Academic Integrity Policy (AIP)

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Academic Integrity Policy (AIP)

• Academic and Student Affairs
• Fall 2008

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Academic Integrity

• Agenda for the session -
• ASU Academic Integrity Policy
• Code of Ethics
• What cheating is
• Typical sanctions
• Case discussions
• Summary
• Quiz

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All students must be aware of and adhere to the
ASU Academic Integrity Policy (AIP)

• Web site
• http//www.asu.edu/studentaffairs/studentlife/judi
  cial/academic_integrity

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A student in the Ira A. Fulton School of
Engineering is expected to act in an honest,
ethical and professional manner.
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Ethical Responsibility

• From NSPE Code of Ethics for Engineers
  PreambleEngineering is an important and learned
  profession. As members of this profession,
  engineers are expected to exhibit the highest
  standards of honesty and integrity. Engineering
  has a direct and vital impact on the quality of
  life for all people. Accordingly, the services
  provided by engineers require honesty,
  impartiality, fairness, and equity, and must be
  dedicated to the protection of the public health,
  safety, and welfare. Engineers must perform under
  a standard of professional behavior that requires
  adherence to the highest principles of ethical
  conduct.

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What does being ethical mean?

• What is cheating?

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Cheating includes

• Submitting work that is not your own.
• Copying from someone else or someone else helped
  you to the point where it is not your work.
• Receiving help when the instructor has indicated
  students must work individually (help not
  authorized by the instructor)
• Using materials not authorized by the instructor.
• Plagiarizing not documenting other peoples
  work.
• Obtaining code from the internet and using it as
  your own.

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Examples of Cheating Cases

• Receiving assistance from a classmate on homework
  or project(when not authorized by the professor)
• Copying homework, labs or stealing the
  information
• Plagiarism on a project or paper
• Group working together without instructors
  authorization
• Cheating on an exam

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Typical Sanctions for violating the Academic
Integrity Policy

1. Zero points for the project, homework assignment,
   or exam.
2. Zero points for the project, homework assignment,
   or exam and course grade lowered by one letter
   grade.
3. E (failing) grade or XE (dishonesty) grade for
   the course
4. Disqualification, suspension or expulsion from
   the School of Engineering

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Case Discussion

• In groups of three or four students discuss Case
  1, 2 and 3 provided by your instructor
• Identify a recorder who will take notes for your
  group
• As a group answer the questions associated with
  each case
• Your recorder should record the groups answers
  to case questions
• The recorder will then report to the class your
  group discussion for each case

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Read and discuss Case 1Handouts in instructor
packet under student handouts
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CASE 1 Manny and Bob take home final

• What do you think the professor should do?
• What sanction would you give the students?
• What would your parents think if you cheated?
• How would you feel if you were caught cheating?

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Case 1 Result

• Bob received a grade of E (his first violation of
  AIP)
• Manny received an XE grade and suspension from
  ASU for one academic year (his second violation
  of AIP)
• An XE grade noted as academic dishonesty was
  recorded on the official transcript
• An AIP file will be maintained in the Deans
  office for six years or until the student
  graduates

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Read and discuss Case 2Handouts in instructor
packet under student handouts
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Case 2Lisas project is not working

•  If you were John what would you do?
• If you were Lisa what would you do?
• The student who took the report and used it as
  their own was not willing to admit it was not
  their work What would you do if you were the
  professor? 
• What sanctions would you give the two students?

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Case 2 Results

• Instructor could not determine who did what so
  both students received an E grade in the course.
• Typically the student who provides the work and
  the student who uses the work are both sanctioned
  when an instructor is not able to determine who
  did what.
• An AIP file will be maintained in the Deans
  office for both students for 6 years or until
  student graduates.

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Read and discuss Case 1Handouts in instructor
packet under student handouts
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Case 3Graduate Students Plagiarize

• As the professor of the course what would you do?
  
• What sanctions would you give the team?
• How do you think the four students felt?
• Should their degrees be removed?
• If you were an employer and you found out that
  the student cheated and didnt have a degree what
  action would you take?

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Case 3 Sanctions

• The School of Engineering retracted each
  students degrees.
• All four students were given an XE grade for the
  course. The students appealed the decision, but
  the decision was upheld by the Hearing Board and
  the Deans Designee.
• All four students scrambled to enroll in one
  course to complete their degrees as they were
  currently employed under the pretense of having a
  degree.

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Why do some students cheat?

• I wanted a higher grade
• I was very stressed
• I ran out of time due to work and classes
• Everyone else does it ??????
• I need to keep my scholarship
• I do not wish to repeat this course
• I thought anything in the internet could be used
  without documenting
• I thought I could get away with it

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Student Obligation

• To be honest
• To do your own work
• To be ethical
• To do what is moral and fair

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Summary

• Students must adhere to the Academic Integrity
  Policy (AIP).
• Students have an ethical obligation to submit
  their own work.
• Students need to take reasonable measures to
  avoid having their work be copied.
• Violations of the AIP can result in
  disqualification, suspension or expulsion from
  the School of Engineering.
• Honesty is the best policy.

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Summary (Possible Sanctions)

• Zero points for the project, homework
  assignment, or exam.
• Zero points for the project, homework assignment,
  or exam and course grade lowered by one letter
  grade.
• An E (failing) grade or XE (dishonesty) grade
  for the course.
• Disqualification, suspension or expulsion from
  the School of Engineering.

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As a Fulton student it is a priority to act in an
honest, ethical and professional manner.
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Quiz

• Give one example of cheating?
• What is an XE?
• Give an example of a sanction besides an XE?
• Where is the AIP file kept?
• When is the AIP file destroyed?
• Give one reason why a student should not cheat?

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Questions?