scholarly journals Introduction of Academic Honesty as a Necessary Prerequisite and an Important Component of Quality Education for Future Economists

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-95
Author(s):  
Viktoriia Zinchenko ◽  
Svitlana Ostapenko ◽  
Hannah Udovichenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Marketing Research ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Academic Honesty ◽  
Survey Analysis

The article deals with: academic honesty as an important component of higher education as a social institution; legislative changes aimed at promoting academic integrity in higher education institutions of Ukraine; the most successful European practices in combating and preventing academic misconduct, and with measures undertaken internationally by the Ukrainian academic community to address this important issue. Additionally, the overview of all-Ukrainian statistics on academic dishonesty of students and results of a survey on this problem of freshmen of economic specialties of Donetsk National University of Economics and Trade named after Mykhailo Tugan-Baranovsky are provided; the ways of introduction of academic honesty in the life of the university and development of academic culture are presented; interesting academic materials on the outlined problem for work in training future economists the course of «Academіс Writing» are offered. The authors apply the following scientific methods: theoretical – analysis and synthesis, analogy and thought experiment; practical – analysis of scientific literature on the basis of which conclusions are grounded. The main scientific results are obtained through the use of a marketing research method, including a survey, analysis of the data obtained in order to find out the most acute causes of academic fraud, violations of academic culture and honesty of economic specialities students’ integrity. The authors prove that in order to overcome academic dishonesty, it is necessary to address the human dignity of each student, in addition to the formation of appropriate competencies and skills.

scholarly journals CONCEPTUAL BASES OF ACADEMIC HONESTY FORMATION AT TEACHERS TRAINING

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Sopova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Educational Environment ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Academic Honesty

This paper highlights academic integrity in the system of the future teacher professional training; the essence of the academic honesty concept, its contents in relation to the formation of personal and professional characteristics of a competent specialist is researched; the attitude to the academic dishonesty manifestations among the students of the specialty “Preschool education” is determined. Author examines the growing cases of violations of the academic integrity principles in higher education. The European experience in shaping the moral and ethical behavior of a future educators is highlighted as a model for Ukraine in struggle with tolerance to academic dishonesty manifestations in the educational process. On the basis of systematic analysis, it was proved that academic honesty is the rules and moral and ethical principles that all educators should use to build an atmosphere of mutual trust in the academic environment, updating the education system. Understanding and adopting academic norms based on systematic work and motivation is a necessary phenomenon for future educators. Updating the system of higher education is possible only with the active participation of students in reforms, providing suggestions on ways to improve the educational process. Many institutions of higher education in Ukraine already have "Ethical Codes" that define the principles of academic honesty at the legislative level. The next step towards restoring the academic culture of our country will be the creation of ethical commissions that will clearly regulate sanctions for non-compliance with ethical norms in the educational environment. It is concluded that academic honesty has gained special significance for the educational environment, and only joint efforts of the entire academic community can build the corporate culture of the university. It is necessary to deal comprehensively with tolerant attitude of students towards negative phenomena of violation of ethical principles in educational activities.

scholarly journals Investigating the probability of student cheating: The relevance of student characteristics,assessment items, perceptions of prevalence and history of engagement

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L Kremmer ◽  
Mark Brimble ◽  
Peta Stevenson-Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Fundamental Issue ◽  
University Administrators ◽  
Tertiary Sector ◽  
History Of ◽  
Student Cheating ◽  
Do So

Academic dishonesty is a fundamental issue in terms of the educational integrity of higher education institutions. Accordingly, there is a growing pool of literature that examines this issue. This study adds to this literature by investigating factors that may influence student engagement in academic misconduct. We examine the influence of the type of assessment items, age, gender, nationality, discipline and level of study and the students' self-reported history of cheating. Drawing from a survey of 1,057 students across four major Queensland universities, we find that a student's age, gender and nationality are useful in explaining the probability of a student cheating. Our key finding, however, suggests that the likelihood that a student will engage in any given cheating behaviour is most strongly influenced by the extent to which the student engages in other forms of cheating, supporting the notion of "once a cheat always a cheat". We conclude that more needs to be done to combat a culture of acceptance of academic dishonesty and to minimise defensive misconduct by students who otherwise might not engage in such behaviour. We suggest that university administrators devote increased resources to this issue and develop mechanisms for managing and curtailing the level of academic misconduct. A failure to do so may result in a further undermining of the academic integrity of the Australian tertiary sector.

