What is Academic DishonestyDishonesty in any spare of life is counted as a bad thing. Teachers are considered examples for students to lead their lives in a better way. Students sometimes follow their teachers blindly that’s why academic dishonesty may create a lot of problems socially.

Academic Dishonesty comprises any conscious/unconscious venture to distort, manufacture or overall mess with information, data, records, or whatever viable material that is pertinent to the learner’s cooperation in any course, research facility, or other scholarly practice or capacity.

Types of Academic dishonesty:

Here we explain each type of academic dishonesty concerning its nature.

Plagiarism:

  • It is copying or reproduction of others’ work or ideas without referencing her/his work.
  • There are different reasons for plagiarising other people’s work.
  • Such as, they want to get promoted quickly by publishing research papers or they want to earn more by publishing more research papers as awards and take advantage of some people’s lower position in the academic field

Professional Misconduct:

  • Giving some students extra grades by not properly checking papers, quizzes or assignments.
  • It also includes not teaching the complete or most of the course outline.
  • Some people also don’t teach full class time and total credit hours which is necessary to complete the course with proper details.
  • It also includes overburdening students with assignments and tests without even giving them proper reminders for it.

Conning/Cheating:

  • Utilizing or endeavouring to utilize unapproved materials within any scholarly practice or having another person do work for you.
  • Illustrations of duping incorporate taking a gander at an alternate learner’s paper throughout a test, bringing a response sheet to a test, acquiring a duplicate of a test preceding the test date or submitting homework acquired from an alternate understudy.
  • Use cheat sheets in examinations and get better grades.
  • Some students get undue favour just because they are teachers’ favourites.

Manufacture/Fabrication:

  • Designing or distorting data is called fabrication.
  • Researchers sometimes report the data which is not the actual result of the experiments.
  • They fabricate it to show the worth of their method.
  • It is a common practice in countries with less moral and academic values especially in third-world or under progress countries.
  • Just because of no checks and balances and scrutiny everyone here and there is publishing articles and getting due benefits.

Encouraging scholastic unscrupulousness:

  • It is helping someone to deceive in a test or exam.
  • This includes giving someone your homework or assignment to copy/duplicate your work to solve the exercise with your help.
  • Nowadays people get handsome amounts of monetary benefits for doing such things. These services are now getting promoted and more and more people are turning to it.

Copyright infringement:

  • It is a violation of others’ copyright to utilize the words or ideas of other scholars without giving proper reference to their work.
  • You show it that they are your plans or ideas.
  • This may include copying all work or rephrasing others’ ideas in your own words, to abridging work without recognizing the source.

 Misrepresentation:

  • Submitting homework or assignments from one class to another class.
  • This may include using your previous published work by not adding further value and publishing it again to increase the number of published papers

 Misleading and deception:

  • Lying about your work, achievements and records to misguide people to think great about you.
  • Telling falsely someone about your marks and making fake letters of skills and qualifications is one very common form of academic dishonesty.
  • It happens when we start giving degrees more value than skills. People are forced to get degrees despite they have good skills. In a society when such practices prevail then misleading and deception peaks.

Electronic:

  • Using fake emails of other people to influence someone to get undue benefits.
  • It is willfully breaking into someone else computer to make an account on that system to access private documents and use them to get benefits.
  • It also includes intentionally spreading infection in someone’s computer with a

Bribery:

  • Giving assignments solutions to students or exam test questions to students for money.
  • Sometimes it also includes giving personal tuition to students in the form of providing services to provide them with exam answer questions or relaxing them in assignments by providing clear hints etc.

Impersonation:

  • When some teacher keeps in mind some student’s identity to give him/her extra favour in exams or assignments is an act of impersonation.
  • Especially some teachers like girls of a bold nature in class and some female teachers like handsome boys in class and give them undue Favors in exams.

Sabotage:

  • Sometimes your competitors will try to disrupt your experiments by destroying your equipment.
  • They also try to engage you in useless work or additional work in the department so that you cannot concentrate on your work.
  • Their final goal is to stop you from completing your research work successfully.

Conclusion:

Academic dishonesty is an undeniable fact of the academic community. It has very bad impact on the teachers as well as on the students. There should be some preventive measures and checks and balances to keep people away from this curse. Especially there should be very clear punishments for the deeds so that people do think before doing any sort of academic dishonesty.