Academic Integrity
As an educator, promoting academic integrity and reducing the potential for academic dishonesty begins with:
- Establishing a culture of honesty and building connections with learners.
- Developing an academic integrity vocabulary in your class.
- Being clear about what is and what is not allowed to reduce uncertainty, scaffold assignments and have assignments that show their work and are relevant to students.
- Responding and addressing academic dishonesty where it does occur.
- Linking values to professional ethics and professional codes.
TRU Resources
- Understanding Academic Integrity, TRU
- Creating a Culture of Integrity, TRU
- Preventing Academic Integrity Violations, TRU
- Detection of Academic Integrity Violations, TRU
Journal Resources
- Academic Integrity Council of Ontario
- International Journal for Educational Integrity
- Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity
Textbook Resources
This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
- Includes cutting-edge scholarship on controversial and emerging topics such as contract cheating and visual plagiarism
- Offers perspectives about academic integrity and Indigenous epistemologies written by leading Indigenous academics
- Presents new understandings of academic integrity resulting from Covid-19 and what this means for teaching and learning
- Encouraging Academic Integrity Through a Preventative Framework
Additional Resources
- Lang, J.M. (2013). Cheating lessons: Learning from academic dishonesty. Harvard University Press. (available from the TRU Library)
- Detecting contract cheating in essay and report submissions: process, patterns, clues and conversations | International Journal for Educational Integrity | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)
- Does an educative approach work? A reflective case study of how two Australian higher education Enabling programs support students and staff uphold a responsible culture of academic integrity | International Journal for Educational Integrity | Full Text (biomedcentral.com)
- Faculty - Academic Integrity - University of Saskatchewan (usask.ca)
- Smart Strategies – Academic Integrity (utoronto.ca)
- What Is Grammarly, and Is It Cheating?
- Contract Cheating - Three Challenges for 2021
