WEEK 2 POST
CQU STUDENT ID :s0113833
1.What is academic misconduct?
According to (Central Queensland University 2006) states that academic misconduct is generally considered as one of the aspects of the student misconduct which seriously deviates from those ethical standards for proposing and publishing research that are commonly accepted within the professional community results academic misconduct in violation of University policy, includes plagiarism ,copying of materials, misconduct in examination time.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is copying , duplicating or representing other ideas, works, and notes without proper acknowledgement or in terms of referencing.
· Copying or duplicating another person’s work, ideas, articles without the knowledge of the persons and presenting the work in public committee with proper acknowledgement or referencing.
Misconduct in Examinations and Reports
· Taking unauthorized materials to the examination class
· Copying information from another student paper in examinations
· presenting false medical reports against shortage of attendance
· presenting false academic transcript
2.How is academic misconduct identified by CQU? That is how does the University find out whether or not a student has done something that might be academic misconduct?
A recent report (Central Queensland University 2006) CQU identifies student academic misconduct through a specific format in which is paper based consisting of CQU policy lists. These lists are like predefined catalogues used for analysis and decision making in academic misconduct. The stages of process are as follows:
Academic misconduct according to CQU appears mainly in two ways
· The Lecturer or the assignment marker finds that the assignments of two students appear to be similar in nature i.e. when some contents of the assignment are likely to be the same. Then it is concluded to be the issue of academic misconduct.
· Secondly CQU uses a software which helps in detecting the Plagiarism (copying ) as it is considered to be one of the academic misconduct. In this system the student assignments are feed for analysis and finally this will give report rate of copying.
CQU STUDENT ID :s0113833
1.What is academic misconduct?
According to (Central Queensland University 2006) states that academic misconduct is generally considered as one of the aspects of the student misconduct which seriously deviates from those ethical standards for proposing and publishing research that are commonly accepted within the professional community results academic misconduct in violation of University policy, includes plagiarism ,copying of materials, misconduct in examination time.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is copying , duplicating or representing other ideas, works, and notes without proper acknowledgement or in terms of referencing.
· Copying or duplicating another person’s work, ideas, articles without the knowledge of the persons and presenting the work in public committee with proper acknowledgement or referencing.
Misconduct in Examinations and Reports
· Taking unauthorized materials to the examination class
· Copying information from another student paper in examinations
· presenting false medical reports against shortage of attendance
· presenting false academic transcript
2.How is academic misconduct identified by CQU? That is how does the University find out whether or not a student has done something that might be academic misconduct?
A recent report (Central Queensland University 2006) CQU identifies student academic misconduct through a specific format in which is paper based consisting of CQU policy lists. These lists are like predefined catalogues used for analysis and decision making in academic misconduct. The stages of process are as follows:
Academic misconduct according to CQU appears mainly in two ways
· The Lecturer or the assignment marker finds that the assignments of two students appear to be similar in nature i.e. when some contents of the assignment are likely to be the same. Then it is concluded to be the issue of academic misconduct.
· Secondly CQU uses a software which helps in detecting the Plagiarism (copying ) as it is considered to be one of the academic misconduct. In this system the student assignments are feed for analysis and finally this will give report rate of copying.
3.Based on your experience, what could CQU do to reduce student academic misconduct?
As an employee from CQU I.T. Division the University can make further steps to reduce the academic misconduct. Since CQU has already ethics and policies in solving the issues of student misconduct, in addition it can focus its attention in helping the student in key techniques for various assignments from the different prescribed, valued journals or articles in the Internet.
Further more the student can be assigned topic for exercise in which related journals can be assigned to them in the Tutorial class room. Then the students can make a practice in searching the stuff from the Internet to analyses and determine that this information is published from authorized point.
As a whole CQU can get the assistance of a third party tool, a software which can relate keywords with relevant topics for the assignments thereby the student can fine tune them for wide Knowledge in vocabulary and understanding concepts.
References
Central Queensland University (CQU) 1998-2004, COIS20025 System Development and Overview : Current sytem, viewed 25 November 2006,
http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2006/T3/COIS20025/Assessment/Background/Current_System/
Central Queensland University (CQU) 1998-2004, COIS20025 System Development and Overview : Background, viewed 23 November 2006,
