scholarly journals Embedding a culture of academic integrity: A two-pronged approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mercedez Hinchcliff ◽  
Pranit Anand
Keyword(s):  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Two Stage ◽  
Business Studies ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Post Assessment ◽  
Initial Results

While universities have instituted use of various forms of technologies to help identify instances of academic integrity compromises, these tools are unable to detect cases where students get someone else to do their academic work for them. This paper discusses a two-stage approach to addressing academic integrity at a postgraduate business studies course where students were engaged in understanding what academic integrity means within their context and explore various forms of unethical behaviours. They were also made aware about various institutional policies and procedures for academic integrity breaches. This was followed with a post-assessment, ad-hoc feedback from students about their submitted work. Although a thorough evaluation is planned at a later stage, this paper shares some initial results about the effectiveness of this approach to countering academic misconduct behaviours. The paper will be of interest to other teaching academics interested in developing a culture of academic integrity.

scholarly journals Varying institutional procedures for dealing with student academic misconduct: A short comparative analysis

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiva Das Sivasubramaniam ◽  
Zeenath Reza Khan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
European Network ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Comparative Manner

Establishing and maintaining academic integrity has always been a focal point amongst all higher education organisations. A few studies have been designed to compare the efficacy of measures/procedures amongst different institutions. Some other attempts were also made to compare the procedures for academic misconduct investigations amongst different institutions about handling potential plagiarisms and/or academic misconducts. The aim of this workshop based investigation was to show the participants, the importance of pro-activeness and practical awareness to establish institutional procedures for handling potential plagiarism and/or academic dishonesty. We wanted to show the inconsistencies in the approaches of conducting academic investigations relating to plagiarism related misconducts. We have carried out a simple Google® search and selected publicly available institutional policies and procedures of five different international universities representing different geographical representations. The comparison has highlighted the approaches to investigate plagiarism or academic misconduct are varied amongst these universities. Some institutional policies have established clearly defined processes, others have vague and ambiguous procedures. The study has highlighted the importance of investigating institutional procedures in a comparative manner. In order to provide some recommendation of institutional policies and procedures, we would work closely with the European Network of Academic Integrity (ENAI), and other international stakeholders to expand this study in a larger scale.

scholarly journals Academic Misconduct within Higher Education in Canada

2006 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia M. Christensen Hughes ◽  
Donald L. McCabe
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
High School ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Perceived Risk ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Canadian Higher Education ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Undergraduate University Students ◽  
Questions And Answers

Despite a plethora of research on the academic misconduct carried out by U.S. high school and undergraduate university students, little research has been done on the academic misconduct of Canadian students. This paper addresses this shortcoming by presenting the results of a study conducted at 11 Canadian higher education institutions between January 2002 and March 2003. We maintain that academic misconduct does indeed occur in Canada – amongst high school, undergraduate and graduate students. Common self-reported behaviours were as follows: working on an assignment with others when asked for individual work, getting questions and answers from someone who has already taken a test, copying a few sentences of material without footnoting, fabricating or falsifying lab data, and receiving unauthorized help on an assignment. Possible factors associated with these behaviours include student maturity, perceptions of what constitutes academic misconduct, faculty assessment and invigilation practices, low perceived risk, ineffective and poorly understood policies and procedures, and a lack of education on academic misconduct. Canadian educational institutions are encouraged to address these issues, beginning with a recommitment to academic integrity.

scholarly journals Can we reliably determine intent in cases of plagiarism?

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon Yorke ◽  
Kathryn Lawson ◽  
Graham McMahon
Keyword(s):  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Graded Response ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Educational Guidance

A review of the literature relating to plagiarism suggests that there is substantial variability in approach between institutions. Some institutions tend to view all occurrences of plagiarism as academic misconduct, whilst others take a more graded view – articulated through policy and procedures that aim to quantify 'levels' of severity. Measured approaches such as these tend to rely on guides to help assess the level of severity, typically encompassing the experience of the student, the amount of material plagiarised, and the likelihood of an intention to deceive. Such judgements lead to a graded response to the student which can result in a wide range of outcomes, from educational guidance and support to expulsion from the institution. However, the intent to deceive can be extremely difficult to establish. This paper will draw on a desktop study of institutional policies and procedures in Australia and other countries to sample and summarise the myriad approaches to the definition and determination of (specifically) intent in plagiarism. Based on the findings of this review, we suggest that the treatment of intent is, at best, rather inconsistent. A series of 'probability factors' are proposed to guide further research in this area.

scholarly journals Academic integrity in first-year nursing students: An intergrative review

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Kolleen Miller-Rosser ◽  
Jann Fielden ◽  
Elizabeth Emmanuel
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
First Year ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Student Cohorts ◽  
Qualitative Literature

