ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY A closer look at Kealing’s Academic integrity policy

What we will learn… • Kealing Academic Integrity Policy • What to do in various situations. • The consequences for scholastic dishonesty. http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navclass/

AGENDA • Today we will… • Take a academic integrity quiz • Examine the Kealing Academic Integrity policy • Review our quiz responses • Discuss the consequences for scholastic dishonesty • Complete pennants. • Tuesday we will…. • Make integrit-e cards highlighting our academic integrity policy. • Complete pennants!

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY QUIZ • You are about to take an academic integrity self-quiz to measure your level of academic honesty. • Each question gives you a situation and a series of options as to what you might do. Choose what you, yourself, would do. • Don’t choose what you think the teacher wants you to do because questions may have more than one right or wrong answer. • After you take the quiz, you will score your answers. • So…get out a sheet of paper, number it 1-10, and write down the letter that best answers the question.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY QUIZ Get out a sheet of paper, number it 1-10, and write down the best answer to the question….

1. YOU HAVE BEEN DOING RESEARCH FOR YOUR SOCIAL STUDIES RESEARCH PROJECT. YOUR TEACHER REQUIRES THOROUGH RESEARCH AND IS ASKING THAT STUDENTS USE A MINIMUM OF FIVE SOURCES. YOU HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FIND A FIFTH SOURCE, AND YOU DON’T WANT TO RISK LOSING POINTS ON YOUR PROJECT. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? • Ask your teacher and/or a librarian for assistance in locating additional research sources. • Take the lower grade. • Include a random web site on the works cited page, regardless of whether or not you have cited information from it. • Include a web site on the works cited page, citing information you could have obtained from other works cited you already have.

2. YOU HAVE A READING RESPONSE TO OF MICE AND MEN DUE IN ENGLISH. AFTER STAYING UP UNTIL MIDNIGHT FINISHING THE READING, YOU DIDN’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO COMPLETE THE WRITTEN PORTION. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING SOLUTIONS IS ACCEPTABLE? • Borrow a friend’s journal and copy his response. After all, you did do the reading. • Before class, write a response with extremely descriptive language to make up for simple ideas. • Take a zero, and complete the entry the next day for a late grade. • Read your friend’s response and paraphrase their words.

3. IN MATH, WHAT DOES COLLABORATION LOOK LIKE? • Giving someone a solution strategy. • Verifying the answers with someone. • Dividing the work equally. • Coming up with a solution together.

4. YOU DID NOT DO WELL ON YOUR MATH HOMEWORK. WHAT SHOULD YOU DO? • If your process is correct, then give yourself full credit. • Take notes with your grading pen when a solution is shown. • Not turn it in now, and redo it for late credit. • Turn it in now, and redo it for late credit.

5. YOU ARE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH 3 OTHER STUDENTS ON A SCIENCE LAB AND EACH MEMBER HAS AN ASSIGNED LAB ROLE DURING THE LAB. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING BEST DESCRIBES YOU AND YOUR GROUP? • The student who knows the most about the subject should contribute the most to your group. • There is equal input from all members to maximize learning for all, even if it means some of the input may be inaccurate. • Each member of the group contributes to the lab only as described by their assigned lab role. • You fear that your group members’ answers will affect your overall lab grade, so you do the lab yourself to assure you get a good grade.

6. YOUR FRIEND IS TAKING THE SCIENCE TEST ON B DAY THAT YOU ALREADY TOOK ON A DAY. WHAT DO YOU DO? • You tell them to study hard and good luck. • You give your friend samples of questions, changing the content yourself to disguise what the test will actually look like. • You post on your Facebook wall your impressions of the test and what to study for. • You help your friend study without giving them specific information about the test.

7. YOU HAVE BEEN ASSIGNED A SOCIAL STUDIES PROJECT THAT REQUIRES YOU TO WORK MOSTLY AT HOME. WHICH BEST DESCRIBES YOUR SITUATION? • You take input from friends, teachers and parents and then take full responsibility for all aspects of the project. • As long as you build it yourself, it’s okay for your parents to outline/design the project. • Your mom and dad are excited, and you accept their help with building the project as long as you do the research. • You look at similar projects from previous years of other classes and use their good ideas.

8. YOUR PARENT/FRIEND/SIBLING SPEAKS THE FOREIGN LANGUAGE YOU ARE STUDYING SO YOU: • Ask for assistance with phrasing ideas in that language. • Do your own writing, but allow them to make corrections for you. • Ask them to mark your errors, and then you make the corrections. • Do your own work, rarely asking for help.

9. You are working in a collaborative group for a Social Studies project. Collaboration means… • your group members equally divide the workload and then copy each other’s responses. • your group members divide the work, even though it might not be equal, and share each other’s responses via google documents. • your group members equally divide the work load and then discuss your individual research to compile a final group document. • If you are in doubt of your own answers, use the ideas of the smartest person in the group.

