Academic Integrity

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Academic Integrity
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GoalTo appropriately and effectively recognize
and address academic integrity issues you may
face as a Teaching Assistant in the classroom.
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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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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
  ones 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.

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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 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