Week 4.6 Flashcards
Case Study 3: Dr M, program coordinator, was contacted mid-semester by student E’s mother who wanted to know whether her 17 year old son has been attending class [as he seemed to be always at home] and what grades he had received in the previous semester [he had indicated to her that the grades had not been released yet]
Which of the following were breached:
- Respecting others
- Behaving professionally
- Avoiding conflict of interest
- Using University resources
- Recognising academic freedom
Behaving professionally and Avoiding conflict of interest.
Case Study 4: Professor T was HoD Psychology at a large public university and was unhappy with the University financial support for the suite of University Psychology programs [Undergraduate, Honours, and Masters by coursework]. Professor T remained employed as the HoD while he worked with a consortium to develop a private University focusing solely on psychology teaching
Which of the following were breached:
- Respecting others
- Behaving professionally
- Avoiding conflict of interest
- Using University resources
- Recognising academic freedom
Behaving professionally, Avoiding conflict of interest and Using University resources.
Types of student misconduct (3)
There are three types of misconduct:
1) High-risk misconduct
2) General misconduct
3) Academic misconduct
High-risk misconduct
High-risk misconduct refers to concerns that a student may have threatened the safety of the University or of any person
General misconduct (9)
General misconductrefers to concerns that a student may have:
- failed to comply with a reasonable request from a member of staff
- affected the reputation of the University
- discriminated against another person
- harassed or intimidated or bullied another person
- caused property damage or committed theft
- improperly used University facilities
- hacked or inappropriately accessed computer records
- breached copyright
- encouraged other students to behave inappropriately
Academic misconduct (6)
Academic misconductrefers to concerns that a student may have cheated by:
- taking notes or other unauthorised materials into an examination
- plagiarising the work of another person or student
- deliberately letting their work be used by another student
- impersonating another student, or allowing themselves to be impersonated
- breaching the research code
- somehow misleading the teacher responsible for an assessment task
Case Study 1: It has been a tradition over the past three years that someone pulls a fire alarm 20 minutes into the third year Psychology exam. Due to mandatory evacuation procedures, the exam is cancelled, all attempts are voided and the exam is postponed until the deferred exam period
The type of misconduct is:
- High-risk misconduct
- General misconduct
- Academic misconduct
High-risk misconduct
Case Study 2: Student PE stood up in the middle of a first year Psychology lecture and complained that Lecturer J was using mind-control techniques to send hateful messages to him. When asked to be seated he refused and continued to loudly complain. When asked to leave he refused and then claimed Lecturer J was being discriminating on racial grounds. Lecturer J had to abandon the class
The type of misconduct is:
- High-risk misconduct
- General misconduct
- Academic misconduct
General misconduct
- failed to comply with a reasonable request from a member of staff
Case Study 3: Lecturer M reported two students [A and B] to a disciplinary committee when she detected the same passages of text in both of their assignments. At the subsequent hearing, the committee was shown clear evidence that this was the case. At his hearing, Student A indicated that in other courses students were encouraged to work in teams on all of their assignments and this was simply a product of working closely with another student
The type of misconduct is:
- High-risk misconduct
- General misconduct
- Academic misconduct
Academic misconduct
- plagiarising the work of another person or student
- deliberately letting their work be used by another student