Academic Misrepresentation
Academic misrepresentation may be defined in any of the following ways:
- Plagiarism means misrepresenting as your own work something done by another.
- Collaborative effort is where two or more students jointly prepare and submit the same or substantially similar papers as individual efforts without the specific consent of the instructor. All assignments, unless specifically indicated otherwise, are to be completed by the individual student.
- Dual submission means submitting the same paper or substantially similar papers to meet the requirements of more than one course without the prior approval of all instructors concerned.
- Cheating means using any answers/content from another student without the knowledge and consent of the instructor.
When it has been determined by the instructor that a student has academically misrepresented his/her work in any assignment/test, the student will not receive credit for the work and will be given the mark of zero for the assignment and have a conference with an administrator to discuss possible disciplinary action. There will be no makeup for this mark.
At Park Center it is expected that all work submitted for credit in any class must be the original work of the student submitting it. Academic dishonesty is defined as any act taken to obtain credit for work that is not your own, and includes, but is not limited to the following:
- Submitting another student's assignment, homework, report, quiz or test as one's own.
- Bringing in and/or using forbidden material during a quiz or test.
- Copying from another student's computer file or written work, or allowing another student to copy your computer file or written work.
- Participating in the transferring of confidential information, e.g. copies of and/or answers for a quiz or test.
- Plagiarizing, i.e. presenting material borrowed or copied from another source and then presenting it as one's own without properly acknowledging the original source. An example of plagiarism would be copying or paraphrasing from a source such as Cliff's Notes without citing the source.
Teachers who suspect cheating or plagiarism should:
- Confiscate papers from or copy computer files of students suspected of cheating or plagiarizing.
- Confer with an administrator to discuss the matter and decide upon a course of action.
Consequences for a student found guilty of cheating or plagiarism
- A parent conference will be held with the teacher and administrator
- Students will receive a zero for assignments or tests that were copied, with no chance of making up the lost credit.
- Students who allow their assignments or tests to be copied will receive the same consequences as students guilty of copying them.
- Students copying computer files are also in violation of the Acceptable User Policy for Computers, and will be dealt with accordingly.