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UOWD Counselors’ Workshop 2015
Achieving the Honorable
Session One: Honor in Academia
Facilitator: Zeenath Reza Khan
Pledge
I pledge
• To pay attention and learn all I can• To be honest and sincere• To respect myself, the facilitator and the participants• To take back the best for my school and students• To be the best I can be!
Integrity
Honesty – ought to be the foundation of human interaction
Lying is probably one of the most common wrong acts that we carry out. Most people would condemn lying except
when there's a good reason for it.
BECAUSE
Telling the truth is an exercise in the experience of painful discomfort
(Source: BBC Ethics)
What is Academic Integrity?
Exercise:
Try writing out a definition for academic integrity below. Highlight by underlining the key words in your definition that you think are crucial to the definition
Why academic integrity?
Graduate Attributes
Honesty
Integrity
TrustGraduate attributes are the academic abilities, personal qualities and transferable
skills which all students will have the opportunity to
develop as part of their the school/university’s
experience.
What Graduate Attributes Lead to…
Longer Lives
Higher Salaries
Better Jobs
Stable employment
Graduate Attributes
Source: Campbell, 2011
2007: More than half the students in Canadian universities are cheaters4
2012: 125 Harvard students caught cheating, dozens forced to withdraw2
2012: 45,000 caught cheating at Britain's universities1
2014: ALMOST 5,000 students have been caught cheating at Scotland’s universities3
Academic Dishonesty
2010: Abu Dhabi University expels 34 students for cheating5
2012: UAE students using lentil-sized earpiece to cheat6
2015: 78 per cent of respondents admitted to cheating by using technology7
Not just an international problem
A rising problem
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Source: Sims 1993, CNN 2002 and McCabe 2005 as qtd in Graves, 2008
What happens when students cheat?
Cheating in schools increase
Unethical behavior at
work increase
Source: Sims, 1995, Khan et al, 2006
What happens when students cheat?
Cheating in schools increase
Unethical behavior at
work increase
Source: Sims, 1995, Khan et al, 2006
Damaging Consequences
Raises Doubt on Quality
Doubts on the value of the education provided by schools and universities
Lose Standing
Schools and Universities lose academic standing
Lose Opportunities
Not considered for scholarships, internships, job offers
(Sources: Nelson, 2002; Sims, 1995; Harding et al., 2004; Nonis & Swift, 2001)
Honesty supports intellectual growth and creates a fair learning environment
Foundation of teaching and learning
What students get up to
• Copying and pasting another person’s ideas, thoughts, ideas, images, etc
• Allowing others to copy from self• Buying readymade essays, reports, etc• Writing essay, report for another student• Access others’ accounts to steal their work,
username and password• Use ICT to steal or help others• Use unauthorized ICT where not allowed• Falsify medical documents to avail special
consideration• Falsify data for research• Falsify identify
Consequences can be dire!
Student Responsibility1. Read and know Academic Integrity Policy. 2. Report to the teacher if cheating is taking place and how it is being done. 3. Do not copy homework or let someone else copy your homework. 4. Do not use study aids as an alternative to completing an assignment. 5. Only work with others when the teacher has specifically given permission. 6. Seek only appropriate help from parents, tutors, or other students; check with
the teacher prior to receiving the help to know what help and assistance is appropriate.
7. If collaboration has not been specified as permissible, the assignment must be the students’ individual honest effort.
8. Take responsibility for doing fair share on a collaborative assignment. 9. On papers, do not summarize, paraphrase or quote without proper
documentation. 10. During tests and quizzes, keep paper covered and eyes on own paper. 11. Do not talk during test except to teacher. 12. Do not discuss any aspect of the test until the teacher has returned it or given
permission to discuss it.
What parents get up to
Parents are willing to help children complete homework
1/10 Parents admit it is less stressful if they do the work
70% Parents admit their children are happy to let them do it
4/10 Parents claim they get a ”buzz” if their child gets top marks on projects
Parents feel they are in competition with other parents
That’s not all they do!
