1. Academic Integrity
Lauren Reiter
Presentation originally developed
by Dan Hickey

2. Academic Integrity @ Penn State
“The pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest
and responsible manner. […] the University's Code of
Conduct states that all students should act with
personal integrity, respect other students' dignity,
rights and property, and help create and maintain an
environment in which all can succeed.”
Policy 49-20

3. Watterson

4. Academic integrity is compromised by:
• Fabrication of • Submitting the work of
information or another person, or work
citations previously used without
informing the instructor
• Facilitating acts of
academic dishonesty • Tampering with the
by others academic work of other
students
• Unauthorized
possession of
examinations

5. Live Poll
Have you ever engaged in one of these
behaviors?
1)Yes
2)No
This is anonymous!
Students in class will text in their responses to
this Poll Everywhere survey

6. Student Perceptions of Practices Most
Likely to Be Seen as Cheating:
Watterson

7. Student Perceptions of Practices Most
Likely to Be Seen as Cheating:
• Using an unapproved aid during an exam (96%)
• Copying from another student’s paper or exam
(97%)
• Taking a test for someone else or having
someone else take a test for you (97%)
• Exchanging answer sheets or papers during a
test (98%) PULSE survey

8. Student Perceptions of Practices Least
Likely to Be Seen as Cheating:
• Not telling instructor about a grading error in
their favor (69%)
• Submitting the same paper for more than one
class without permission (55%)
• Giving or getting exam information from
someone in another section (42%)
PULSE survey

9. Reasons to Cheat that Some
Students Perceive as “Justifiable”:
• Get a better grade or GPA (20%)
• Insufficient preparation (11%)
• Personal issues including stress and personal/family
problems (9%)
• Time management (8%)
• Little concern for academic integrity (6%)
• Instruction issues (5%) PULSE Survey Presentation

10. Awareness and Prevalence of Cheating
Perceive this
behavior to be Have engaged in
cheating this behavior
Males Females Male Females
Behavior n=599 n=532 n=620 n=563
Ask students in another section of a course for
information about a test you will take at a
later time or to give other students
information about a test % % % %
Receive help on a take-home test in which you
are not allowed to collaborate with others
% % % %
Allow someone to copy your assignment or
paper % % % %
Use someone else’s ideas or words without
referencing or crediting the original source % % % %
PULSE Survey Presentation

11. Awareness and Prevalence of Cheating
Perceive this
behavior to be Have engaged in
cheating this behavior
Males Females Male Females
Behavior n=599 n=532 n=620 n=563
Ask students in another section of a course for
information about a test you will take at a
later time or to give other students
information about a test 57% 60% 53% 59%
Receive help on a take-home test in which you
are not allowed to collaborate with others
80% 87% 30% 30%
Allow someone to copy your assignment or
paper 91% 93% 25% 21%
Use someone else’s ideas or words without
referencing or crediting the original source 91% 95% 16% 8%
PULSE Survey Presentation

12. Awareness and Prevalence of Cheating
Perceive this
behavior to be Have engaged in
cheating this behavior
Males Females Male Females
Behavior n=599 n=532 n=620 n=563
Turn in the same paper for more than one
class (without receiving permission from the
instructors) % % % %
Not tell an instructor when an error has been
made in your favor in scoring a test or an
assignment % % % %
Lie to an instructor about having an illness or
some other emergency when you’ve missed
a test or assignment % % % %
PULSE Survey Presentation

13. Live Poll
What percent of students lied about an
illness/emergency after missing a deadline/text
to avoid a lower grade?
1)8%
2)16%
3)22%
4)35%
Students in class will text in their responses to
this Poll Everywhere survey

14. Awareness and Prevalence of Cheating
Perceive this
behavior to be Have engaged in
cheating this behavior
Males Females Male Females
Behavior n=599 n=532 n=620 n=563
Turn in the same paper for more than one
class (without receiving permission from the
instructors) 41% 50% 22% 20%
Not tell an instructor when an error has been
made in your favor in scoring a test or an
assignment 28% 34% 35% 32%
Lie to an instructor about having an illness or
some other emergency when you’ve missed
a test or assignment 72% 71% 16% 16%
PULSE Survey Presentation

15. What is Plagiarism?
The action or practice of taking someone
else's work, idea, design, etc., and passing
it off as one's own; intellectual theft.
- Oxford English Dictionary

16. • Program that gauges the originality of student
work and aids in detecting plagiarism
• Used in more than 3,500 higher education
institutions
• Used by over 650 Penn State instructors

17. Turnitin searches:
• A current and archived copy of the publicly
accessible Internet
• Millions of published works from content
publishers
• Over 250 million student papers submitted to
Turnitin student archive (including PSU
students)

18. Turnitin.com

21. Now we can:
• Define academic integrity
• Identify how specific behaviors violate Penn
State’s academic integrity policy
• Visualize how the behaviors are related