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VCU Honor System

VCU Honor System. Virginia Commonwealth University. from VCU Honor System:. “Virginia Commonwealth University recognizes that honesty, truth, and integrity are values central to its mission as an institution of higher education.”. from VCU Accepted:.

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VCU Honor System

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  1. VCU Honor System Virginia Commonwealth University

  2. from VCU Honor System: “Virginia Commonwealth University recognizes that honesty, truth, and integrity are values central to its mission as an institution of higher education.”

  3. from VCU Accepted: “The VCU Honor System obliges each student to understand the types of conduct that are unacceptable, to refrain from acts of cheating and plagiarism and to report those who violate these standards.”

  4. from VCU Accepted: “The system’s effectiveness depends upon each student’s acceptance of responsibility for it.”

  5. A Student’s Responsibilities: • All VCU students are presumed upon enrollment to have acquainted themselves with and have an understanding of the Honor System. • It is a student’s responsibility to ask course instructors to clarify expectations for each assignment in order to be in compliance with the Honor System.

  6. We remind the community … • ALWAYS bring questions to professors and faculty. • If you hear people talking about or you witness dishonorable activities contact the faculty member responsible for instruction or the Assistant/Associate Dean of the appropriate school/college.

  7. Therefore … • Lack of knowledge of the policy is never an excuse for an infraction. • Lack of understanding of the stated directions for an assignment is never an excuse for an infraction. • “…enrollment in classes at VCU implies consent to observe and adhere to all university policies.”

  8. The Honor System Honor Pledge: “On my honor, I have neither given nor received aid on this assignment, and I pledge I am in compliance with the Honor System.” Did you know that instructors may give assignments to students in one of two ways: As “pledged” work for which the students will sign a pledge statement indicating that the work was completed independently, or As “unpledged” work, which may be completed in collaboration with others as directed by the instructor. Neither the presence nor the absence of a signed pledge statement, however, shall prevent a student from being charged with a possible violation or from being held to the standards of the Honor System.

  9. Honor System Violations: • Plagiarizing • Cheating • Facilitating Academic Dishonesty • Lying Related to Academic Matters • Stealing Academic Materials

  10. Plagiarism: “Representing the words, ideas, facts, opinions, theories, illustrations, tables or any part of another’s work as one’s own on academic assignment without customary and proper acknowledgement of the source.”

  11. (actual) Examples of Plagiarism:

  12. Student’s Journalism Class Assignment: First three paragraphs:

  13. From an article on villagenewsonline.net:

  14. Paragraph from a student’s paper:

  15. Paragraph from a journal article:

  16. Assignment was for student to take pictures of specific faunae. Student used a picture from an internet source

  17. Section of student’s paper From published source

  18. Questions?

  19. Cheating: “Receiving, giving and attempting to receive or give unauthorized assistance, such as materials, devices, information, notes, or sources, on academic matters.”

  20. (actual) Examples of Cheating:

  21. Phone found in the student’s lap. Found on the phone was cheat sheets…

  22. Paragraph from Student #1’s paper:

  23. Paragraph from Student #2’s paper:

  24. Answers from Student #1’s final exam:

  25. Answers from Student #2’s final exam:

  26. Side by Side Comparison:

  27. Answer from Student #1’s math homework:

  28. Answer from Student #2’s math homework:

  29. Side by Side Comparison:

  30. Answer from Student A’s Exam

  31. Answer from Student B’s Exam

  32. Answer from Student A’s Exam. Incorrect for their version but identical to the alternative version of the exam Answer from Student B’s Exam. Correct for their version of the exam. Student B was sitting to the left of Student A.

  33. Student’s answer from Spring 2011

  34. The 2011 assignment question Question from 2009 Assignment

  35. Part of Student C’s Code Part of Student D’s Code

  36. Questions?

  37. Facilitating Academic Dishonesty: “Helping or soliciting another person to commit an act of academic dishonesty.”

  38. ExampleFacilitating Academic Dishonesty: Two programs/playbills from a tuba concert attended by two students. Student #1 attended the program – their signed program is on the top. The bottom program/signature belongs to student #2 who did NOT attend the program. Students #1 and #2 are roommates. A signature on the program is all that is needed to prove attendance and get a grade for the assignment.

  39. Questions?

  40. Lying: “ Transferring, transmitting or communicating any false statements concerning academic matters.”

  41. A note submitted by a student:

  42. The note the doctor actually gave to the student:

  43. T.A.’s signature forged

  44. Questions?

  45. Stealing: “Taking or making Academic Materials inaccessible, thereby temporarily or permanently depriving others of its use or possession.”

  46. Academic Integrity Quiz? How will you do?

  47. Academic Integrity Quiz Thank you USC, VCU, BC & Cornell University Jerome is taking an upper level engineering class. There is a solutions manual available online. It shows how to work out every example problem in his textbook. The exams for the class are made up of example questions from the book. Jerome uses the solutions manual to study and practice, but does not use it when taking the exam. Is this a violation? Yes/No/Maybe

  48. Academic Integrity Quiz Thank you USC, VCU, BC & Cornell University Alan is taking Organic Chemistry Lab. Students are required to keep a notebook for their lab experiments. They are told that they can not use another student’s, because they will be allowed to use it during quizzes and exams. During the last quiz, Alan had the notebook of a previous semester’s student on top of his desk. Is this a violation? Yes/No/Maybe

  49. Academic Integrity Quiz Thank you USC, VCU, BC & Cornell University Ingrid is assigned to write a paper. She cuts and pastes material from Wikipedia into her paper. Because she also copied the source citations included on Wikipedia, she does not cite Wikipedia in her bibliography as a source for her paper. Is this a violation? Yes/No/Maybe

  50. Academic Integrity Quiz Tom is taking two classes and has papers to write in each. The assigned topics for the final papers are overlapping, so Tom writes a single paper and turns it in for both courses. Is this a violation? Yes/No/Maybe

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