1. Bad luck or bad practice?
Board of Examiners, Friday , Aula B 14.00
Bad luck or bad practice?

2. What the Board plans to do in the session
This includes acknowledging
Promote Academic Integrity at the ISS
Discuss what constitutes sloppy referencing/plagiarism
Help students to write a good essay which does not have these problems
the work of others
Your own previous work
Collaboration
Correct reporting results of research
Honesty in Examinations
Respecting other people’s ideas
Developing your own arguments and writing in a clear and focused manner

3. Board of Examiners – Mandate and Process
Responsibility for the assessment procedures including sloppy referencing/plagiarism
Process
Asks examiners to identify problems of academic integrity in the assignments
Studies the reports
Has meetings with the students before penalties are applied.
Notes are sent to the students on the outcomes and penalties.
Checks the returned scripts and finalizes the grades

4. Why are we here?
A rough number of cases normally per calendar year – 6-10
Over 40 cases just for Term I assignments
In all the courses:
2101
3103
4140
4141
4142
4143
4144

5. Some Reasons given sloppy referencing/plagiarism
Did not know it was wrong
First time that we are actually putting what we learned on plagiarism into practice
Time pressure and I had to deliver
Pressure to perform well and get good grades
The author expressed exactly what I meant but in better language
We worked as a group
I didn’t mean to cheat
I was unwell and my friend helped
I knew it was wrong but…
Self-plagiarism – what’s the problem – it is my own work!!

6. The Board of Examiners is not interested in policing or penalizing students !!

7. Declaration Scientific Integrity -ISS
“I hereby declare my intention to uphold the ethos of good scientific research and to apply in all my scientific activities the principles described in The Netherlands Code of Conduct for Scientific*:
Scrupulousness, Reliability, Verifiability, Impartiality and Independence
I will apply these principles in my own work and will endeavor to promote these principles among other scientists and in particular among my direct colleagues”
* Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), 2012