Rubric for Decision-Making and Reporting

Scholarly Integrity Issues & Lack of Scholarly Foundation in Writing

For the GCAP policy see:

Section A:To be completed by the Course Instructor

Instructor Name:

Student Name:

Course Name and Number:

Semester:

Assignment Name and Number:

Please provide clear excerpts from the student’s work to support each any of the applicable issues below. In case, please also indicate if you consider this to be a minor example (e.g., only a few sentences) or a substantive example (e.g., extensive examples).

Plagiarism

  1. Failure to cite sources
  1. Failure to properly paraphrase
  1. Submission of previous coursework
  1. Copying an entire paper

Other Scholarly Integrity Issues

  1. Misuse of secondary sources
  1. Padding of reference list

Scholarly Foundation in Writing

  1. 10-12 page paper: Failure to incorporate at least 10 recent peer reviewed references (last 6 years)
  1. 15-20 page paper: Failure to incorporate at least 15 recent peer reviewed references(last 6 years)

Section B:To be completed by the Course Coordination and forwarded to the Program Director

Plagiarism

The following are considered examples of plagiarism and must be forwarded to the program director to be dealt with according to the Athabasca University plagiarism policies. Penalties will be applied based on those policies.

  1. Failure to cite sources
  2. Failure to properly paraphrase
  3. Submission of previous coursework
  4. Copying an entire paper

Other Scholarly Integrity Issues

After consultation to establish whether this is a first, second, or third offense in the MC program, please rate the student’s behaviour for each of the scholarly integrity issues identified by the course instructor. Highlight the appropriate level on the rubrics below.

First offense + Substantive (e.g. extensive examples) / Second offense + Minor (e.g., only a few sentences) / Second offense + Substantive (e.g. extensive examples) / Third offense
  1. Misuse of secondary sources
/ Minimum of 5% / Minimum of 10% / Minimum of 15% / “0” on paper
  1. Padding reference list
/ Minimum of 5% / Minimum of 10% / Minimum of 15% / Minimum of 15%

Scholarly Foundation in Writing

After consultation to establish whether this is a first, second, or third offense in the MC program, please rate the student’s behaviour the scholarly foundation in writing issues identified by the course instructor. Highlight the appropriate level on the rubrics below.

First offense + 80% / First offense + 30 – 70% / First offense + 10 – 20% / First offense + none / Second offense + 60% / Second offense + 30 – 50% / Second offense None – 20% / Third offense
  1. 10-12 page paper:10 required
  2. 15-20 page paper:15 required
/ Warning only / 5% / 10% / “0” on paper / 10% / 20% / “0” on paper / “0” on paper

Consequence Assigned

Please indicate the cumulative deduction or other penalty to be applied to the student as a result of the scholarly integrity or scholarly foundation in writing issues. Penalties for plagiarism will be communicated by the program director.

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Scholarly Integrity Rubric & Report