Academic Integrity & Performance

Academic Integrity And Performance

by Mohd Ikhsan Bin Md.Raus, Encik Roslan Bin Jamaluddin and Encik Faizal Azrul Azman Bin Mohamed

( Modul 7 )

PART 1 

 Plagiarism. What is plagiarism? Plagiarism is an act or instance, using or copy the ideas of another author without authorization or didn't state any of that as their reference. It's more like pretending that's their own idea.

This attitude can not be exist in the students, it will effect student's marks for their task and also, they will not get any marks for that and get a punishment. For example, they must repeat the paper or disciplinary action.

HOW TO PREVENT PLAGIARISM?

• Try to paraphrase 
• Do the reference at the end of the pages

Paraphrasing

• Use the synonym words but still have the same meaning, means that it will not change the original meaning of the sentence.
• Change it active to passive or passive to active.

Steps to paraphrase :

Referencing

• State a book or article that you use do to your task with the citation of authorities at the reference page ( at the end of the pages )
• Look for APA 6th formatting style.
• Check for plagiarism before submit the task to the lecturer.

How to referencing?

•   In-text Citation

Research by Wegender and Petty ( 1994 ) supports....

Jones ( 1998 ) found students often had difficulty using APA Style.

• Reference List

Wegender, D.T & Petty, R.E ( 1994 ). Mood management across affective states. The hedonic contingency hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 66, 1048

Jones, T.J (1998 ), Friendship quality and social development. Current Directions Psychological Science, 11 , 7-10

Paraphrasing Homework :

- Students must be given freedom to use their mobile phone in the classroom. It can be used as learning tool for the students to search for extra notes or explaination

Answer :
= Cell phone can be used as a researched for the students to search more information and details if they have be given an opportunity to use it in the classroom.

PART 2 ( PERFORMANCE )

ICGPA - Integrated Cumulative Grade Point Average

CGPA - Cumulative Grade Point Average

GPA - Grade Point Average

GPA

• Refers to the calculated average of the letter grades a student get in each semester following a 0 to 4.0 scale.

CGPA

• Refers to the overall GPA, which included dividing the number of quality points that the student get in all courses attempted by the total in credit hours.

ICGPA

• Student achievement in mastering 8 dominant learning outcomes
• Student achievement for their program of learning outcomes can be seen by using"SpiderWeb "

GPA CALCULATION

EXAMINATION RESULTS

HOW TO CALCULATE GPA ?

ICGPA:

•  CREDIT HOUR × POINT = ________       
•  GPA = TOTAL POINT EARN ÷ CREDIT HOUR
•            ICGPA = TOTAL POINT BOTH SEM (+) ÷ CREDIT HOUR (SEM 1 / SEM 2) (+)

GPA Worksheet 

CGPA Worksheet

Exercise :