Breaches of Academic Integrity

Definition: Type of plagiarism that consists of presenting an academic work as “new”, without letting the reader know that it had already been submitted and assessed in the past.

Example: María completed the essay “The Mexican Revolution” for a Spanish subject and handed in the same work for a History subject, without telling her teachers about it.

Definition: It consists of presenting, partially or totally, someone else's work as if it were your own, without giving the corresponding credit to the author. It also involves copying and pasting verbatim large amounts of information from a source, even when the bibliographic reference is included.

Examples:

Rubén did not include citations or references in his final essay.

Clara copied 70% of her work from the internet, she did not express her own point of view in the essay.

Definition: It refers to the exchange of activities and/or academic homework online, which can be reused to obtain personal advantages in the academic field.

Example: Juan uploaded a Chemistry essay to buenastareas.com to be able to download another work for his Physics class. 

Definition: It involves commissioning or hiring the services of a third party to carry out the students' tasks, projects, or academic work. 

You contract-cheat when you deliver original academic work that someone else did on your behalf; regardless of if you make a monetary payment or not. 

This breach of academic integrity involves both the student who “buys” the academic work and the student who “sells” it.

Examples:

Romina delivered a model for her Structure class. However, she did not make the model; her mother and sister did. 

Jaime hired the services of “Tareas en linea” so one of its associates take his Integral Calculus exam. 

Ana hired Homework Dealer to write two chapters of her master's thesis. 

Karina charges 200 MXN to her classmates for doing homework in the subjects of Spanish, English and German. 

Definition: Inventing or creating data and adding it to academic work or research to manipulate the results in favor of the author. 

Inventing quotes or references that do not exist to academic work or research, or including quotes or references that do exist, but were not consulted to obtain a benefit as an author. 

Example: Pedro added bibliographical references to justify the ideas presented in his essay. However, he did not consult nor use these sources.  

Definition: Cheating to obtain or provide the answers to an exam and thereby guarantee an academic advantage, whether with the support of third parties, tools (accordions, sticky notes, photocopies, books, etc.) or technological devices (cell phones, tablets, smart watches, glasses with cameras, headphones or earphones, use of websites, apps, computer, etc.). 

Example: Claudia was caught using a cheat sheet in the Statistics exam, which was not allowed, and she knew about that before taking the exam.

Definition: Distribute the questions and/or answers of an exam using different media (WhatsApp, Facebook, photocopies, etc.). 

Example: Jacobo used WhatsApp to share pictures of the Microbiology exam with his friends. Later, his friends also shared them with more people.

Definition: Corrupting another person to obtain an academic advantage, such as offering money, goods, or services in exchange for a passing grade.

Example: Gonzalo offered the teacher a bottle of Whiskey in exchange for giving him a 70 final average. 

Definition: Alter or modify data, signatures or information, with the intention to obtain an academic advantage. 

Examples:

Gustavo altered his report card to raise his score in Mathematics. 

Gabriela modified her record of social service hours and added more hours to “state” that she had properly complied with this requirement. 

Definition: Misappropriation of information or an exam to obtain an academic advantage. 

Example: Ximena took the Lab keys without permission to finish her experiment and later sent an email to her teacher saying that she had finished her work during class time.

Definition: Agreement between parties to commit a breach of academic integrity. For example, when you agree to lend or borrow homework to copy it, or when you let a friend or peer be part of the team to receive a grade, even though your friend or peer did not work at all. 

Example: Fabricio is allegedly part of team #5, but he never showed up to any of the classes where his team worked on the project. The team agreed to include him because Fabricio is a friend.

Definition: It occurs when a student asks someone else to take an exam, attend a class, or carry out any other academic activity on their behalf to obtain academic advantage. This breach of academic integrity involves both the student who impersonates and the one who is impersonated.  

Example:

Rodolfo asked his friend Francisco to take the TOEFL examination on his behalf so he could fulfill this graduation requirement. 

Rodolfo took the TOEFL exam with Francisco's ID, with the purpose of helping his friend accredit this graduation requirement.