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Q.1.what is academic misconduct ?

Academic misconduct means the behaviour and efforts made by the student intentionally or unintentionally in university’s premises that cause interruption in the environment of the university. Misconduct can be of many types , like physical(behavioural), mechanical, plegiarism ,Cheating -on computer,in exams etc. Already invented thoughts by other brain's are used without acknowledging him. Misconduct is defined in section 4 of Central Queensland University's Statute No 4 (Student Discipline) 1999

Q.2 How is academic misconduct identified by CQU? That is how does the University find out whether or not a student has done something that might be academic misconduct ?

Academic misconduct is usually identified in one or two ways:
A direct report from a staff member.
A person appointed by the university,An assignment marker,or exam invigilator will find out the data of academic misconduct.if it is found that an assignment resembles with someone else or with other source. if there is no reference mentioned ,means a kind of plagiarism . then it would be considered as misconduct.
A report from a copy detection program.
This can be detected through different softwares installed by the university in their systems. There are the programs that will detect automatically if there is any similarity between two different assignments. if it is found then this information will go to the course coordinator. University is having the record system of all the students.so
their system can detect automatically


Q.3.Based on your experience, what could CQU do to reduce student academic misconduct?

There are so many ways to reduce the academic misconduct. Some universities
Uses the help of automatic content detection programs. Manual based method is also In access. Penalities should be given so that student would not try it in future. New softwares are coming in the market. Students sould be given more practical assistance.

Refrences
http://glossary.cqu.edu.au/glossary.jsp?id=784
http://webfuse.cqu.edu.au/Courses/2006/T3/COIS20025/Assessment/Background/Current_System/
http://handbook.cqu.edu.au/Handbook/information.jsp?id=166

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