10. YOU ARE WORKING ON A CREATIVE PRESENTATION IN ENGLISH CLASS THAT REQUIRES YOU TO WRITE A POEM. YOU DECIDE TO • Refine a poem that you have written from a previous English class. • Rewrite a poem that someone else wrote by replacing a few individual words and phrases with ones you find more aesthetically pleasing. • Use phrases from a published poet’s work and cite your sources. • Write a new poem for the assignment, risking a bad grade if the poem is not very good.

Academic Integrity is taking responsibility for one’s own learning. • It demands that you: • Be honest. • Ask questions. • Use time productively and do your best to complete assignments on time. • Prepare for projects, quizzes and tests. • Know the difference between collaboration and cheating. • Give credit when credit is due. • Create original work.

How do you avoid Scholastic Dishonesty? • Stay on top of your deadlines. • If you are unsure about the assignment, ask your teacher. • Never, ever copy someone’s work. • Do not share information about quizzes and tests. • Reflect on your work. • “Did you do the thinking required?” • “Can you explain the ideas in your own words?” • If you answer ‘no’ to the above questions, then you need to redo the work.

CONSEQUENCES FOR SCHOLASTIC DISHONESTY: • Your teachers are committed to helping you understand the abstract concepts of academic integrity and the consequences of scholastic dishonesty, in particular cheating. Our goal is to create a school environment that encourages and promotes academic integrity. However, in addition to providing instruction about academic integrity, there are consequences for scholastic dishonesty.

Consequences… • A student who represents someone’s work as her or his own will receive a “0” on the assignment and will be required to redo the work for a maximum of 50% credit. • A student who uses unauthorized materials to gain an unfair advantage over her/his classmates will receive a “0” on the quiz or test. • Example: use of notes when taking closed-note quiz or test • A student who aids and abets scholastic dishonesty will also receive consequences. • Examples: allowing someone to copy his/her work; providing answers to quiz or test items, recycling old homework assignments, essays or projects for different class or grade; sharing test items with students in later classes.

Now Let’s Check your answers… • Answer: A = 3 pts, B = 2pts, C = 0 pts, D = 0pts • Answer: A = 0, B = 2, C = 3, D = 0 • Answer: A = 1, B = 2, C = 0, D = 3 • Answer: A = 0, B = 3, C = 1, D = 2 • Answer: A = 0, B = 3, C=2, D=1 • Answer: A = 3, B = 0, C = 0, D = 2 • Answer: A = 3, B = 1, C = 0, D = 0 • Answer: A = 0, B = 1, C = 3, D = 2 • Answer: A=0, B=0, C=3, D=0 • Answer: A=0, B=0, C=0, D=3

ETHICS SCALE: NOW ADD IT UP! • 0 –10: Your teachers will be seriously concerned with your level of academic honesty and ethics. Perhaps you should reconsider your behavior. • 11-20: Not bad, but it's probably a good idea to check with your teachers about what they consider to be academic integrity. Each subject can vary on specific rules of collaboration and expectations. • 21-29: Hey, you're pretty honest and your teachers probably trust you! • 30: Nobody's perfect, nor do we expect them to be. Did you answer what YOU would do in a situation, or what you thought your teachers want you to do?

Your teachers are here to help you learn. Remember, good grades should never come at the expense of your integrity.

TUESDAY... • You will create academic integrity posters based on Kealing’s Academic Integrity Policy. Posters will hang outside your advisory door to be judged the week of September 30th-October 4th. Winners for each category, the categories being, “Be Honest” or “Ask Questions”, etc. will be announced Friday, October 4th. • Get in to groups of 2-3 for a total of 7 groups. • Each group will create a poster about one portion of the policy: • Be honest • Ask questions • Use class time productively and do your best to complete assignments on time • Prepare for projects, quizzes and tests. • Know the difference between collaboration and cheating • Give credit when credit is due • Create original work • You will create a colorful poster, intergrit-e card, educating your fellow students about an assigned portion of our academic integrity policy. Posters should demonstrate why academic integrity is important.

YOUR E-NTEGRITY POSTER Should Can Use sarcasm Be funny Make us think • Be appropriate • Demonstrate why academic integrity is important • Focus on a single portion of the policy. • Examples: preparing for quizzes OR asking questions • Have correct grammar • Hang outside your classroom

Example: Know the difference between cheating and collaboration.

Example: Give credit when credit is due.

EXAMPLE: Be honest!

Example: Create original work OR Give credit when credit is due.

EXAMPLE: Be honest or Know the difference between collaboration and cheating.

CREDITS • Global Image from http://www.gsc.upenn.edu/navclass/ • Plagiarism Word Cloud created from http://www.wordle.net/

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