Here are some strategies that can be implemented in order to curb the use of academic misconduct in your teaching.<\/p>\n
Spend time building community in the class and collaborating with them on creating a learning environment that promotes mutual respect. This may increase likelihood of students reaching out to you they encountering difficulties. Some good suggestions are available from CITL\u2019s Guide on Creating Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n Provide students with opportunities to ask questions about academic integrity or their work in a safe place.<\/p>\n Include flexibility on deadlines. This also has a positive effect of increasing inclusivity.<\/p>\n When students contact instructors to say they cannot meet the deadline for a given assignment, the instructors would give students a one-week extension with no questions asked. Most students do not take advantage of the full week.<\/p>\n Institutions could seek ways to incentivize academic integrity. For example, Academic Integrity could be included in Promotion and Tenure information as a topic to discuss relating to teaching and research.<\/p>\n Ditch bell curve grading and focus on student learning outcomes.<\/p>\n Change questions or details of questions regularly. Avoid high stakes assessment. Include more formative assessment with immediate feedback.<\/p>\n One way to ensure students have acknowledged academic integrity when completing an assignment or exam is to build in a statement or question that students need to indicate they\u2019ve seen. For example:<\/p>\nBring Academic Integrity Into the Open:<\/h2>\n
Flexibility:<\/h2>\n
Hall Pass, or \u201cGet Out of Jail Free\u201d Pass:<\/h2>\n
Incentivization:<\/h2>\n
Change Focus of Assessment:<\/h2>\n
Redesign Assessments:<\/h2>\n
Draft First Question for Quizzes or Exams, etc.:<\/h2>\n