guarding your academic integrity

8/9/2019 Guarding Your Academic Integrity

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Guarding Your AcademicIntegrity

Presented byDr Natalie Persadie

Assistant Professor

Design and Manufacturing EngineeringMonday 26 January 2015


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At UTT, you will be expected to completeassignments and conduct research;therefore, you need to be clear about it!

If you are found in breach of the rules ofacademic integrity, you may be placed on

disciplinary probation, suspended or evenexpelled.


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What is Academic Integrity? a commitment, even in the face of

adversity, to five fundamental values:honesty, trust, fairness, respect, andresponsibility (The Center for Academic

Integrity, 1999, p. 4; emphasis added).


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What is Academic Dishonesty?

The principles of truth and academic

honesty are the basis of the search forknowledge. The University can bestfunction and accomplish its objectives inan atmosphere of high ethical standards.Students must honour these principles and

uphold these standards. Extract from UTTs General Academic Regulations, Policies and Procedures for All Academic Programmes, Section 9.1.


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Infraction of the principles of academic

honesty or cheating includes any conductthat a reasonable personin the same orsimilar circumstances would considerdishonest or improper in an academicsetting.

Academic Dishonesty includes:


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Plagiarism where a student incorporates another persons or

bodys work by unacknowledged quotation,paraphrase, imitation or other device in any worksubmitted for assessment in a way that suggeststhat it is the students original work;

Collusion where two or more students (or a student andanother person) collaborate without officialapproval in the presentation of work which is

submitted as the work of a single student; orwhere a student or students allow their work to beincorporated in, or represented as, the work ofanother student;


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Falsification where the content of any assessed work

has been invented or falsely presented

by the student as their own work; oraltering or changing documents tobenefit the student;

Replication where a student submits the same or

similar piece of work on more than oneoccasion for assessment to gainacademic credit;


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Cheating: Taking unauthorised notes or devices into anexamination;

Obtaining an unauthorised copy of an examination

paper;

Communicating, or trying to communicate, withanother student during an examination; or trying to

convey information to any other student during anexamination;

Being a party to impersonation in relation to anexamination;

Any other act or acts that compromise theintegrity of the academic evaluation process.


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Retrieved 01 September 2010, from http://blogarithmicnotations.blogspot.com/2008_06_01_archive.html.


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Retrieved 01 September 2010, from http://www.my10803.com/honesty.html.


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Avoiding Academic Dishonesty

Always keep the principles of Academic

Integrity foremost in your mind as youwork

Cite/reference works used Textual

Personal

Electronic


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When citing, always include Authors name

Year of publication

Title of book, paper, article, webpage

Place (city) of publication Publishing house

Page number(s) If electronic, date retrieved


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When in doubt ask!

Instructor

Librarian

Student services Consult student handbook or General

Regulations

Consult the presentation on Referencing


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UTTs Policy Go to: http://u.tt/index.php

In News, Docs and Multimedia, click onDocument Downloads

Click on Student Handbook Scroll down to pp 36-37.


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Student Handbook It is your responsibility to be familiar with

the Student Handbook. Ignorance is no excuse!


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ReferencesExperiment Resources. (2008). Ethics in Research. Retrieved 01

September 2010, from Experiment Resources:

http://www.experiment-resources.com/ethics-in-research.html

MIT. (2010). Academic Integrity at the Massachusetts Institute ofTechnology: A Handbook for Students. Massachusetts: MIT.Retrieved 31 August 2010, fromhttp://web.mit.edu/academicintegrity/handbook/handbook.pdf.

Princeton. (2008). Academic Integrity at Princeton. Princeton:Princeton University. Retrieved 31 August 2010, fromhttp://www.princeton.edu/pr/pub/integrity/08/.

Resnik, D. (2010). What is Ethics in Research and Why is itImportant? National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.

Retrieved 01 September 2010, fromhttp://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/resources/bioethics/whatis.cfm.


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The Centre for Academic Integrity. (1999). The Fundamental Valuesof Academic Integrity. Clemson: The Centre for AcademicIntegrity.

University of Maryland University College. (2003). AcademicIntegrity and Plagiarism in the Classroom: An Overview.Retrieved 31 August 2010, fromhttp://www.umuc.edu/distance/odell/cip/vail/faculty/AI_overview/ai_overview.pdf

University of Newcastle. (n.d.). Academic Integrity. Retrieved 31August 2010, from

http://www.newcastle.edu.au/service/library/tutorials/infoskills/glossary.html.

University of Trinidad and Tobago. (2008). General AcademicRegulations, Policies and Procedures for All AcademicProgrammes. OMeara: UTT.

University of Trinidad and Tobago. (n.d.). Student Information &Regulations Handbook.OMeara: UTT.

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