Academic dishonesty

Academic dishonesty is conduct that violates rules or standards governing scholarly work and assessment, including cheating, plagiarism, fabrication, and unauthorized collaboration.

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Plagiarism: Presenting another person's words, ideas, or work as one's own without proper acknowledgment. It is a distinct form of academic dishonesty centered on misattributed authorship.
Academic integrity policy: An institution's rules and procedures for promoting honest academic work and addressing misconduct. Policies define prohibited conduct and set the process for resolving allegations.
Contract cheating: Submitting work produced by another person or service as one's own. It is a commercial form of misrepresentation that can be difficult to detect through text matching.
Academic probation: A formal warning status that requires a student to meet specified academic conditions to remain enrolled or progress. Some institutions use probation as a disciplinary or corrective response to misconduct.
Cheating: Using deception or prohibited assistance to gain an unfair advantage in an assessment or competition. It covers rule-breaking during assessments, including unauthorized aids and answer sharing.
Plagiarism detection: Methods for identifying possible unattributed borrowing by comparing texts or examining sources. Text-matching tools can flag passages for review, but do not by themselves establish intent or guilt.
Exam cheating: Breaking assessment rules to gain an unfair advantage during an examination. It illustrates misconduct under time-limited, supervised assessment conditions.
Academic dismissal: Removal of a student from an educational institution, often for serious or repeated violations. Severe or repeated dishonesty can lead to loss of enrollment.
Research misconduct: Serious violations of standards in proposing, conducting, reviewing, or reporting research. It extends dishonesty beyond coursework to the production and reporting of research.
Academic misconduct investigation: A formal process for assessing evidence and determining whether academic rules were violated. Investigations connect an allegation to evidence and a decision under institutional rules.