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 Catching lightning in a bottle: Surveying plagiarism futures

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Dixon ◽  
Kelly George ◽  
Tyler Carr
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
At Risk ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Digital Evidence ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
New Challenges

The digitization of higher education is evolving academic misconduct, posing both new challenges to and opportunities for academic integrity and its research. The digital evidence inherent to online-based academic misconduct produces new avenues of replicable, aggregate, and data-driven (RAD) research not previously available. In a digital mutation of the misuse of unoriginal material, students are increasingly leveraging online learning platforms like CourseHero.com to exchange completed coursework. This study leverages a novel dataset recorded by the upload of academic materials on CourseHero.com to measure how at-risk sample courses are to potential academic misconduct. This study’s survey of exchanged coursework reveals that students are sharing a significant amount of academic material online that poses a direct danger to their courses’ academic integrity. This study’s approach to observing what academic material students are sharing online demonstrates a novel means of leveraging digitized academic misconduct to develop valuable insights for planning the mitigation of academic dishonesty and maintaining course academic integrity.

scholarly journals Academic integrity in future teachers training system

2018 ◽  
pp. 52-56
Author(s):  
Dana Sopova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Preschool Education ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Training System ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Ethical Principles ◽  
Future Teachers

The article outlines the conceptual foundations for the academic integrity formation in future teachers during vocational training; the essence of the academic integrity concept, its contents in relation to the formation of personal and professional characteristics of a competent specialist is researched; the attitude towards the displays of academic insecurity among the students of the specialty "Preschool education" is determined. The author investigates the increase in the number of the academic integrity principles violations in higher education institutions. The European experience in shaping the moral and ethical behavior of a future specialist in the education field is highlighted as a model for Ukraine to struggle with tolerance to academic insecurity manifestations in the educational process. Based on a systematic analysis, we have proved that academic integrity is the rules, moral and ethical principles that all participants in the educational process must use for building an atmosphere of mutual trust in the academic environment, updating the education system. Understanding and adopting academic norms based on systematic work and motivation is a necessary phenomenon for future educators. Updating the system of higher education is possible only with the active participation of students in reforms, proposals for ways to improve the educational process. Many institutions of higher education in Ukraine already have «Ethical Codes», which prescribe the principles of academic integrity at the legislative level. The next step for the restoration of our country's academic culture will be the creation of ethical commissions, which will clearly regulate sanctions and penalties for non-compliance with ethical norms in the educational and scientific environment. Academic integrity has gained special significance for the educational environment, and only joint efforts of the entire academic community may form the ultimate corporate culture of the university. It is necessary to deal comprehensively with tolerant attitude of students towards negative phenomena of violation of ethical principles in educational and scientific activities.

scholarly journals Tolerance to plagiarism in the Russian scientific community

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 164-176
Author(s):  
Anna A. Abalkina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Academic Misconduct ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Academic Ethics ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
Russian Scientific ◽  
The One ◽  
High Level ◽  
Russian Research

During last decade Russian research is characterized, on the one hand, by a rather high level of academic dishonesty, and on the other, by the activity of some scientific community to fight academic misconduct, which should lead to the adjustment of the norms on the admissibility of plagiarism or other forms of violation of academic ethics. However, a sufficiently large part of the academic community is not only tolerant to plagiarism, but also demonstrates a protest reaction on the establishment of obvious norms on the unacceptability of plagiarism. We analyzed the texts of the decisions of dissertation councils on the requests for with drawal of academic degree and identified the main methods of legitimizing plagiarism in the scientific community. Their analysis will allow us to conclude that the concept of plagiarism in the Russian scientific community is quite vague and that the part of the scientific community that justifies plagiarism is conservative enough from outside influence, or that it itself takes part in the dissertation business and is able to use the most absurd explanations to justify plagiarism.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER OF THE CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTION OF HIGHER EDUCATION IN FORMATION OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY OF STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 137-142
Author(s):  
M. V. Savytskyi ◽  
H. P. YEVSIEIEVA ◽  
H.I. LYSENKO
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Approaches To Learning ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Scientific Integrity ◽  
Teaching Staff

Formulation of the problem. The relevance of the study of the role of teachers of technical institutions of higher education in the formation of academic integrity of students is determined by: global trends in education, which are aimed at raising the standards of academic culture; National Strategy for Education Development in Ukraine; a new educational paradigm, which is based on the introduction of personality-oriented and competency-based approaches to learning, as well as compliance by all participants in the educational process of the principles of academic and scientific integrity. The purpose of the article is to analyze the level of development of professional and pedagogical competence of teachers of modern institutions of higher technical education and determine the role of research and teaching staff in shaping the academic integrity of students to improve the pedagogical process in higher technical school of Ukraine. Conclusion. The principles of academic integrity should become the daily norm of corporate culture of the modern academic community. Despite the fact that higher education in Ukraine has many problems with integrity, as it has only recently embarked on the path of building a virtuous educational environment, it is the principled position of teaching staff can help successfully introduce the norms of academic and scientific integrity in everyday practice including at Prydniprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture.