(Source: Copping, 2014)
Parents’ Responsibility
1• Read and know the school’s Academic Integrity Policy
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• Help the student understand they value academic integrity and expect the student to comply with the school’s Academic Integrity Policy
3
• Support the imposition of consequences if the Academic Integrity Policy is violated
4• Require students to do their own work.
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• When helping students with assignments, ensure that their work remains their own
6• Become role models of integrity
System is fighting back!
What teachers and schools get up to
66% Teachers feel it is not a problem to change student grades
Schools provide students with questions beforehand71%
(Source: Huffington Post, 2011
Teachers feel pressure to change student grades for the better
30%
Teachers feel pressure to help students
34%
Teachers know other educators who helped students
21%
Teachers admit to changing answer sheets
8%
Teachers’ Responsibility
1. Be precise about expectations for students by clearly stating the Academic Integrity Policy, orally and in writing.
2. Communicate the range of consequences for Academic Integrity violations to the students.
3. Clearly specify when collaboration with other students is permitted on an assignment.
4. Review student work regularly for violations of the Academic Integrity Policy.
5. Report violations of the Academic Integrity Policy regarding own class assignments to an administrator.
6. Report violations of the Academic Integrity Policy regarding another teacher’s class assignments to that teacher (i.e., when an English teacher observes students copying Math homework in English class, the English teacher should report that to the Math teacher).
7. Tell students when they are allowed to discuss a test after it has been given.
School Responsibility
1. Make available to all students, teachers and parents a copy of the school’s Academic Integrity Policy.
2. Facilitate ongoing conversations and reflection about the Academic Integrity Policy.
3. Administer fair and consistent consequences for offenses of the Academic Integrity Policy.
4. Maintain records of Academic Integrity Policy offenses.
5. Set up an HonorCode/pledge system
School Responsibility
With schools and universities that have honor codes in place, 10% of the students have been recorded to have engaged in some kind of cheating as opposed to campuses without honor codes who have recorded as high as between 25% - 75%
Teaching and Learning with Honor
Stage One - Primitive
Stage Two - Radar Screen
Stage Three – Mature
Stage Four – Honor Code
Teaching and Learning with Honor
Step 1: Establish Academic
Writing
Step 2: Establish
Procedures
Step 3: Establish
Consequences
Step 1: Establish Academic Writing
Expository Descriptive
Narrative Persuasive
Creative
(Source: teAchnology http://www.teach-nology.com/themes/lang_arts/typesofwriting/)
Expository writing – type of writing used to explain, describe.
Its writing style is formal, standard and academic
Organization is systematic and deliberate
Written to inform and instruct with evidence
Suggested Procedures for Upholding Academic Integrity
Teacher • Document violation and report to authority
Authority• Record violation as part of student disciplinary record
• Review record and determine instance (eg. First time etc
Teacher• Confer with student and perhaps parents to review
policy and clarify why the behavior is a violation
Teacher/
Authority• Impose appropriate penalty
Suggested Consequences
First-time violation
• Point deduction on a quiz, test, paper, project, or homework assignment, a zero or negative points assigned as the grade.
• Detention(s).
• Grade lowered one (1) letter grade for the quarter or semester report card.
• A teacher may decline to write a letter of recommendation or report it in a letter. A teacher may also rescind a recommendation after it has been sent.
Repeat violation
• Repeat offense in same class: Conference called by Administrator with student, teacher, parent, and counselor.
• Repeat offense, but not in the same class: Appropriate action taken by Administrator (e.g., detention and Saturday school).
• Grade lowered several letter grades for the quarter or semester report card.
• Suspension and/or exclusion from extracurricular activities, including removal from school.
In the end…
In the end…
UOWD Counselors’ Workshop 2015
Achieving the Honorable
Session Two: Honor in Inclusive Education
Facilitator: Dr. Binu C. B.
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