Fabrication or Falsification
Fabrication or falsification involves unauthorized creation, alteration or reporting of information in an academic activity. Examples of fabrication or falsification include the following:
- Artificially creating data when it should be collected from an actual experiment
- Unauthorized altering or falsification of data, documents, images, music, art or other work
- Unauthorized omission of data, information, or results in documents, reports and presentations
- Hiding data, results, or information using inappropriate scales, magnification and representation in charts, graphs and other forms of representation
- Falsifying information pertaining to the subjects participating in an experiment
- Falsely recruiting subjects for experiments without revealing the purpose of the experiments or receiving institutional approval for involving subjects in the experiment
- Fabricating sources of information
- Unauthorized impersonation of another person to complete an academic activity
- Unauthorized use of another individual's computer login ID and password
- Unapproved deviation from a predetermined experimental procedure
