Promoting Academic Integrity

Plagiarism, fraud and cheating

Promoting Academic Integrity

Fraud

Cheating

Plagiarism

Linked to the misuse of citation guidelines and rules

Linked to deliberate acts

Means of Intervention

Detection

enforcing academic integrity

Awareness

of academic misconduct

Prevention

limiting the risks of academic misconduct

Adapting

pedagogical design

Adapted from Pagé, M., & Jolicoeur, N. (2015).5). Prévenir le plagiat et la tricherie: pour une stratégie concertée et à long terme. Pédagogie collégiale vol. 28, n° 3, spring 2019

Adapting

“Designing more authentic evaluations based on skill and performance rather than memorization. This entails the modification of learning activities, administrative procedures, evaluation criteria and the roles of instructors.” (Audet, 2011)

Pedagogical Design in Distance Education

•To maximize student engagement, consider having both synchronous and asynchronous lectures...

30 minutes/60 minutes

Synchronous lecture sessions

1/3 as long

Compared to in class lectures

Adapting (continuted)

Designing Evaluations for Distance Education

• Evaluations throughout the course .

• Designing authentic evaluations.

• Evaluating based on:

• Use evaluations in a variety of situations, allowing for ample feedback.

• Use various evaluation methods that require students to reflect upon their learning experiences in different ways (not just in writing, as this can lead students to simply copy from their work).

Example

Product

Process

Reflection

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• Avoid broad and unspecific questions, as answers can often be found on the internet. If possible, add very specific details.

Example

Evaluating Processes and Reflections

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Awareness

Making students aware of their responsibilities and best practices can and should be done in several ways:

• Explaining the importance of the reflective process.
• Raise awareness: explain what qualifies as plagarism, fraud and cheating.
• Explaining good practices in terms of team work.
• Having clear expectations in terms of citations/referencing norms.
• Providing constructive criticism for students when plagiarism, fraud or cheating may have occurred.
• Explaining why the assignemens are important; the impact that the skills/knowledge gained will have on the careers of students.

omProviding resources tomake referencing/citing easier(ex: EndNotes, Zotero, Scribbr).Being flexiblewith students (especially for the beginning of the semester) to reduce anxiety and ensure they reference correctly.If you wish for students to refrain from consulting outside material, consider reducing the allowed timefor the evaluation. Developing large question banksand using software that randomly selects questions.Usingrelease conditions(ex: Courselink has features that prevent students fromseeing discussions until they’ve submitted their work).Using supervision technologies(i.e Respondus) during online examinations.e

Prevention

Methods for preventing fraud and plagiarism include pedagogical practices and administering evaluations in ways that promote academic integrity.

• Providing resources to make referencing/citing easier (ex: EndNotes, Zotero, Scribbr).
• Being flexible with students (especially for the beginning of the semester) to reduce anxiety and ensure they reference correctly.
• Limit the evaluation time if you want to avoid students consulting outside resources.
• Developing large question banks and using software that randomly selects questions.
• Using release conditions (ex: Courselink has features that prevent students from seeing discussions until they’ve submitted their work).
• Using supervision technologies (i.e. Respondus) during online examinations.

• Get to know your students

Example

• Involve your students

Example

• Clarify expectations

Example

Detection and Repression

Methods of detectionand intervention include any strategies or tools that allow you to detect academic misconduct and to sanction against it.

• Differences in style throughout an assignment.
• Signs of “copy and paste”.
• A bibliography in a different format.
• A disparate layout.
• Discrepancy between graphics/tables and references.
• Many inactive websites in the bibliography.
• Parts of the assignment appear in a Google search.

• Detecting plagiarism

Ask for a verbal explanation from the student

• When in doubt

• A tool to detect plagiarism

Turnitin (Dropbox Integration)

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