A student takes a course in “Teams and Leadership” and a second course in “Teams in Business.” Both courses ask the student to reflect upon and write a paper about a team situation. The student writes on one team situation, changes the title, and submits the paper to both courses. What type of academic dishonesty is this?

(Benson, L., Rodier, K., Enström, R., & Bocatto, E. (2019). Developing a university-wide academic integrity E-learning tutorial: A Canadian case. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 15(1). doi:10.1007/s40979-019-0045-1)

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A student takes a course in “Teams and Leadership” and a second course in “Teams in Business.” Both courses ask the student to reflect upon and write a paper about a team situation. The student writes on one team situation, changes the title, and submits the paper to both courses. What type of academic dishonesty is this?

(Benson, L., Rodier, K., Enström, R., & Bocatto, E. (2019). Developing a university-wide academic integrity E-learning tutorial: A Canadian case. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 15(1). doi:10.1007/s40979-019-0045-1)

BlackTom AI · Accepted Answer

Question restatement: A student in two courses, 'Teams and Leadership' and 'Teams in Business', writes about a single team situation, submits the same or very similar paper to both courses with the title changed, and this is cited as academic dishonesty. Options provided: plagiarism, fabrication and falsification, cheating, self-plagiarism, there is no academic dishonesty because it was the student’s own work.

Option 1: plagiarism. This generally involves presenting someone else’s ideas or work as your own without proper attribution. In this scenario, the student is using their own prior work, not someone else’s, so this option mischaracterizes the violation.

Option 2: fabrication and falsification. Fabrication is making up data or findings; falsification is altering data or results. The issue here is not creating or altering data, but reusing existing work, so this option does not apply.

Option 3: cheating. Cheating is a broad category that includes dishonest behavior in academics, such as cheating on exams or accessing unauthorized resources. Reusing one’s own prior work across courses is more specifically categorized as self-plagiarism rather than cheating, though some definitions might view it as a form of cheating. However, this option does not pinpoint the precise term used in academic integrity discussions for this action.

Option 4: self-plagiarism. This term describes presenting one’s own previously submitted work as if it were new, or submitting substantially the same work to multiple courses without proper disclosure or permission. In this case, the student reused the same team situation paper across two courses with only a title change, which fits the definition of self-plagiarism.

Option 5: there is no academic dishonesty because it was the student’s own work. This is inaccurate because academic honesty policies typically require novelty or proper attribution/permission when reusing one’s own prior work across courses. Submitting the same or substantially similar work to multiple courses without disclosure is generally considered a violation.

Synthesis: The core issue is the reuse of one’s own previously submitted work across courses without appropriate acknowledgment or permission, which aligns with the concept of self-plagiarism. The other options either describe different misconduct (plagiarism of others’ work, fabrication/falsification) or fail to identify the specific violation, or wrongly claim no dishonesty occurred.

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