Introduction: Studies relating specifically to first-year nursing students’ breaches of academic integrity are not readily identified within the literature. While work has, over the years reported on breaches in academic integrity, it has done so with many disciplines and varied student cohorts. Nevertheless, those that specifically relate to first-year nursing students are sparse. First-year undergraduate nursing students are generally included with the entire student nurse cohort, and not necessarily identified independently. Therefore, the integrative review aimed to discover how or if the incidence of plagiarism/cheating, specifically within first-year undergraduate nursing students, was addressed.Methods: An integrative review of the literature, incorporating quantitative and qualitative literature was undertaken between January 2021 – April 2021 using electronic data bases.Results: Ten studies met the inclusion criteria. From the review, six main themes were extrapolated, (1) blurred boundaries of caring; (2) navigating the ethical highway; (3) factors influencing academic misconduct (4) early intervention (5) academic integrity policies and procedures and (6) inconsistencies amongst academics.Conclusions: The integrative review has identified a shortfall in research relating to how academic integrity has been addressed in first-year nursing students.

scholarly journals STEM Faculty Instructional Data-Use Practices: Informing Teaching Practice and Students’ Reflection on Students’ Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Cindy Lenhart ◽  
Jana Bouwma-Gearhart
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Instructional Technology ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Data Use ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
Stem Faculty ◽  
Standardized Curriculum ◽  
Learning Data

This paper explores the affordances and constraints of STEM faculty members’ instructional data-use practices and how they engage students (or not) in reflection around their own learning data. We found faculty used a wide variety of instructional data-use practices. We also found several constraints that influenced their instructional data-use practices, including perceived lack of time, standardized curriculum and assessments predetermined in scope and sequence, and a perceived lack of confidence and competence in their instructional data-use practices. Novel findings include faculty descriptions of instructional technology that afforded them access to immediate and nuanced instructional data. However, faculty described limited use of instructional data that engaged students in reflecting on their own learning data. We consider implications for faculty’s instructional data-use practices on departmental and institutional policies and procedures, professional development experts, and for faculty themselves.

Lagrangian D’Alembert Modeled Maneuverable Autonomous Non-Holonomic Mobile Robot Using a Closed Loop PD Controller

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Georgiou ◽  
J. Dai
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Robot ◽  
Closed Loop ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Search And Rescue ◽  
Pd Controller ◽  
Modeling And Control ◽  
Holonomic Constraints ◽  
And Control ◽  
Holonomic Mobile Robot ◽  
Initial Results

The motivation for this work is to develop a platform for a self-localization device. Such a platform has many applications for the autonomous maneuverable non-holonomic mobile robot classification, which can be used for search and rescue or for inspection devices where the robot has a desired path to follow but because of an unknown terrain, the device requires the ability to make ad-hoc corrections to its movement to reach its desire path. The mobile robot is modeled using Lagrangian d’Alembert’s principle considering all the possible inertias and forces generated, and are controlled by restraining movement based on the holonomic and non-holonomic constraints of the modeled vehicle. The device is controlled by a PD controller based on the vehicle’s holonomic and non-holonomic constraints. An experiment was setup to verify the modeling and control structure’s functionality and the initial results are promising.

scholarly journals Persepsi dan Perilaku Mahasiswa Keperawatan tentang Integritas Akademik

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Lisa Musharyanti ◽  
Gandes Retno Rahayu ◽  
Yayi Suryo Prabandari
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Clinical Skills ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Nursing School ◽  
Professional Behavior ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Behavior

Background: Besides knowledge and clinical skills, nursing students should have professional behavior as an essential component of competences as a side of knowledge and clinical skills. One aspect of professionalism is academic integrity. Lecturer should know about students’ perception of academic integrity and behavior, to make a good way to detect and prevent the deviant behavior. The objective of this study is to describe nursing students’ perception and behavior on academic integrity.Method: Survey was conducted in a nursing school in Yogyakarta. The subject were 230 nursing students who were taken by proportionate stratified random sampling. The data were analyzed with descriptive analysis.Results: There were many deviant or unacceptable behaviors which were not considered as an academic misconduct (by 5.2%-61.3% students). Peer students’ percentage who had done an academic misconduct with 10 of the highest percentage was 50%-82.2% and the behavior ever done by students was 28.7%-68.7%. The intention to do the behavior in the future was 3-38.7%.Conclusion: Perceptions of nursing students on academic integrity varied widely. Many of the actual behaviors were not considered as academic misconduct. Nursing students had different opinions about the behavior that violated academic integrity. Students’ perceptions about the behavior and the behavior of a peer friend were in accordance with the students’ own behavior. Therefore, there is a need for a shared perception between institutions and students about behaviors that violate academic integrity.

Understanding Institutional Policies and Procedures

2021 ◽  
pp. 25-29
Author(s):  
Robert S. Fleming ◽  
Michelle Kowalsky
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Policies And Procedures

Assessing and Addressing Academic Integrity at a Doctoral Extensive Institution

NASPA Journal ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie L Zelna ◽  
Marilee J Bresciani
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Educational Interventions ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Research I Institution ◽  
The University

Based on concerns regarding current trends in higher education, one Research I institution set out to measure knowledge, attitudes, behavior, and perceptions related to academic misconduct. Through a self-report survey, trends specific to the university’s community as well as educational interventions were identified to further educate the campus community about academic integrity in order to reduce academic misconduct.

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