Academic Integrity Teaching Resources

Professors have an important responsibility to build a culture of trust and honesty in the classroom to support academic integrity.  Learn what you need to know to create this environment, about violations, how to prevent violations, and what to do if you suspect a student of a violation. These teaching tools will help your students gain the skills they’ll need in school and in the workplace.

At Rowan ~ General Resources ~ Promoting Academic Integrity ~ Academic Misconduct ~ Cheating ~ Fabrication ~ Plagiarism

Academic Integrity at Rowan

• Academic Integrity At Rowan: Your Education, Your Future: Student Information
• Academic Integrity At Rowan: Faculty Information  Note: Need to login with Rowan credentials
• Rowan Academic Integrity Policy
• Strategies for prevention - from Academic Affairs
• Report a Suspected Violation  Note: Need to login with Rowan credentials
• Academic Integrity Workshop Virtual Session (1/11/2022) - Recording
• Academic Integrity Overview Video by Stephen Fleming (12/2021) (4:52) provides an overview of Academic Integrity including its definition, the various types of academic integrity violations, and their definitions as described within Rowan’s Academic Integrity Policy. Dr. Fleming is the Associate Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. 
• Canvas Commons Academic Integrity Module:
  • In Canvas Commons, search for Academic Integrity, click on module, preview tab, 11 pages of content available
  • On the Student Focused Content Page there is the following content (download parts that you would like to share with your students):
    • Introducing Academic Integrity on syllabus week
    • Policy link
    • Code of conduct
    • How to Prevent Violations
    • Plagiarism
    • On the Faculty Focused Content Page there is information on Tips for Addressing Academic Integrity in Your Course.
• RTC Spring 2021 Conference Part 1: Academic Integrity Violations and PREVENTION Strategies (4/9/2021)
  • After the opening is a presentation, "Building a Culture of Trust," by Allison Kelly, PhD., lecturer in the Chemistry/Biochemistry Department. Allison will point out that prevention strategies are the first step, and will share conversations she's had with students about learning, growth mindset, and where she draws the line. 

    Allison Kelly's Presentation: Building a Culture of Trust (pdf) ~ WebEx Recording

• Spring 2021 Conference Part 2: Academic Integrity Violations and RESPONSE Strategies (4/30/2021)
  • This session featured presentations from Eve Sledjeski (Assistant Professor, Psychology), who spoke about how faculty can best prepare to report an Academic Integrity Violation, and Tricia Yurak (Associate Provost for Academic Affairs), who spoke about the AIV board hearing process and current academic integrity trends at Rowan. WebEx Recording
     
    Eve Sledjeski's presentation: Submitting an AIV Report (pdf)
     
    Trish Yurak's presentation: Academic Integrity at Rowan University (pdf)

General Resources

• International Center for Academic Integrity - The International Center for Academic Integrity (ICAI) cultivates integrity in academic communities throughout the world to promote ethical institutions and societies. ICAI offers assessment services, resources, and consultations to its member institutions, and facilitates critical conversations about integrity.
• Understanding and Applying the Six Values of Academic Integrity in all Aspects of our Teaching Learning Roles and Experiences
• Promoting Academic Integrity in Online Education (pdf) - 9 articles

Promoting Academic Integrity

• Academic Honesty Self-Test - to use this site with your students, we suggest having the students take a screen shot of their final score with the date & time in the screenshot to verify they completed the self-test.
• IDOA Student Committee’s Jeopardy on Contract Cheating: A review and helpful guide to using the game
• How to Avoid Academic Irresponsibility: Tips for Students

General Prevention Tips

• Tips for Preventing Academic Misconduct
• Academic Integrity Faculty Checklist

Academic Misconduct

Academic Misconduct includes the alteration of grades; involvement in the acquisition or distribution of unadministered tests; and the unauthorized submission of student work in more than one class.

•  Academic Misconduct - (2018) (5:42)

Cheating

Cheating is an act of deception by which a person misrepresents his or her mastery of material on a test or other academic exercise.

• Fourteen Simple Strategies to Reduce Cheating on Online Examinations
• Guidelines to Reduce the Risk of Cheating in Online Examinations

Fabrication

Fabrication refers to the deliberate use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive.

• Fabrication or Falsification - from NIU

Plagiarism

Plagiarism occurs when a person represents someone else's words, ideas, phrases, sentences, or data as one's own work. When submitting work that includes someone else's words, ideas, syntax, data, computer code, visual images, or other non-textual materials, or organizational patterns, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate and specific references. All verbatim statements must be acknowledged through quotation marks and in proper citations.

• Plagiarize-Proof Your Writing Assignments
• Can I Use that Picture? The Terms, Laws, and Ethics for Using Copyrighted Images
• Defining and Avoiding Plagiarism: WPA Statement on Best Practices
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers
• A High Percentage of Fear? Using Turnitin and other Plagiarism Detection Software to Deter Plagiarism without Increasing Student Anxiety

Updated 1/30/22

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