Learning Teaching Office LTO Forum ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 15
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Learning & Teaching Office (LTO) Forum: ACADEMIC INTEGRITY 15 March 2016 AESC Humbly Teaching Honesty Chris Kitching University of Notre Dame (Sydney) Australia AESC Associate Lecturer/Tutor and Ph. D candidate
Introducing students to Tertiary education o Introduces them to their professions & vocations within higher education (HE) o AESC Units content focus Academic writing, literacy competency (visual, digital), mathematical competencies, Information technologies & literacy, research skills o AESC Assessment Tasks Approach: variety of styles and formats of tertiary assessment task design precludes plagiarism …Teaching tertiary learning skills & competencies
Importance of Academic Honesty o Examples within our Units: o 1. How do we detect Academic Dishonesty and how deal with it One case in ‘EP 003 Academic Writing’ – focus on text types, essay, report o ‘Ghost writing’ – could not PROVE to the student they did not write it. Although quality content, structure, writing skills did not match previous or subsequent submissions Accepted task – as one part of overall assessment Strategies in our Units: ‘Referencing’ – focus on purpose, styles & formats o ‘Referencing’ - demonstrate new skills, suitability & understanding of HE environment - fulfilment of Assessment requirements
Strategies to reduce Plagiarism o Examples within our Units: 2. Strategies we have tried in class to reduce plagiarism Example: ‘EP 002 Literacy Competency’ 1. visual text analysis of advertisement/poster to self-annotate for ‘visual literacy techniques’ 2. Group project emphasises individual and group accountability for creating elements Example: ‘EP 003 Academic Writing’ 1. modelling with annotations, and include explanation of generic structure and language features of texts 2. Progress drafts sighted & initialled in tutorials with feedback
2. Strategies to reduce Plagiarism o Examples within our Units: 2. Strategies we have tried in class to reduce plagiarism Example: ‘EP 003 Academic Writing’ 1. Tasks set around specific texts (journal article) not topics 2. Tasks to compare/contrast how author deals with X) not a summarise or discussion essay (reduce internet use) 3. Topic discussion essay using Turnitin (S 12016) Example: ‘EP 004 Research Skills’ 1. research paper on selected & approved topic 2. each task of process – proposal, annotated bibliography 2. requisite learning outcome: demonstrate citation & referencing style use and competency, built into assessment rubric 3. Research Paper submission using Turnitin (S 12016)
