Academic Integrity is “the courage to be honest, respectful, responsible, fair and trustworthy, even when it is difficult to do so”
https://www.academicintegrity.org/fundamental-values/
‘Moral obligation supply chain’
- Instructors – Design fair and honest assessments
- Students – Fairly and honestly demonstrate learning
- Instructors – Fairly and honestly assess student learning
- Institution – Certify student’s knowledge and abilities
Students are more likely to cheat when:
- There are opportunities
- They are in a heightened state of stress and pressure
- The class or assessment rewards performance, not mastery
- The class or assessment reinforces extrinsic, not intrinsic, goals
- Instruction is (perceived to be) poor
- When it’s less likely that there will be costs to cheating
Tricia Bertram Gallant (2017) Academic Integrity as a Teaching & Learning Issue: From Theory to Practice, Theory Into Practice, 56:2, 88-94, DOI: 10.1080/00405841.2017.1308173
Use the following three methods to encourage academic integrity in remote and online courses:
- Inform & Educate
- Make information about academic integrity useful and easy to find
- Have students affirm academic integrity
- Assess students’ understanding of academic integrity
- Engage students in discussion and reflection about academic integrity
- Prevent & Protect
- Make assessment meaningful and authentic to real applications
- Have formative quizzes / exams as a warm up to summative versions (to develop mastery)
- In exams, randomize question sequence and question answers
- Look at CluskeyJr., G.R., Ehlen, C.R., & Raiborn, M.H. (2011). Thwarting online exam cheating without proctor supervision. Journal of Academic and Business Ethics, 4, 1-7. for more
- Use a similarity-detection tool for any submitted written work
- Practice & Support
- Model integrity to your students (inc. citing your sources and thinking about assessment design
- Follow proper process for reporting academic misconduct
Journal Articles
- Academic Integrity as a Teaching & Learning Issue: From Theory to Practice Tricia Bertram Gallant
- Thwarting online exam cheating without proctor supervision G. R. Cluskey Jr., Craig R. Ehlen, Mitchell H. Raiborn