Academic Integrity in a Digital Age

Cheating

Often times you find a lot of resources referring to guidelines and sanctions planned for supervision of examinations. Have you ever thought why? One answer is to prevent cheating. Cheating manifests itself in many forms (Schroeder, Pepper &  Nettle, 2014; Ahmed & Ullah, 2015; Silverman, 2015; Wager, 2012). Some of the examples might include: 

• Copying from another student's examination, paper, laboratory work, or homework assignment or copying some one's dissertation
• Possession or use of pre-prepared notes, or other resources, in any form, during an examination, unless such use is expressly authorized by the instructor. In many universities there are examinations that allow open book, especially in Law studies
• Revising a work after its final evaluation and representing the revised version as being the original work
• Usingthe external assistance, including but not limited to tutors, books, notes, and calculators, on any "in class" or "take-home" examination, unless the instructor has specifically authorized external assistance
• Allowing others to conduct research or to prepare work for you without advance authorization from the instructor to whom the work is being submitted
• Unauthorized use of electronic instruments, such as cell phones, pagers, or PDAs, to access or share information
• Submitting for academic advancement an item of academic work that you have previously submitted for academic advancement without prior authorization from the faculty member supervising the work