Academic Integrity
BASE expects all students to adhere to the highest standards of academic honesty and integrity. Violations of academic integrity include cheating, plagiarizing, turning in another’s papers or projects, giving one’s work to others, passing test information to others, misrepresenting other’s work as their own, or being found in possession of another’s work.
Definitions
We use the definition of academic dishonesty as behavior that results in, or may result in, the student or any other student
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gaining an unfair advantage in one or more assessment components. For example, using resources that are not allowable on the assessment.
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using work or words that are not their own on their assessment.
A student’s work should always be their own work, following the parameters of the assessment. The following definitions are helpful in understanding our complete definition of academic integrity:
Plagiarism is taking credit for someone else’s words, work or ideas without giving them credit. (Using AI as the content generation vehicle for an assignment is also plagiarism.)
Cheating by the unauthorized use of information, notes, study aids, or unauthorized technology on assessments.
Collusion is letting someone copy from you or letting someone turn in your work as theirs.
Duplication of work is turning in the same assignment for two or more classes.
Misconduct during an assessment is copying someone’s answers, letting someone copy your work, looking up answers, bringing answers into the test room, or using tools/material that the teacher has not approved.
Confidentiality is not sharing assessment content, questions, or answers with students who have not yet taken the assessment. Students are not to discuss assessments until all students have taken the assessment or the assessment is returned to the student.
What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is the use of another person’s words, ideas, or facts as if they were your own, without giving credit to the original source.
- Plagiarism Examples
- Guidelines for Avoiding Plagiarism
- Consequences of Plagiarism or Violations of Academic Integrity
- Second Offenses and Extreme Cases