Conference presentation
Enabling Academic Integrity through embedded curriculum, pedagogy and an educative approach
National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA) (Adelaide, South Australia, 05/12/2022 - 06/12/2022)
06/12/2022
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Abstract
Academic Integrity (AI) is of growing concern at universities nationally and globally (Birks et al., 2020). It is therefore important students are enculturated in the practice of AI early in their study program (Fudge et al., 2022). Students in Southern Cross University’s enabling program (Preparing for Success Program [PSP]) are introduced to AI principles early in their study program through embedded curriculum and pedagogy which takes an educative approach. Within the foundation unit Managing Your Study (UNIP1001), students complete a module specifically addressing AI and participate in activities which prepare them for assessments and scaffold their understanding of:
• Academic integrity;
• Principles and mechanics of referencing; and
• Academic misconduct practices and strategies to avoid engaging in such practices.
Principles of AI introduced in UNIP1001 are reinforced in other PSP units via in-class activities and embedded online interactive activities which feed into assessments. AI breaches are referred to an automated Academic Integrity Management System (AIMS, introduced across the University in 2021). Referred students receive educative feedback to address their breach and the opportunity to resubmit the assessment concerned.
This study outlines embedded curriculum and pedagogy for PSP students, reviews breach referrals of students to AIMS, and summarises various educative measures to further students’ AI knowledge and practice. This study will be of interest to enabling practitioners seeking to embed and promote AI practice at program level.
Details
- Title
- Enabling Academic Integrity through embedded curriculum, pedagogy and an educative approach
- Creators
- Michael Brickhill - Southern Cross University, SCU College
- Conference
- National Association of Enabling Educators of Australia (NAEEA) (Adelaide, South Australia, 05/12/2022 - 06/12/2022)
- Identifiers
- 991013214213102368
- Academic Unit
- SCU College
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation