5 RISP Academic Misconduct

The Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct lists six categories of academic misconduct. The activities are defined and discussed below.

1. Cheating is when a student uses or attempts to use unauthorized materials, student aids, or information in any academic exercise. Some examples of cheating are:

• Using an aid on an “in-class” or “take-home” examination when these aids have not been authorized by the course instructor.
• Having another person take an examination or quiz in place of the student.
• Stealing examinations or otherwise gaining unauthorized prior access to the examination content.
• Using the work of a group as the student’s individual work.
• Using assistance in a laboratory, on a computer terminal, or for fieldwork when this assistance has not been authorized by the course instructor.
• Changing a grade or score in any way.
• Attempting to gain a regrading of a returned examination the student has altered after consulting a posted key or after discussion of the answers with others.

2. Fabrication is when a student falsifies or invents information or data in an academic assignment. Some examples include:

• Falsifying data in laboratory results.
• Falsifying data in Evalue
• Inventing information for records or reports.
• Reporting fictitious interviews, or ascribing information to an interview that did not take place or that did not cover the topic claimed.

3. Facilitating academic dishonesty is when a student aids or attempts to aid another student in committing academic misconduct. Examples of such activities might be:

• Allowing another student to copy answers on examinations.
• Creating a distraction in class or clinic allowing another student to cheat in some fashion.
• Not covering personal papers or computer screens thus allowing others to cheat off of you.
• Writing a paper for another student.

4. Interference is when a student prevents another student’s work from being completed or evaluated properly. Examples might include:

• Stealing or changing another student’s work before it is evaluated.
• Destroying another student’s work.
• Stealing or defacing shared necessary resources to deprive others of their use.
• Offering bribes or favors to affect a grade or an evaluation of academic work.
• Making threats to affect a grade or an evaluation of academic work.

5. Plagiarism is when a student uses ideas, words or statements of another person without giving credit to that person. Examples could include:

• Presenting the ideas, opinions or theories of others as your own.
• Using another person’s exact words without proper citation.
• Using facts, statistics, tables, or figures from existing sources without proper citation.

6. Violation of course rules is when a student fails to abide by the rules stated in the course syllabus when those rules are related to course content or to enhancement of the learning process in the course. Examples of common violations include:

• Working with a group when a project is intended to be for each individual.
• Using unauthorized materials for examinations or projects.
• Breach of civility towards others

Please read the following statements and initial each one indicating your full understanding of the topic.

I understand the meaning of academic misconduct.

1. I understand the meaning of the six categories of academic misconduct.
2. I understand that academic misconduct will not be tolerated in the Radiography Program.
3. I understand that academic misconduct in the Radiography Program will result in severe repercussions up to and including Program dismissal.
4. I have had an opportunity to ask questions about the Academic Misconduct policy.
5. I understand that I must use a privacy screen on my personal laptop during all assessments.
6. I understand that I may be asked to use the video camera on my laptop at any time.
7. I understand that watching and/or knowing of others committing academic misconduct and not reporting it is an act of misconduct against myself.

Printed Name      _________________________

Signature:  ________________

Date: _________

IMPORTANT:  Faculty take academic misconduct very seriously and hold all students to the same ethical standards. If a student(s) commits any form of academic misconduct, they should expect faculty to initiate academic misconduct proceedings against the student whether that student is enrolled in the course or not.

NOTE:  Students will be given a hard copy of this document to sign.

Reviewed Jan21