Scholastic Honesty Tips

“Scholastic honesty is a set of values and behaviors that promotes personal integrity and good practice in learning and assessment. Scholastic honesty includes doing one’s own work, giving credit for someone else’s ideas or work, abiding by all rules regarding assignments and assessments, and working collaboratively while producing independent work” (UMA Catalog v.6.0, pg.78)

Types of Scholastic Honesty Violations

• Plagiarism: using or attempting to use someone else’s ideas or work, in whole or in part, as one’s own, without citation or other indication that the content is not one’s original ideas or work.

• Collusion: allowing someone to copy one’s own work to use as his/her own, including but not limited to posting or sharing one’s own work on websites outside of the UMA course rooms.

• Duplication: submitting the same work as someone else, including but not limited to copying a discussion post written by another student or turning in copies of assignment worksheets posted on websites outside of the UMA course rooms.

• Cheating: obtaining or attempting to obtain credit for work by dishonest or deceptive means, including but not limited to obtaining work from websites or other informational devices inconsistent with course room expectations as determined in UMA’s sole discretion, or allowing someone other than the officially enrolled student to complete course requirements.

APA Format:

Always include in-text citations and references for any resource that you consult when completing assignments.

For more detailed information regarding APA format, refer to the UMA Style Guide and the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. You can find answers to common questions on the APA Style Blog.

Penalties:

• 1st Scholastic Honesty Violation: a “0” for the assignment in which the first infraction occurred.

• 2nd Scholastic Honesty Violation: a “0” for the course in which the second infraction occurred. The course failure results in the student being required to retake the course.

• 3rd Scholastic Honesty Violation: Student is expelled from UMA.

Note: References in APA format generated in the UMA Virtual Library will be used for reference
verification for grading purposes.