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Academic Integrity: The Fool’s Dilemma

2016· article· en· W2868656517 on OpenAlexaffabout
Akbar Qaderi, Alexandre Lucas, Doug Thomson

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal for Digital Society · 2016
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic integrity and plagiarism
Canadian institutionsHumber Polytechnic
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDilemmaAcademic integrityResearch integrityLaw and economicsPolitical scienceEngineering ethicsPhilosophySociologyEngineeringEpistemology

Abstract

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Academic misconduct amongst students is a consistent problem in education.Plagiarism, cheating in exams and the dangers of inappropriate online comments or behaviours can have significant negative effects upon the student [1].Academic misconduct is particularly important because there has been a drastic increase in cases all around the world in recent history [2].The present study took a sample of 121 students from Humber College Lakeshore Campus, Toronto, Canada.This study was interested in exploring students' knowledge of academic policy through testing; participants were split into two groups where one was exposed to written policy and the other to audio-visual policy.The students were then tested on the policy and were compared based on their results.With the exception of one question there was no statistical significance when comparing these two groups.Moreover, in what has commonly been referred to as the fool's dilemma, students who selected incorrect responses actually reported a high level of confidence in their responses.This is troubling because cases of academic dishonesty can be detrimental to academic and professional careers [2][3].It is essential that issues of academic misconduct be understood and studied at an extensive level because issues of academic misconduct can potentially devastate future prospects for students and institutions alike.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.034
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.146
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.994
Threshold uncertainty score0.179

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0340.146
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0140.023
Scholarly communication0.0100.008
Open science0.0020.006
Research integrity0.0060.007
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.360
Teacher spread0.315 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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