Northern Illinois University
Academic Integrity Tutorials

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