Promote Academic Integrity
How to Promote Academic Integrity in the Classroom
- Get to know your students. The more connection they feel to you, the less likely they are to cheat.
- Include information about the academic integrity policy and what it means in your course/field of study, in your syllabus.
- Facilitate a discussion about academic integrity in the classroom, including standards, norms and discipline. Give specific examples.
- Use accessible language when you talk or write about academic integrity.
- Recognize that students from other parts of the world may have learned a different set of norms around academic integrity.
- Model academic honesty in your teaching by pointing out where and how you cited information on slides, etc.
- Consistently enforce academic integrity standards and address all acts of academic dishonesty.
- Be explicit about what are not legitimate resources for help. If you want students to avoid Chegg or Course Hero, for example, make that clear.
- Be explicit about acceptable and unacceptable behaviors.
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FAQ
Often international students have a very different concept of academic integrity than do students from the United States. It is crucial for you to convey accepted norms for a U.S. research institution to all students, but particularly so to international students.
| Common U.S. Academic Integrity Norms | Common International Academic Integrity Norms |
|---|---|
Originality. | Memorization. |
Actively pursuing and creating knowledge. | Reproducing/copying texts. |
Critiquing others’ ideas and questioning authorities. | Absorbing information. |
Creating new documents which push knowledge boundaries. | Practice by summarizing others’ works. |
Individual submission of assignments. | Group studying and sharing of notes and other materials. |