Academic Misconduct: Types
Academic misconduct, academic dishonesty or academic fraud describes an act made by any member of an academic community that goes against the expected norms of that community.
Academic misconduct is used against academic honesty which is a kind of code of conduct to be followed by members of the academic community and is a necessary foundation for all academic institutions.
Since 1865, WPI has issued some guidelines for all students, faculty, and staff to avoid fraud and dishonesty in the academic field to obtain the best internships, jobs and graduate school opportunities.
Examples of academic misconduct include, but are not limited to, the following:
Bribery means offering something (such as money) to a person in return for some favour which is bad in some way. Bribing in academic context describes an act of offering or accepting money or goods for academic advantage, for example in return for a passing grade, assignment answers, or test replies.
Cheating
Cheating means fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an academic context and is unauthorized use of any assignment, materials, information, or study aids for personal advantages. It includes copying the academic work of other students, using hidden cheat sheets, and communication during and collaboration on an exam with no official permission or approval.
Fabrication
Fabrication is falsification, unauthorized creation, and alteration of data, information, or citations in an academic context. Some students fake the results of any information collection instruments, e.g. an experiment, research or questionnaire, and try to fabricate and make up something that is not true, factual, or real.
Plagiarism
COPE defines plagiarism as “a fraud that happens when somebody steals and presents the work of others (language, thoughts, ideas, expressions, data, words or theories) as if they were his/her own.”
Please check here for more details on plagiarism.
Facilitation
In some cases, a member of an academic community helps or attempts to help another member to commit an act of academic dishonesty. For example, sharing unauthorized information about an exam or homework with another member or doing another member’s assignments.
Duplicate Submission
When a member of an academic community, e.g. a student, submits the same paper or assignment for two different classes, he/she commits duplicate submission.
Sabotage
When a student or a professor acts in a way to destroy and ruin the academic work of others and prevent them from completing their work, for example cutting pages out of books in a library or disrupting the experiments of others, by purpose.
Please stay tuned for more information later on academic dishonesty; In the next blog posts, we will publish other aspects of it, as well.
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