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Academic Integrity 6 Responses: Is a Violation

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You're right!

This is an example of academic dishonesty because it violates the core values of academic integrity:

  • Fairness - it is not fair for your classmates (other than your friend) to have to complete the entire exam while you only did half of the questions
  • Honesty - are you really going to tell the instructor that you didn't complete the exam yourself?
  • Responsibility - you did not responsibly complete the exam AND you enabled your friend to also commit academic dishonesty

Also consider that your friend may not be answering the questions correctly and/or completely. You are placing your trust in a fallible, subjective source of information, and you are trusting that your friend worked hard on answering their half of the questions. You are also cheating yourself of the learning opportunity to test your grasp of half of the material covered in the course so far.  How will you do in the rest of the course if you don't know which content you need to learn better?

If your name is the only name on an assignment/test, then you should have done all of the work. 

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