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

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)

Integrity

Say/Think

Do/ActBelieve/Feel

INTEGRITY

Integrity

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

What is Academic Integrity?

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

Academic Dishonesty

Exercise:

How many behaviors can you list that you think constitutes cheating?

Academic Dishonesty

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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10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

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100

1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010

% of instance recorded

% of instance recorded

Source: Sims 1993, CNN 2002 and McCabe 2005 as qtd in Graves, 2008

Why are these figures a problem?

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

The problem this leads to…

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)

Some Personal Loses too!

Achieving the Honorable

Session One: Honor in Academia

BREAK

Honesty supports intellectual growth and creates a fair learning environment

Foundation of teaching and learning

Looks familiar?

Looks familiar?

studentSchools and teacher

Teaching and Learning with Honor

parents

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

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

2

• 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.

5

• 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%

Can lead to dire consequences

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%

Achieving the Honorable

Session One: Honor in Academia

BREAK

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

Step 2: Establish Procedures

Professional Judgment

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

Step 3: Establish Consequences

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

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Session Two: Honor in Inclusive Education

Facilitator: Dr. Binu C. B.