There are many ways that academic integrity can have consequences in our everyday lives. Fabricated, falsified, or misrepresentative data can create devastating effects on public policy, business practices, and scholarship in our academic communities. Unfortunately, careful consideration of such matters is often rare in most pre-college education: Read more about Designing Courses for Academic Integrity
While many dismiss the act of academic dishonesty with a simplistic: “Students cheat because they are lazy” or “Cheating is easier than working hard to succeed,” the issue of academic dishonesty proves as nuanced as it is persistent. Read more about Why Do Students Cheat?
It’s happened. You observe a student cheating on an exam. Or, you’ve identified that the student has committed plagiarism. What do you say to that student? What is your role in handling this situation? Read more about When You Catch a Student Cheating: A Guide
Convincing students that academic writing and research is significant to their lives is not always easy. Further, in a highly digital world with increasingly digitized libraries, journals, newspapers, and other research sources, traditional book-based research may seem outdated and irrelevant to them. While this may be disappointing for many instructors, it is important to understand how students, especially millennials, might see scholarship in the context of the digital age. To understand this context, let’s look at an example: the remix. Read more about “Remixing” Teaching Plagiarism in the Digital Age
Producing quality academic scholarship requires at least three important stages for successful student time-management. Read more about Face-Time, Make-Time, Take-Time: A Model for Teaching Academic Integrity
Most researchers agree that proactive strategies are far more effective at curbing academic dishonesty than punitive policies alone. Sometimes one of the best proactive strategies can be a classroom discussion (whether in a virtual discussion board or face-to-face) because it provides an opportunity for students to more fully comprehend, reflect, and question the potentially hazardous consequences of academic dishonesty. Read more about Discussing Academic Integrity with Students
UNT has numerous sources and resources committed to helping cultivate student academic success. Although academic integrity is ultimately the responsibility of the student, differences in disciplinary expectations necessitates that instructors reinforce academic integrity practices. Awareness of available student programs and needed assistance can help students further avoid risk of academic dishonesty. Keep in mind that because of the sad fact that not all students are educated equally, our most “at-risk” students often need extra guidance and mentoring. We have divided these resources into two categories: those for instructors and those for students. Read more about Academic Integrity: A UNT Resource Guide
In this article, we provide an overview of the definitions and types of academic integrity and academic dishonesty per the University of North Texas’s Academic Integrity Policy. Read more about Academic Integrity: A Primer
This guide is designed as a resource for helping instructors promote, encourage, and cultivate a culture of academic integrity in their classrooms. The guide contains a list of questions and/or prompts that can be utilized in the classroom (whether face-to-face or virtual) in multiple ways in order to assist students in understanding the importance of academic integrity and the different types of academic dishonesty. Read more about Academic Integrity: A Classroom Activity Guide
In this article, we provide tips and strategies for preventing and detecting academic dishonesty in online classes and/or classes where instructors use educational technologies to assess student learning. Read more about Academic Dishonesty in Online Courses: Tips & Strategies
