1. North Haven Middle School C. Schwartz LMS February 2017
Academic Dishonesty
North Haven Middle School
C. Schwartz LMS
February 2017

2. Academic Dishonesty What is it all about?
What do students need to know?
What happens if you violate?
How can we prevent it?

3. Academic Dishonesty Policy
North Haven Public Schools’ BOE policy includes:
Cheating
Plagiarism
Students are expected to pursue their school work with integrity and honesty. Cheating and plagiarism demonstrates a lack of integrity and character that is inconsistent with the goals and values of the District.
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

4. Cheating
Copying or attempting to copy another student’s homework, quiz, test, essay or lab report.
Cheating on tests through such means as cheat sheets, use of unauthorized electronic devices, and discussion of test information with other students
Obtaining test questions and/or copies of tests outside the classroom setting
Lending and/or copying from another student’s work (homework, tests, projects, assignments)
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

5. Cheating (Continued)
Altering or interfering with grading (forging signatures, changing or inserting answers on work after grading).
Allowing another student to copy answers during a test situation.
Collaborating with other students on an assignment in direct violation of teachers instructions.
Using books and electronic information in generating on an assignment in direct violation of teachers instructions.
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

6. Cheating (Continued)
Accessing, taking an benefitting from copies of tests and quizzes previously used or to be used by teachers without permission
Submitting work previously presented in this course or in any course unless authorized by the affected teacher.
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

7. Plagiarism
Defined as copying the language, structure and /or ideas of another and representing them as one’s own work. Examples include but not limited to:
Copying material from the source, including the Internet, without citing the source
Paraphrasing the source without proper citation.
Copying stories, in whole or part, which appear in books, magazines, television, film or electronic media.
Copying directly, without making changes, alterations or adaptations from a drawing, painting, illustration, photographic image, or graphic symbol without citing the source
Submitting papers written in whole or part by someone else.
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

8. Plagiarism (continued)
“Submitting papers on which the student has received substantial assistance from peers and/or adults that dramatically changes the character of the work so that it is no longer the student’s own.”
“Submitting a paper purchased from a research or term paper service, including, but not limited to the Internet”.
“When a student puts his/her name on a piece of work, it is that student’s responsibility to distinush between what is his/hers and what is not and to credit those who have in any way contributed”.
Source: North Haven Board of Education Policy (b) 6/29/16.

9. Consequences
A student who engages in any form of academic dishonesty will be subject to the loss of credit for the work in question, as well as other disciplinary measures.
Could include suspension or explusion

10. Preventing Plagiarism
Prepare a works cited document
Use in paragraph citation when necessary
Do NOT copy and paste
Practice good note taking strategies

11. What is a Works Cited? List of all the sources used Books
Encyclopedias
Websites
Videos
Pictures

12. Works cited Cite every source Note taking sheets MLA format
On-line bibliography maker

13. Easybib On-line Citation Maker
Record all sources
Formats correctly
Search by URL, book title or ISBN #

14. Why do a Works cited? Give credit to your sources Check accuracy
Required

15. What happens if you don’t?
Unsure of sources
No credit given
Plagiarism
Penalties

16. Strategies Read/Think/Write Practice good note taking skills
No complete sentences
Use shorthand or phrases
Outline
Be careful with Internet sources
Do not copy and paste

17. Information Sources Use multiple sources Multiple formats
Print (book, encyclopedia, periodical
Internet (web sites, databases)
Other media (video)
- Interview

18. Print Sources Information needed Author’s name (last, first) Title
Place of publication
Publisher’s name
Copyright date
Service, Pamela. Mesopotamia. New York: Benchmark Books,

19. On-line Sources World Wide Web
Author or editor (last name, first)
Name of the web page
Date of posting or revision
Name of institution or organization sponsoring site
Date of access
Address (URL)
“The Forty-Niners.” California History Collection, American Memory, Library of /Congress. 25 Mar <

20. Questions?