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Integrity Works!
Supporting Academic Integrity
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Academic Integrity can be defined by honest academic work where (1) the ideas and the writing of others are properly cited; (2) students submit their own work for tests and assignments without unauthorized assistance; (3) students do not provide unauthorized assistance to others; and (4) students report their research or accomplishments accurately.
Program Goals
 The School for Ethical Education in collaboration with UCONN Neag School of Education is conducting a research and implementation study to promote academic integrity and reduce cheating and plagiarism in high schools. The focus of the program is for project schools to form an academic integrity committee (AIC) to include administration, faculty and students with the goal of authoring, implementing and evaluating a two-year strategic plan promoting academic integrity. Project facilitators will support the work of the AIC and evaluate outcomes with student and faculty surveys and interviews. Research suggests the project interventions will support a school community’s increased connection with principles of academic integrity and demonstrate a decline in student self-reported incidents of academic dishonesty.
This website is designed to provide (1) project school participants with relevant information while participating in the program, (2) non-project school staff or students with the opportunity to network and exchange information about academic integrity, and (3) anyone interested in researching academic integrity with resources and a conceptual model to support their inquiry.
Conceptual Model for Academic Integrity Project
The figure below provides a conceptual model to support the implementation of an academic-integrity program. The main strategy of this project is the organization and administration of an academic integrity committee (AIC). Organizers of an AIC would recruit influential leaders of the school community to include--administration, faculty and students, as well as parents and other interested community members.
Once organized with representatives of their community, AICs, are encouraged to perform a strategic analysis of the school and organize their activities to address—
- Core Values of the school community by clarifying and articulating values that support the advancement of academic integrity,
- Curriculum of the school and how it focuses students on mastery learning which includes the respect for personal intellectual growth and protection of intellectual property,
- Community engagement in the shared responsibility of supporting academic integrity,
- Commitments of the school community to sustain an AIC and strategies the AIC uses to cultivate and maintain student and adult support of the academic integrity as part of the school’s mission.
Suggested Project Activities
There are a variety of activities that can be implemented to advance the mission of an Academic Integrity Committee (AIC) such as helping the school clarify its core values that support the goals of academic integrity, creating activities to help faculty and students define academic integrity and working to develop teaching practices that support students’ demonstrating academic integrity.
Consult the list of suggested Academic Integrity Committee (AIC) strategies.
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