Transcript Getting to Know the - LOEX Annual Conference

9,000 Freshmen,
One Common Foundation:
Academic Integrity
Joe Buenker,
Leslee Shell & Julie Tharp
LOEX 36th National Conference
Academic Integrity @ ASU
• Spring/Summer 2007:
ASU Libraries developed
an academic integrity
module for the new ASU
101 course
• ASU 101
– freshman-level
– mandatory course
ASU Campuses
• 4 campuses
• 8 libraries
• 60,000+ students
“One University in Many Places”
• Increasingly students take courses on two or
more campuses over ASU career
• Single university accreditation
• Single university governance/Senate
• Increased collaboration
Unified Curriculum
ASU 101 vs.
FYE University Success Course
FYE:
• Coordinated by University Academic Success Program
• Taught by graduate students
• Not required for all freshmen
• Colleges not participating have little or no awareness of course
content
ASU 101:
• Coordinated by the University Provost’s Office
• Taught by administrators, faculty and advisors
• Required of 9,000+ freshmen
• All colleges and departments participate
How We Got Involved
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Task force: curriculum planning
Model syllabus
Expert teams
Instructional design support
Academic Integrity
Expert Team
• 2 librarians from Tempe campus
• 3 librarians from West campus
• 1 instructional designer
• 2 month timeline
• Weekly meetings
Structure of ASU 101
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Hybrid format
5 week course
1.5 hours/week in-class time
Administered through Blackboard
ASU 101: Module Standards
• For continuity, each module must have:
– Introductory activity that facilitates learning
– “Overview”
• PowerPoint and Macromedia Breeze narration
– Discussion board questions
– Assessment / quiz
Academic Integrity
Issues in Higher Education
• Not a new phenomenon
• Different findings regarding prevalence and
frequency
• Not just plagiarism
• Large body of literature
• Relies on self-reported behavior
Large-Scale Surveying
• Prof. Donald McCabe of
Rutgers
• Center for Academic
Integrity (Clemson U)
• 80,000+ students and
12,000+ faculty
• 83 American and Canadian
institutions
(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)
Academic Dishonesty Over Time
• Serious test cheating
• Serious cheating on
written work
• All cheating
(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)
1963
1993
39%
65%
64%
66%
75%
82%
Factors at Play
• Students:
– behaviors determines frequency of misconduct
• Faculty:
– behaviors can deter misconduct (use of plagiarism detection
tools, use of proctors during exams, etc.)
• Institutional Culture:
– Student Code of Conduct
– Honor Code
(Hard, Conway and Moran 2006)
Why Do Students Cheat?
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Ignorance
Not invested in learning
Situational ethics
Low risk of detection
(Auer and Kupar, 2001)
What Students Say
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Time pressures (stress)
Ease of cut-and-paste plagiarism
Low risk of detection
Dislike for the class or professor
(Lester and Diekhoff, 2002)
• Peer behavior (situational ethics)
(McCabe, Trevino and Butterfield, 2001)
Who Cheats?
• High school students cheat at higher rate.
• Majority of high school cheater continue to
cheat in college.
• Cheating is more widespread at larger
university campuses.
• High cheating rates among sororities /
fraternities and college athletics.
(Miller, Murdock, Anderman and Poindexter 2007)
Major U.S. Plagiarism Studies I
• College students and print sources
1964 = 43%
(Bowers)
2003 = 40%
(Hansen)
Major U.S. Plagiarism Studies II
• High school students and print sources
1985 (California)
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51%
1989 (Georgia)
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76%
• Internet Plagiarism
2001 (high school)
2003 (college)
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52%
38%
(Hansen 2003)
Blackboard Module
Narrated PowerPoint (Breeze)
• https://www.asu.edu/courses/asu101/breeze/
academic_integrity_intro/index.htm
Academic Honesty /
Dishonesty Survey
• ACTIVITY: Decide if the behaviors
described in the scenarios are honest or
dishonest
Secondary Learning Objective:
Avoiding Plagiarism
• Avoiding plagiarism handout
• Test your understanding
• Discussion
ASU 101 Evaluations:
W.P. Carey College of Business
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Discovering Campus Resources and Academic Advising:
Very, Somewhat Helpful – 83% Not Helpful – 16% No Response – 1%
• Academic Success / Integrity:
Very, Somewhat Helpful -79% Not Helpful – 20%
No Response -1%
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Getting Involved on Campus:
Very, Somewhat Helpful – 77% Not Helpful – 22% No Response – 1%
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Managing Time Effectively, Study Skills:
Very, Somewhat Helpful – 73% Not Helpful – 22% No Response – 5%
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Stress Management:
Very, Somewhat Helpful – 66% Not Helpful – 27% No Response – 7%
Next Steps:
Library Module 2 for ASU 101
• 3 librarians and 1 instructional designer
currently developing a second module
• Focus of Module:
– Locations, services and collections of ASU Libraries
– Relevance and importance of academic libraries in
the Google Era
References I
• Auer, N.J. & Kupar, E.M. (2001). Mouse click plagiarism: The
role of technology in combating plagiarism and the librarian’s
role in combating it. Library Trends, 49(3): 415-432.
• Hansen, B. (2003). Combating plagiarism. CQ Researcher,
13(2): 773-796.
• Hard, S.F., Conway, J.M., & Moran, A.C. (2006). Faculty and
student beliefs about the frequency of student academic
misconduct. The Journal of Higher Education, 77(6): 10581080.
• Lester, M.C. & Diekhoff, G.M. (2002). A comparison of
traditional and Internet cheaters. Journal of College Student
Development, 43(6): 906-911.
References II
• McCabe, D.L., Trevino, L.K., & Butterfield, K.D. (2001).
Cheating in academic institutions: A decade of research.
Ethics and Behavior, 11(3): 219-232.
• Miller, A.D., Murdock, T.B., Anderman, E.M. and
Poindexter, A.L. (2007). Who are all these cheaters?
Characteristics of academically dishonest students (pp. 9-32).
In Anderman and Murdock.
Recommended Sources
• Anderman, E.M., & Murdock, T.B. (eds.). (2007). Psychology of
academic cheating. Amsterdam; Boston: Elsevier Academic Press.
http://www.elsevierdirect.com/product.jsp?isbn=9780123725417
• ASU Libraries. Academic integrity & plagiarism.
http://library.west.asu.edu/refguides/integrity/
• The Center for Academic Integrity, Rutland Institute for Ethics,
Clemson University. http://www.academicintegrity.org/
• Stern, L. (2007). What every student should know about avoiding
plagiarism. New York: Pearson/Longman.
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,,0321446895,00%2benUSS_01DBC.html
Questions?