Academic Integrity for Faculty   Tags: cheating, plagiarism  

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1. Recognize and affirm academic integrity as a core institutional value.
2. Foster a lifelong commitment to learning.
3. Affirm the role of teacher as a guide and mentor.
4. Help students understand the potential of the Internet - and how that potential can be lost if on-line resources are used for fraud, theft, and deception.
5. Encourage student responsibility for academic integrity.
6. Clarify expectations for students.
7. Develop fair and creative forms of assessment.
8. Reduce opportunities to engage in academic dishonesty.
9. Respond to academic dishonesty when it occurs.
10. Help define and support campus-wide academic integrity standards.

From: McCabe, D.L. and G. Pavela, "Ten (Updated) Principles of Academic Integrity: How Faculty Can Foster Student Honesty" Change, 2004. 36(3): 10-15.

Promoting Academic Integrity
During the seminar, Bertram Gallant shared the following do’s and don’ts for promoting academic integrity in the college classroom.

Do

• Be clear about your expectations and rules for completing every assignment and test.
• Model integrity by citing your sources, showing up on time and prepared, and changing your exams and assignments from year to year.
• Limit temptations for cheating during your examinations.
• Work with your school’s policy and processes to reduce cheating.
• Rethink your out-of-class assignments – are they really measuring what you think they are?
• See academic and professional integrity as part of your teaching job – it may be one of the most important things you teach!

Don’t

• Assume the students know which behaviors are cheating and which are not.
• Tell students “don’t cheat or else” and expect that to work.
• Allow students to keep their exams and then wonder why your exams are “out there.”
• Confuse sloppy authorship with plagiarism – not all missed citations are an attempt to deceive.
• Expect students to learn from their mistakes unless someone is facilitating that learning.

from Bart, Mary. "Do's and Don'ts for Promoting Academic Integrity." Faculty Focus, August 22, 2011. http://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-classroom-management/dos-and-donts-for-promoting-academic-integrity/