Academic IntegrityIn the Online Environment

Why do students cheat?

Pressure Fear of failure Cultural Differences Unclear guidelines Ring of Gyges Dilema What reasons have you encountered with

students?

Do you believe students are more likely to cheat?

Survey says – 131 Respondents

What can we do? Awareness Assessment Design Technology Pedagogical Strategies

Awareness Post Academic Integrity Statement Post Copyright Policy Gain student buy-In Include a lesson on plagiarism Test over stated policies

What do you do in your own course to raise awareness?

Assessment Design Limit time and availability on test Randomize Questions Randomize Attempts Require completion in single session Limit results and questions displayed Keep course content current Follow-up with chat exchange to test

knowledge

Do you use Question Sets?

Technology Respondus Lockdown Browser

Limits students ability to navigate elsewhere

Limits ability to Print/Copy Test SafeAssign and Direct Submit

Identifies Matching Text Checks against 4 repositories

What has been your experience with RLDB and SafeAssign?

Pedagogical Strategies Authentic Assessments

Apply to their own life Demonstrate Skill-Set

Nursing Students and video submission Include a variety of assessment types

Alternative Assessments Collaborative with peer-review

Scaffold assignments

What sort of strategies do you employ?

Survey says – 138 Respondents

ResourcesEncourage Academic Honesty Handout. 2008. Blackboard Inc.Best Practices Strategies to Promote Academic Integrity in Online Education. 2009. WCET. http://wcet.wiche.edu/wcet/docs/cigs/studentauthentication/BestPractices.pdf