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"_______ is a basic guiding principle for all academic activity at The Pennsylvania State University, and all members of the University community are expected to act in accordance with this principle.”
What is Academic Integrity?
This famous scientist, who always had a bad hair day, once said, "Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters."
Who is Albert Einstein?
Submitting your own work for assignments, tests, and exams, and guaranteeing it is your own creation, shows that you are ____________?
What is Honest (or Proud of Your Work)?
Making up information or data and presenting it as true.
What is Fabrication?
( a violation of Academic Integrity)
True or False?
If a faculty member alleges that you were involved in an act of plagiarism, you have the opportunity to challenge the faculty member's allegation as a part of the University's formal discipline process
What is True?
__________ is a formal document that sets clear rules and guidelines for expected behavior within an organization, defining acceptable actions and ethical standards for employees and other stakeholders.
What is a Code of Conduct?
This famous author once said, "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
Who is Mark Twain
Properly crediting the ideas, words, and images of others by using quotation marks, footnotes, endnotes, and citation formats like MLA or APA.
What is Citing your work properly (Or Accurate Citations)
Allowing another student to copy from an exam or assignment.
What is Cheating?
(A Violation of Academic Integrity)
A classmate mentions to you how upset she is. She tells you she's found out that if she fails the upcoming chemistry test, she'll lose her scholarship. You've already taken the chemistry test and tell her what she needs to study.
What is a violation of academic integrity?
Any act of dishonesty that results in an unfair academic advantage, including cheating, plagiarism, fabrication of data, and unauthorized collaboration.
What is an Academic Integrity Violation?
Not sure if the Lion, the Witch, or the Wardrobe remembers this author saying, "Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching."
Who is C.S. Lewis?
Not doing class work for other students and respecting their contributions to group projects.
What is Fairness?
Completing an assignment for another student and allowing them to submit it as their own work
What is Falsifying Authorship?
(A Violation of Academic Integrity)
A student may also receive a lower grade or failing grade, conduct warning, conduct probation, conduct suspension, or an XF symbol on his/her transcript as a conduct sanction.
What is the consequence of engaging in an Academic Integrity Violation?
Presenting someone else’s work without proper accreditation.
What is Plagiarism?
This American Baptist Minister, and civil rights activist said: "The time is always right to do what is right."
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
Acting in the best interest of the academic community, even when facing difficulties, and doing the "right thing.
What is Ethical Conduct?
Sharing or using academic materials like tests, assignments, or slides without the instructor's permission.
What is an Academic Integrity Violation
In your PSU 16 class, your professor tells you to use AI to answer the question: What are the consequences of using AI on exams and homework.
Did you violate academic integrity?
What is NO
Tools that can create original data, such as text, video, images, and even music.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
What is Artificial Intelligence (Chat GPT)
This inventor and founding father once said, "Honesty is the best policy."
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Consistently and accurately citing sources to respect the intellectual property of others and keeping academic materials private, such as class slides and assignments, unless permitted by the instructor.
Daily Double!!
What is Respect?
Providing information about an exam to another student who has not yet taken the exam
What is a violation of Academic Integrity?
Location of instructions on the allowable use of AI and ChatGPT for the assignments and exams in a course.
What is the Syllabus?