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Strategies for fostering academic integrity in the classroom
Author(s) -
Parente Amy,
Roecklein-Canfield Jennifer
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.2020.34.s1.07239
Subject(s) - cheating , academic integrity , presentation (obstetrics) , academic institution , perspective (graphical) , institution , academic dishonesty , psychology , medical education , pedagogy , sociology , computer science , social psychology , medicine , social science , artificial intelligence , library science , radiology
Academic integrity can be defined in many ways and can have different implications and applications from both the student and instructor perspective. Following a pilot study gathering data from the authors’ host institutions, data was gathered from faculty attending the summer 2019 ASBMB Transforming Education meeting during a “living poster” presentation on the topic. Specifically, the authors asked questions probing faculty knowledge about cultural norms at their institution surrounding academic integrity and what they perceived were their biggest challenges in the classroom. Faculty responses focused on understanding motivations for student cheating, sharing real‐world examples of unethical behavior with students, and determining strategies for mitigating cheating. These observations led to the development of a survey distributed across the STEM community, from which the data will be used to generate a reference of best practices for fostering academic integrity in the science classroom.