9,000 Freshmen, One Common

Foundation: Academic IntegrityJoe Buenker,

Leslee Shell & Julie TharpLOEX 36th National

Conference

Academic Integrity @ ASU

• Spring/Summer 2007: ASU Libraries developed an academic integrity module for the new ASU 101 course

• ASU 101– freshman-level

– mandatory course

ASU Campuses

• 4 campuses• 8 libraries• 60,000+ students

“One University in Many Places”

• Increasingly students take courses on two or more campuses over ASU career

• Single university accreditation

• Single university governance/Senate

• Increased collaboration

Unified Curriculum

ASU 101 vs. FYE University Success Course

FYE:

• Coordinated by University Academic Success Program

• Taught by graduate students

• Not required for all freshmen

• Colleges not participating have little or no awareness of course content

ASU 101:

• Coordinated by the University Provost’s Office

• Taught by administrators, faculty and advisors

• Required of 9,000+ freshmen

• All colleges and departments participate

How We Got Involved

• Task force: curriculum planning

• Model syllabus

• Expert teams

• Instructional design support

Academic Integrity Expert Team

• 2 librarians from Tempe campus

• 3 librarians from West campus

• 1 instructional designer

• 2 month timeline

• Weekly meetings

Structure of ASU 101

• Hybrid format

• 5 week course

• 1.5 hours/week in-class time

• Administered through Blackboard

ASU 101: Module Standards

• For continuity, each module must have:– Introductory activity that facilitates learning– “Overview”

• PowerPoint and Macromedia Breeze narration

– Discussion board questions– Assessment / quiz

Academic Integrity Issues in Higher Education

• Not a new phenomenon

• Different findings regarding prevalence and frequency

• Not just plagiarism

• Large body of literature

• Relies on self-reported behavior

Large-Scale Surveying

• Prof. Donald McCabe of Rutgers

• Center for Academic Integrity (Clemson U)

• 80,000+ students and 12,000+ faculty

• 83 American and Canadian institutions(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)

Academic Dishonesty Over Time

1963 1993

• Serious test cheating 39% 64%

• Serious cheating on 65% 66% written work

• All cheating 75% 82%(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)

Factors at Play

• Students: – behaviors determines frequency of misconduct

• Faculty: – behaviors can deter misconduct (use of plagiarism detection

tools, use of proctors during exams, etc.)

• Institutional Culture: – Student Code of Conduct

– Honor Code(Hard, Conway and Moran 2006)

Why Do Students Cheat?

• Ignorance

• Not invested in learning

• Situational ethics

• Low risk of detection(Auer and Kupar, 2001)

What Students Say

• Time pressures (stress)

• Ease of cut-and-paste plagiarism

• Low risk of detection

• Dislike for the class or professor(Lester and Diekhoff, 2002)

• Peer behavior (situational ethics)(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)

Who Cheats?• High school students cheat at higher rate.

• Majority of high school cheater continue to cheat in college.

• Cheating is more widespread at larger university campuses.

• High cheating rates among sororities / fraternities and college athletics.

(Miller, Murdock, Anderman and Poindexter 2007)

Major U.S. Plagiarism Studies I

• College students and print sources

1964 = 43%(Bowers)

2003 = 40%(Hansen)

Major U.S. Plagiarism Studies II• High school students and print sources

1985 (California) = 51%

1989 (Georgia) = 76%

• Internet Plagiarism

2001 (high school) = 52%2003 (college) = 38%

(Hansen 2003)

Blackboard Module

Narrated PowerPoint (Breeze)

• https://www.asu.edu/courses/asu101/breeze/academic_integrity_intro/index.htm

Academic Honesty / Dishonesty Survey

• ACTIVITY: Decide if the behaviors described in the scenarios are honest or dishonest

Secondary Learning Objective: Avoiding

Plagiarism• Avoiding plagiarism handout

• Test your understanding

• Discussion

ASU 101 Evaluations: W.P. Carey College of Business

• Discovering Campus Resources and Academic Advising:Very, Somewhat Helpful – 83% Not Helpful – 16% No Response – 1%

• Academic Success / Integrity:Academic Success / Integrity:Very, Somewhat Helpful -79% Not Helpful – 20% No Response -1%

• Getting Involved on Campus:Very, Somewhat Helpful – 77% Not Helpful – 22% No Response – 1%

• Managing Time Effectively, Study Skills:Very, Somewhat Helpful – 73% Not Helpful – 22% No Response – 5%

• Stress Management:Very, Somewhat Helpful – 66% Not Helpful – 27% No Response – 7%

Next Steps: Library Module 2 for ASU 101

• 3 librarians and 1 instructional designer currently developing a second module

• Focus of Module:– Locations, services and collections of ASU Libraries– Relevance and importance of academic libraries in

the Google Era

References I• Auer, N.J. & Kupar, E.M. (2001). Mouse click plagiarism: The

role of technology in combating plagiarism and the librarian’s role in combating it. Library Trends, 49(3): 415-432.

• Hansen, B. (2003). Combating plagiarism. CQ Researcher, 13(2): 773-796.

• Hard, S.F., Conway, J.M., & Moran, A.C. (2006). Faculty and student beliefs about the frequency of student academic misconduct. The Journal of Higher Education, 77(6): 1058-1080.

• Lester, M.C. & Diekhoff, G.M. (2002). A comparison of traditional and Internet cheaters. Journal of College Student Development, 43(6): 906-911.

References II

• McCabe, D.L., Trevino, L.K., & Butterfield, K.D. (2001). Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research. Ethics and Behavior, 11(3): 219-232.

• Miller, A.D., Murdock, T.B., Anderman, E.M. and Poindexter, A.L. (2007). Who are all these cheaters? Characteristics of academically dishonest students (pp. 9-32). In Anderman and Murdock.

Recommended Sources• Anderman, E.M., & Murdock, T.B. (eds.). (2007). Psychology of

academic cheating. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier Academic Press.http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123725417

• ASU Libraries. Academic integrity & plagiarism. http://library.west.asu.edu/refguides/integrity/

• The Center for Academic Integrity, Rutland Institute for Ethics, Clemson University. http://www.academicintegrity.org/

• Stern, L. (2007). What every student should know about avoiding plagiarism. New York: Pearson/Longman. http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,,0321446895,00%2ben-USS_01DBC.html

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