TAMIU Student Handbook 2021-2022

Page 39 of 91 2. Cheating – An act of deception in which a student misrepresents that the student has mastered information related to an academic exercise. Examples include, but are not limited to: a. Copying from another student’s test, lab report, computer file, data listing, logs, or any other type of report or academic exercise. b. Using unauthorized materials during a test. c. Consulting a cell phone, text messages, PDAs, programmable calculators with materials that give an advantage over other students during an exam. d. Using crib sheets or other hidden notes in an examination or looking at another student's test paper to copy strategies or answers. e. Having another person supply questions or answers from an examination to be given or in progress. f. Having a person other than oneself (registered for the class) attempt to take or take an examination or any other graded activity. In these cases, all consenting parties to the attempt to gain unfair advantage may be charged with an Honor Pledge violation. g. Deliberately falsifying laboratory results, or submission of samples or findings not legitimately derived in the situation and by the procedures prescribed or allowable. h. Revising and resubmitting a quiz or exam for regrading, without the instructor's knowledge and consent. i. Giving or receiving unauthorized aid on a take-home examination. j. Facilitating academic violation: intentionally or knowingly helping or attempting to help another to violate the Honor Pledge. k. Signing in another student's name on attendance sheets, rosters, Scantrons. l. Submitting in a paper, thesis, lab report, or other academic exercise falsified, invented, or fictitious data or evidence, or deliberate or knowingly concealing or distorting the true nature, origin, or function of such data or evidence. m. Procuring and/or altering without permission from appropriate authority of examinations, papers, lab reports, or other academic exercises, whether discarded or actually used, and either before or after such materials have been handed in to the appropriate recipient. n. Using, buying, selling, stealing, transporting, soliciting, copying or possessing, the contents of an un-administered test, a required assignment or a past test which has, by the professor, not been allowed to be kept by their students. 3. Contract cheating - The form of academic violation where students get academic work completed on their behalf, which they then submit for academic credit as if they had created it themselves. Examples include, but are not limited to: a. Looking to internet sites for the exact question/problem/scenario given to them from their instructors.