Knowra Academic integrity Academic integrity Academic integrity is the commitment to honesty, trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and courage in learning, teaching, and research. It guides how scholarly work is created, credited, evaluated, and shared.
Plagiarism : Presenting another person’s words, ideas, or work as one’s own without adequate acknowledgment. It violates honesty and fair attribution, even when the source was used unintentionally.
Honor code : A set of rules and commitments governing ethical conduct in an academic community. Honor codes make shared expectations explicit and may assign community members a role in upholding them.
Research misconduct : Serious violations in research, commonly fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism. These violations show how integrity breaches can distort the scholarly record.
Scientific reproducibility : The ability to obtain consistent results when a study is repeated using the same data and methods. Transparent, honest records make it possible to test whether findings can be reproduced.
Citation : A reference identifying the source of borrowed words, ideas, data, or other material. Accurate citations make intellectual debts visible and let claims be checked.
Academic misconduct : A breach of rules or norms governing honest academic work. It names conduct that conflicts with the principles this concept describes.
Data fabrication : Making up research data or results and reporting them as if they were observed. Fabricated evidence directly undermines the honesty of research findings.
Replication crisis : Concern that many published findings, especially in some fields, fail to replicate reliably. It illustrates how weaknesses in research practice can erode confidence in scholarship.
Authorship : Recognition of a person’s substantial contribution to creating a scholarly work. Fair credit requires assigning authorship according to contribution, not status or convenience.
Contract cheating : Submitting work produced by someone else, often paid, as one’s own academic work. It is a deliberate form of misrepresentation that assessment rules must address.
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