Academic Integrity Quiz Contest 2021

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Academic Integrity Day 2021

Answer the multiple choice questions and submit.

Email *

Full Name (in Capital Letter for Certificate) *

Enter Muscat College Student ID *

What does Academic Integrity mean? *

10 points

That you have adopted standards that guide your academic work

That you will earn your degree with honest effort, and it will be a true accomplishment reflecting years of hard work and genuine learning

That you have developed successful academic skills and learned to credit the author of any ideas you quote, paraphrase, or use as a source of information

All of the above

Which of the following is not an example of plagiarism? *

10 points

Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote

Borrowing an existing idea and presenting it as a new idea

Translating others' written work into another language without citation

Providing the full source for a quotation

Which of the following requires proper citation? *

5 points

When I include my own ideas that are unique to the assignment I am writing.

When I refer to my own research papers that I have previously written.

To paraphrase properly, you need to: *

10 points

Change a few words and cite it to make it your own

Put quotation marks around the text and cite it

Use only the idea from the text without citing it

Summarize the text in your own words and cite it

Misbah was very worried about the Similarity check on Canvas and being penalised for plagiarism in her essay. She uploaded her assignment prior to submission through the ‘Similarity Checking Space’ on the assignment page on Canvas. Misbah received a high score (45%) on her work, suggesting that her work matched a lot of existing material. However, she made sure that all quotations had quotation marks, cited in the text and had full reference details at the end of the assignment. Has she committed academic misconduct? *

10 points

Yes

One of your courses has a series of online quizzes which students have to pass before going on to the next stage of the course. You normally do the quizzes together. Would this be considered academic misconduct? *

5 points

Yes

Aaisha gets an email to her university email address offering her help with her coursework. She contacts the person that sent it and they give her a price and say that they can support her in her studies. She sends them details of the assignment she has to do, pays, and someone sends her back completed work which she then submits. Has she committed academic misconduct? *

10 points

Yes

Which of the following requires proper citation? *

5 points

When using information from crowd-sourced sources, like Wikipedia, because they are in the public domain.

When using information that is considered common knowledge or widely accessible (for example: most of the Earth's surface is water)

Academic misconduct is any action or attempted action that may result in creating an unfair academic advantage for oneself or an unfair academic advantage or disadvantage for any other member or members of the academic community? *

5 points

True

False

I want to use a photograph taken by someone else in my project. If I use a graphics program to change the photograph I do not need to seek permission from the original creator. *

5 points

True

False

Turnitin software checks your work for: *

10 points

spelling and grammar errors

plagiarism

any text you have written that matches text from other sources

Which of the following (fictitious) examples does not display academic integrity? *

10 points

The Millstone Fire put eighty-seven people out of their homes

According to Erin Lam (2001), fish swim much farther in clean water (28).

"Happiness and chocolate are interdependent" (Plat, 1956).

Dag Feruzal (1999) writes, "It's only in spring ... that you find the best snowdrops" (187).

What are the three most common forms of academic misconduct? *

5 points

Plagiarism, referencing and piracy

Collusion, contract cheating and plagiarism

Bribery, contract cheating and discussing ideas with fellow students

Other:

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