men's basketball program at the University of Minnesota during the 1990s.
ACM Ubiquity - In Defense of Cheating - Donald A. Norman argues that cheating is a natural response to much of what the education system thinks is important.
Beating the Cheating - Librarian-designed webquest to teach teachers about the problem of internet-facilitated cheating and plagiarism.
Cheating: An Epidemic - Short article about academic cheating from about.com
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EducationGuardian.co.uk - The exam system that puts temptation in teachers' way - The UK system of national testing for 11-year-olds puts too much trust in individual teachers to police themselves.
EducationGuardian.co.uk - Widespread cheating devalues school tests - Cheating in national tests for 11-year-olds is so widespread that school league tables can no longer be trusted, a Guardian investigation has found.
iamnext.com - Cheating in School and Life: What to Do? - Editorial about how cheating of all types appears to be increasing in the U.S.
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Intellectual Honesty - Describes the many variations on what is plagiarism and admonishes students not to be party to others' plagiarism.
L.A. Times - Scandal in Organic Semiconductor Development - Prominent Physicist Fired for Faking Data Research: Bell Labs says scientist 'recklessly' misrepresented work on microprocessors.
Lucent - Research Review - Results of inquiry into the validity of certain physics research papers from Bell Labs. Independent committee finds one researcher committed scientific misconduct and clears the 19 other authors investigated.
On Intellectual Honesty - While it is clearly expected that each student shall exhibit honesty in taking exams and in representing the authorship of his/her work, there are other dimensions to intellectual honesty that impinge on every aspect of thinking and communicating.
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Plagiarism: A Misplaced Emphasis - An article by Brian Martin published in Journal of Information Ethics, 1994. Argues that concern about plagiarism has been diverted from the most serious and pervasive problems and channelled into excessive concern about less serious problems.
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The Chronicle Online: Honor violations rise at term's end - Duke University reports that the number of academic integrity violations has surged during this past spring semester.
The Claremont Institute: The Fall of an Academic Fraud - Now-former Emory University professor and author manipulated and/or falsified information in order to back assertions made in the book, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture.
The Infinite Mind: Cheating - Summary of and a link to a radio broadcast discussing cheating in schools, in academia, by primates in general, and in relationships.
The Scientist : Fallout from fraud - Fossil algae researcher used plagiarized photographs in his papers for many years before being detected.
TOPICS Online Magazine for ESL - Academic Dishonesty (Cheating) - Tutorial of sorts intended primarily for adult ESL students. Includes vocabulary and idioms, photo essay demonstrating cheating techniques, hypothetical situations, a poll, and real-life stories.
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University of Manitoba - Inappropriate Collaboration - Material to help understand what inappropriate collaboration is in order to inadvertently avoid committing this offence.
University of Manitoba - Test Your Integrity IQ - 11 school-related ethics questions with an answer key.
Wired News: New Toys for Cheating Students - Wireless devices and palm-sized computers provide many possibilities for cheating in testing situations.
Wired News: Students Called on SMS Cheating - Six University of Maryland students have admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their cell phones to receive text messages with the answers. Another six students were implicated in the case.
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