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The Pedagogy of Academic Integrity

November 8, 2012


Faculty Development WorkshopColby College

November 8, 2012


November 8, 2012

Recent Incidents

• Harvard – 125 students accused of

collaboration on a take-home final examination

• Stuyvesant High School – 66 students on Regents exam—using

cellphones to text images of the test

• Non-academic contexts – Athletics (performance-enhancing

drugs) – Business (Enron, WorldCom, etc.)– Politics (lobbying and contracts)


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Overview

• National Research• Colby Context• Pedagogical Responses: Case

Studies• Institutional Responses


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National Research

• How many students are cheating?– High school:

• 59% cheated on a test (including 56% of honors students)

• 34% cheated twice or more• 81% copied homework• 34% plagiarized an internet

document• 20% reported cheating at sports

Source: Josephson Institute Center for Youth Ethics—2010 Report Card—40,000 students


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National Research

• How many students are cheating?– College:

• 14% copied from another student on a test• 8% used crib notes during an exam• 30% learned what was on a test by talking with

someone who had already taken it• 42% collaborated on an individual assignment • 38% copied few sentences on a paper• 14% falsified a bibliography• 8% turned in copied work• 7% turned in work done by another• 3% obtained a paper from a paper mill• 65% engaged in one of the forms of cheating

Source: Donald McCabe, Cheating in College (2012)—based on research from 2002-10, 64,000 students


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National Research

• Why do students cheat?– Performance pressure (GPA, parental

expectations)—survival or thriving– Everyone is doing it—need to level the

competitive field– Faculty don’t care—they don’t do anything about

cheating– College is no different than high school– Focus on “getting the work done” rather than on

any learning– Examples of cheating in broader culture– “It’s not that big a deal.”—big gap in perceived

seriousness between students and faculty

Source: Donald McCabe, Cheating in College (2012)—based on research from 2002-10, 64,000 students


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Colby Context


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Reporting: Fall 2007-Fall 2012

semester # of cases

fall 2007 1spring 2008 12




fall 2011 10Jan Plan

2012 4spring 2012 11

fall 2012 2Total 68


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Reporting: Type

By Type

78% plagiarism

9% collaboration

7% cheating

6% other

78% Pla-gia-rism

7% cheat-

ing

9% col-labora-

tion

6% other


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Sanctions

Sanctions 50% failure on assignment25% failure in course

25%

other sanctions (includes partial loss of credit for assignment, zero for one component of overall course grade, 1/3 letter grade reduction, etc.)

4 cases resulted in suspension (3

one semester suspensions, 1 Jan Plan suspension)

# of cases heard by Appeals Board 9

Departments Reporting since fall 2007 19Number of individual faculty reporting since fall 2007

41


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Moving from “Law and Order” to Pedagogy

“Law and order”• Suspects• Witnesses• Evidence• Burden of proof• Rights• Penalties• Permanent record• Trials

Pedagogy

• Students• Teachers• Academic

integrity• Sources• Individual work• Proper attribution• Teachable

moments• Learning• Conversations


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Pedagogical Responses:Case Studies

Things to Consider:• What is the student’s motivation?• How should the faculty member

respond?• What are the messages we want to

communicate?• Could these situations have been

prevented?• Are there implications for the

institution’s response?


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Possible Institutional Responses

• How can we cultivate a culture of academic integrity among our students?

• How can faculty support each other in this effort?

• How can the institution support you in this effort?

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