scholarly journals Summa Theologiae 2.0: Intellectual Mass Media in the Modern Russian Realities, or How “The Academic” became “The Mediatic”

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-87
Author(s):  
Maksym W. Kyrchanoff
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Normal Science ◽  
Doctoral Studies ◽  
Higher Education System ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
The Status ◽  
Western Experience ◽  
The Baltic

The research paper focuses on the specific features of the status of theology in the modern humanities in Russia. Studying the complexities and difficulties of the institutionalisation of theology and its localisation in the Russian university system and academic culture, the author foregrounds the post-Soviet European experience of the Baltic countries and Ukraine, where theology acquired the status of a “normal” science earlier than in Russia. Within the framework of this study, the peculiarities of the controversial status of theology in the system of higher education as well as in the Russian postgraduate and doctoral studies are considered in the contexts of the frontier of knowledge and the post-Soviet stereotypes. It is assumed that several factors, including the Soviet atheistic cultural heritage, the post-Soviet system of secular degrees and the traditionally significant role of representatives of the natural sciences in the academic community, may significantly contribute to slowing down the transformation of theology into a “normal” science. The paper also deals with the issue of how theology is transforming from the church life of the Russian Christians and becoming more noticeable in the Russian educational cultures and academic spaces. The arguments of the supporters and opponents of the official institutionalisation of theology in the higher education system are critically examined. The author pays special attention to the prospects and possibilities of using the Western experience of “secularization” of theology and its integration into the secular canons of science.

Strategies and Technologies for Preventing Plagiarism in Modern Higher Education

2016 ◽  
pp. 840-865
Author(s):  
Anton V. Dolzhenko ◽  
Tahir Mehmood Khan ◽  
Anna V. Dolzhenko
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Academic Honesty ◽  
Specialized Software ◽  
Challenging Issue ◽  
Policies And Procedures ◽  
University Policies

In today's higher education, plagiarism can be ranked as one of the top challenges to academic honesty and integrity. Defining plagiarism itself is another challenging issue as it is transcribed in different manners and practices depending on cultures and institutes. This chapter aims to define plagiarism in context of culture, student perceptions and according to different university policies and procedures adopted around the globe. Plagiarism comes under review not only as an individual's misconduct but more as a symptom of an eroded academic culture. The treatment of this symptom is discussed from point of view of two sometimes competing strategies. One of them is based on the formal side of the problem and uses as tools policy, detection (using specialized software), and punishments (PDP) to abolish plagiarism. Another one focuses on trust, education, and assessments (TEA) as points of intervention with the aim to improve academic integrity and negate plagiarism.

scholarly journals The Main Forms of Academic Cheating in Educational Practices of Ukrainian Students

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Dishonesty ◽  
Education System ◽  
Academic Integrity ◽  
Central Element ◽  
Academic Culture ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
General Context ◽  
Academic Cheating ◽  
The Impact

The article is devoted to appearance causes and prevalence level analysis of a "crib" as a form of academic dishonesty, the degree and peculiarities of its distribution in the Ukrainian higher education. The phenomenon of academic culture of students as a multicomponent phenomenon is described, which contains various types of formal and informal practices, educational and scientific activities are the major of them. The understanding of the academic culture of the students as an indicator of the state of the higher education system of Ukraine is substantiated. It allows to analyze the educational process in the general context of academic integrity (decency), that is a central element and a peculiar foundation for the academic culture and all its subjects. The historical experience of student use some forms of academic cheating is described. The impact of academic dishonesty on the quality, efficiency, and competitiveness of the entire education system is analyzed. The causes of widespreading the practice of cheating and using of cribs are described according to sociological researches "Academic Culture of Ukrainian Students: The Main Factors of Formation and Development", "Ukrainian Higher Education Reforms in the Assessments of the Participants of the Educational Process" and the All-Ukrainian Monitoring Survey "Ukrainian Teachers and the Learning Environment (TALIS)". It is determined that the origins of the practice of academic cheating originate in secondary school. Despite the fact that writing-off is perceived by all subjects of the educational process as a deviation from the norms of academic culture, but in the Ukrainian educational space, it is customary everyday practice and one of the components of learning. It is concluded that determining the factors that influence the positive attitude of students towards writing-off, will allow us to understand ways to overcome this problem and will provide an opportunity to identify productive quality sanction measures against violators of academic integrity. The most important, it will change the attitude of students and all subjects of academic culture to the violation of the norms of academic integrity.

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