Activity 12. Academic integrity policy

Academic integrity means honest and ethical behaviour in learning, teaching and scholarship.

Sessional staff are vital in supporting academic integrity. Spotting cases of plagiarism is an obvious, much talked-about facet of academic integrity, however academic integrity is also focused on preventing these sorts of cases, on promoting legitimate work, and on educating students on the merits and mechanisms of academic honesty.

Find your institution’s academic integrity website or policy. You may need to use Google, your institution’s policy bank, or your institution’s learning and teaching website to find it. Answer the following questions. 

1. How does your institution define academic integrity? 
2. What are your responsibilities with regard to academic integrity?  
3. Acknowledgement – what do students need to know? 
4. How will they learn this? 
5. Referencing – what do students need to know? 
6. Where will they learn how to reference? 
7. How does your institution define academic misconduct? 
8. Who deals with academic misconduct? 
9. How is academic misconduct dealt with? 
10. How is text-matching software used at your institution? 

Activity source: Adapted from Academic Integrity Standards Project (2012). Aligning policy and practice in Australian universities. Retrieved from http://www.apfei.edu.au/

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