Pertaining to preventing, punishing, or handling the consequences of academic dishonesty in coursework or examinations. Also, defining what constitutes academic dishonesty. (For questions on dishonesty in the research and/or research publication process, use 'research-misconduct' instead.)
Questions tagged [cheating]
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Student caught cheating when leaving class after handing me the exam
Usually I am quite clear that cheating and plagiarism are unacceptable. Although every semester I have to deal with several cases of plagiarism, I had not expected students to brazenly cheat in exams. A few seconds after one student handed me the…
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How to prevent students from using modified calculators to cheat on exams?
Recently my faculty (mathematics and statistics) and I have been dealing with widespread cheating due to calculators that have been modified so as to have more functionality than is permitted.
At my university we have a standardized calculator that…
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What is the justification for the typical punishment of a student who did not cheat but helped others cheat?
Imagine this scenario: you're in an exam. Somebody asks for your help to answer a question. You help them (whisper the answer, slip them a note, whatever). You get caught. You get punished.
That's fine. You're not allowed to help others cheat. You…
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My partner posted our code on Github and I am now being investigated for cheating. What to do?
Last year I took a class where we had to work with a partner on programming assignments. Apparently someone's solution from this year has a 50% match with our solution from last year. I did not share my code with anyone but I would not be…
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Acquaintance is paying friend to do his coding for an Ivy League master's degree. What should I do?
I'm relatively close to someone who is currently attending an Ivy League graduate program. He believes he has it all made in life and yet here he is paying one of my friends to do his coding assignments and projects.
It is an online program, so it…
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How can I decline the request to help a fellow student cheat?
I have been helping a fellow student through a class I'm taking this semester - sending him homeworks, helping prepare him for tests, etc. The other day we had our final, which was online, and he asked me if he could pay me to send him the solutions…
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Is it fair to use techniques I found on the web to solve my assignment?
I'd want to get perspective on what I feel is an unjustified case of academic misconduct.
I am taking a mathematics subject and part of my assignment was to submit answers to questions given.
One of the questions I was unsure of what method I…
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Is it academically dishonest to submit the same project to two different classes in the same semester?
I overheard a student who said that they would use a project done in another course that semester as the final project in an entirely different course. (Let's call the original course Course 0 and the second course Course 2.)
I know it's bad…
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Accused of cheating on a class that I passed a year ago. Can my "pass" be revoked? Could this missing prerequisite affect other classes I have passed?
I’ve been accused of cheating in a class that I passed a year ago, and since then I have proceeded to pass the next class in line after that class. This class was a first year class, I’m now in my second year and I’m unsure on what this means. Are…
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I uploaded my test questions to a website (so I could cheat), but then thought better of it and didn't use the answers. How to proceed?
So, I was taking my exam, and there were two questions I really had no clue on, and I was running out of time on. So I quickly went to a website and posted pictures of my exam questions and asked for answers. I immediately regretted doing so, and…
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What is the rationale behind requiring a meeting before filing academic misconduct charges?
Some universities have a rule that, for example, "if it appears that a student in your class may be guilty of academic misconduct, you must promptly ask the student to meet with you informally to discuss your concerns." The quote is taken from one…
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Should I admit to accidentally cheating on an exam?
Like most students and professors during the pandemic, I attended my classes online for over a year. The online lectures weren't mandatory, and I stopped attending after the first day and relied on my readings to guide me.
During our first test,…
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Caught with my phone during an exam
There was about 30 mins left of the exam, everything had been going well so far, I got nervous as there was 1 question I hadn't answered that was worth a few marks, so I made the irresponsible decision to check my phone, the moment I pulled it out…
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What to do when wrongfully accused of cheating?
For a couple of days ago I had an in class online quiz consisting of multiple choices. I had read and prepared for the quiz and got a 80%, not too well but not bad either.
Several days after the exam I got a email from my professor saying that two…
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Is it cheating if the proctor gives a student the answer key by mistake and the student doesn't report it?
I gave a test in person this week. For the students that require accommodations, I submitted it online. The staff that provides the accommodations at their facility printed the test and gave it to student "A". When the next student went to take it,…
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