You may have been able to get away with cheating on a spelling test in elementary school or use an essay from a friend for English class in high school, but at ASU West these such actions are not tolerated. As soon as you become a student of ASU you are required to follow the code of conduct. Meaning that you are responsible to know the policy of Academic Integrity and must follow it through your entire involvement as a student at ASU.
A great way to keep students from cheating while at ASU is to inform them of the consequences and seriousness of the Academic Integrity policy. These consequences can either be short term or long term depending on the severity of the offence. The penalty may vary from redoing and assignment, failing the course or receive and XE meaning- failure due to academic dishonesty. If and XE appears on your transcript it hinders you from various opportunities. As stated in the Academic Integrity video by Leslie Shell and Joe Bunker “ While you are in college a designation of XE would keep you from participating in extracurricular activities like student clubs” and “The University views the XE grade designation very seriously. Keep in mind that such a designation on your transcript may only be removed by petition and on a decision from the dean or director of your program.” So as you can see from the quotes stated by Leslie and Joe cheating is not permitted at all at ASU and if you are caught it will stay with you throughout all the years you decide to attend college.
There have been many studies been done to prove that cheating doesn’t pay off and only hurts you at the high school level and the university level. One of these studies was recently reported in the book, Psychology of Academic Cheating, stated that 67 percent of all high school students that had no experience cheating at the high school level never cheated at the university level. So by practicing good academic integrity at a young age it can help you through your university education and even later on in life.
Academic integrity is all about having respect for yourself. Cheating gets no one anywhere in life and only impairs them from their ability to be a better person in the long run. So if an individual wants to be a successful student at ASU they need to stay academically honest and follow the Academic Integrity policy.
5 comments:
Cheating at ASU is definitely not worthit. I would never want to get kicked out of school for cheating and/or ruin my reputation. I just don't think about cheating when it comes to tests, its that easy.
Informing people of the consequences is a good way to urge people not to cheat. it will show many students that the chances would not be worth it.
I think that when students know the consequences that they won't even think about cheating! They are so severe, but they work! It's not worth it to cheat. You'll just ruin everything for yourself in the long run.
I completely agree. Getting an F or a Withdrawl is ten times better than getting kicked out of your school. People do not realize the consequences and constantly just think in the present.
P.S. Love the cheating picture!
ASU informs students very well that cheating has severe consequences. Statistics or not, everyone has at least cheated once on something. However, at a university level, it's just not worth it. Like Lindsay stated, "It's not worth it to cheat". I mean, we have came this far in our education, why should we cheat?
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