Integrity

Attendance Regulations

1. It is the responsibility of the student to attend the assigned XXXX499 seminar conducted by the supervisor.
2. The project is submitted within a single semester of registration. Otherwise, all students in the project cohort will be awarded a grade of IW.
3. Students who have (IW) grade in the project will have to re-register in order to submit their project and to be examined. Re-registering on the project will follow the normal registration procedure and will be allowed to complete their project within two semesters excluding the summer session.
4. Supervisors are required to submit copies of all records of supervision to the Chairperson immediately on completion of the XXXX499 seminar.

Academic Misconduct

In a small number of cases there are students who are tempted to gain an unfair advantage on their undergraduate projects. This behavior is considered unacceptable. There are at least six types of academic misconduct, which Ahlia University acknowledges and wishes to prevent: (1) plagiarism; (2) data falsification; (3) use of third-parties (tacit personation) or cheat-ware sites; (4) free-riding collusion; (5) recyling collusion; and (6) active personation.

1. Plagiarism includes the practice of presenting ideas, words, data, diagrams, illustrations or other output as original pieces of work or without proper acknowledgment (including appropriate identification and referencing) of the source.
2. Data Falsification is an act involving willful creation of false data as in students in the project filling out questionnaires themselves rather than distributing them and soliciting legimate feedback from the population or changing data collected on received questionnaires
3. Use of third parties (tacit personation) or cheat ware sites which, typically for a fee, write all or part of a manuscript or design a model that students in the project then present as their own original work. (However, cohorts may use a professional proofreading service provided that they declare use of such a service.) When third parties prepare academic work-product for one (or more) cohort members, a form of tacit personation results.
4. Free riding collusion involves one student (or more) in the project cohort doing work on behalf of another who in fact makes no contribution to the project. In free riding collusion both the student(s) not doing any work as well as the other(s) doing work at the behest of the former, who passes such work off as his/her own are liable.
5. Recycling collusion involves one student (or more) in the project cohort enlisting outside-the cohort support of one student (or more) whose previously submitted academic work product is fobbed off as being the unique intellectual work product of those concerned conspiring project cohort members.
6. Active Personation occurs when one (or more) students outside the cohort subsitute for one (or more) students in the project cohort proffering false identities at the time of project defense (in the admittedly unlikely scenario of the project supervisor not remembering the physical appearance of each member of the cohort).

In order to address the issue of academic dishonesty, the following procedures will be followed for

The project:

1. Oral examination will be used to detect free riding and recycling collusion and use of third parties (tacit personation)/cheat ware sites
2. Students will need to submit evidence of questionnaire integrity to the Supervisor e.g. screenshots of emails contain on-line questioner response.
3. Commonality should not exceed 20% of text (in phrases of 6 or more matching words), excluding the reference list. Supervisors will need to manually peruse highlighted text in TURNITIN to verify absence of plagiarism even where commonality is below 20%.
4. Cases where academic dishonesty has been detected will be referred to the Disciplinary Committee of the University, and penalties imposed if the allegations are upheld.
5. All members of the cohort will have to submit personal indentification documentation to prove who they are before undergoing defense of research to defeat