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Academic IntegrityAcademic Integrity

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Goal:To appropriately and effectively recognize and address academic integrity issues you may face as a Teaching Assistant in the classroom.

Objectives:

1. Explain what academic dishonesty is according to the Purdue University Senate.

2. Identify appropriate and effective ways of addressing violations of academic integrity.

3. Identify resources available at Purdue to help you address academic integrity issues.

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Objectives:

1. Explain what academic dishonesty is according to the Purdue University Senate.

2. Identify appropriate and effective ways of addressing violations of academic integrity.

3. Identify resources available at Purdue to help you address academic integrity issues.

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University Senate Statement• The commitment of the acts of cheating, lying,

stealing, and deceit in any of their diverse forms (such as the use of ghost-written papers, the use of substitutes for taking examinations, the use of illegal cribs, plagiarism, and copying during examinations) is dishonest and must not be tolerated.

• Moreover, knowingly to aid and abet, directly or indirectly, other parties in committing dishonest acts is in itself dishonest” (University Senate Document 72-18, December 15, 1972).

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Types of Academic Dishonesty• Cheating: intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized

materials, information, or study aids in any academic exercise.

• Fabrication: intentional and unauthorized falsification or invention of information or citation in an academic exercise.

• Plagiarism: deliberate adoption or reproduction of ideas/words/ statements of another person as one’s own without acknowledgement.

• Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another (to cheat)

• Misrepresentation: providing false information to an instructor concerning an academic exercise. Purdue University also includes forgery as a form of misrepresentation.

• Sabotage: actions that prevent others from completing their work.

Objectives:

1. Explain what academic dishonesty is according to the Purdue University Senate.

2. Identify appropriate and effective ways of addressing violations of academic integrity.

3. Identify resources available at Purdue to help you address academic integrity issues.

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Academic Integrity Scenarios

• How would you respond?

• How would you pre-empt this situation from happening again?

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Objectives:

1. Explain what academic dishonesty is according to the Purdue University Senate.

2. Identify appropriate and effective ways of addressing violations of academic integrity.

3. Identify resources available at Purdue to help you address academic integrity issues.

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Academic Dishonesty Resources

• See page 6 of the handout included in the USB flash drive

• Report to Faculty Supervisor

• Call Office of the Dean of Students

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Before We Conclude

• Take survey form out of packet

• Complete Post-Survey items 18-21 on scantron form

• Turn the scantron form in

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