Posts Tagged ‘academic integrity’
December 12 - Our Top 11 Most Popular Articles for 2011, part 1
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
As another year draws to a close, the editorial team at Faculty Focus looks back on some of the top articles of the past year. Throughout 2011, we published nearly 250 articles. The articles covered a wide range of topics – from academic integrity to online course design. In a two-part series, which will run today and Wednesday, we’re revealing the top 11 articles for 2011. Each article’s popularity ranking is based on a combination of the number of comments and shares, e-newsletter open and click-thru rates, and other reader engagement metrics.
November 28 - The Writing Process: Step-by-Step Approach Curbs Plagiarism, Helps Students Build Confidence in Their Writing Ability
By: Carmen Hamlin in Effective Teaching Strategies
I’ve long been an advocate of student-centered learning and approaching material from a variety of perspectives. We hear so many buzzwords describing the ways we should teach or the ways our students learn, and we deal increasingly with issues of plagiarism and academic dishonesty. In a classroom of adult learners who frequently view themselves as consumers, we balance the need to meet their demands with the need for them to meet ours. Getting back to the basics can intrinsically incorporate kinesthetic, collaborative learning and nearly eliminate plagiarism while promoting critical thinking.
November 17 - Confronting Cheating: A Legal Primer and Tool Kit
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
Cheating strikes at the core of your school’s integrity. It creates an unethical environment among your students, and ultimately diminishes the quality and reputation of your institution. Here’s what you can do about it.
September 22 - Academic Integrity: Examining Two Common Approaches
By: Jennifer Garrett in Trends in Higher Education
Any effort to fundamentally change a school’s approach to academic integrity requires an understanding of its current organizational response to cheating (Bertram Gallant, 2008). Organizational approaches to student cheating form a continuum from highly decentralized to highly centralized, and most schools fall somewhere on this spectrum. The more decentralized a school’s response to cheating is,
August 22 - Do’s and Don’ts for Promoting Academic Integrity
By: Mary Bart in Effective Classroom Management
Donald McCabe’ s 2005 article “Cheating Among College And University Students: A North American Perspective” is often cited for its sobering statistics regarding the prevalence of cheating in higher education.
The numbers are alarming and do require a serious response, but have you ever turned the numbers upside down? For example, if 42 percent of college students admit to working with others on individual assignments, that means 58 percent aren’t getting help from others and those students would like you to do something about the 42 percent. If 38 percent admit to plagiarizing, that means 62 percent aren’t plagiarizing and those students expect you to do something about the 38 percent.
August 18 - Promoting Academic Integrity
By: Maryellen Weimer, PhD in Teaching Professor Blog
In a recent conversation, a faculty member expressed great dismay at the amount of cheating taking place in higher education and the cavalier attitude of many students toward it. His dismay is well founded. Depending on the study (and there have been many) anywhere between 40 to 60% of students report that they have cheated and they indicate a much higher percentage of their peers have as well. The faculty member I was talking to then went into a detailed description of all the measures he took to prevent cheating.
July 29 - Building a Culture of Academic Integrity
By: Mary Bart in White Papers
The truth is most colleges and universities struggle with academic dishonesty. But the schools that have had the most success with remedying cheating are the ones that focus on transforming culture rather than changing behavior. Learn how with a copy of this white paper.
June 13 - Tips for Preventing Plagiarism among College Students
By: Mary Bart in Instructional Design
For some students, a writing assignment takes weeks of research, writing and revisions. For others, the ingredients are more along the lines of Google, CTRL+C and CTRL+V. And for others still, the assignment is nothing more than a transaction with an online essay mill.
May 31 - Teaching Integrity: Effective Responses to Cheating
By: Mary Bart in Online Seminars
How do you feel when you catch a student cheating? Do you feel pressured into being a disciplinarian, not an educator? Or do you look the other way because you can’t stand the bureaucratic hassle? The seminar will show you how to take a proactive approach to dealing with cheating.
May 17 - Turnitin Study Examines ‘Copy and Paste’ Plagiarism
By: Mary Bart in Trends in Higher Education
When students need to write a paper, where do they go? A study released last month on plagiarism found that social and user-generated websites are the most popular resources, followed by academic and homework-related sites. Cheat sites and paper mills comprised less than 15 percent of the total resources used and showed the most significant decline over the period examined.
