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Update : Activities to help Designing out Academic Misconduct

Update : Activities to help Designing out Academic Misconduct. Deborah Trayhurn Academic Advisor Learning & Teaching Support. Academic Misconduct Activities Designing out …. Campaigns students and staff, Staff awareness raising Guidelines for Good Assessment Practice

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Update : Activities to help Designing out Academic Misconduct

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  1. Update : Activities to help Designing out Academic Misconduct Deborah Trayhurn Academic Advisor Learning & Teaching Support Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

  2. Academic Misconduct Activities Designing out … • Campaigns students and staff, Staff awareness raising • Guidelines for Good Assessment Practice • stated focus : students have opportunity to develop understanding and develop skills in academic practice • design Assessment Practices resistant to plagiarism • change module assessment regularly and avoid setting tasks which may be quickly downloaded … • create an environment which stresses and promotes student engagement in the learning process Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

  3. Academic Misconduct Activities Designing out contd… • Programme responsibilities – assessments ‘fit’ • scheduling; understanding of importance and integration of the task set; opportunity to develop skills and confidence; chance to discuss the materials and assessments set; clear understanding of expectations of UK and NU practices for the academic world • underpinned by Information literacy programme and • Learning climate which fosters integrity Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

  4. Academic Misconduct : Learning climate fosters integrity • use of electronic submission of assignments • use of detection strategies • using work in progress for discussion with students; use working papers in assignment hand-in; variety methods such as presentations in assessment; vivas as mandatory elements for large pieces of work; technical support to review assignments increase understanding of importance and integration of the task set Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

  5. Case Study Dissertation & Research Methods School practice •  Modules work to embed awareness • Formative exercise undertaken in Research methods: Proposal reviewing OR with supervisors or the module tutors, who provide advice on remedial action.  * • Information Specialist talk/exercises ‘Plagiarism and how to avoid it’. • Students required to submit their whole projects to the PDS prior to submission.  Offered two ‘revision’ submissions before final.  * • Require submission summative work to TurnitinUK Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

  6. Regulations & AMBeR survey • AMBER survey part 1 outcomes : Northumbria mature Regulatory framework, some additions made: • Student own re-use of materials • 3.2.vThis is the unacknowledged re-submission of work the student had previously submitted for assessment, whether for an award at this University or elsewhere. • 4.1.7 An allegation of academic misconduct may be made at any time after the work has been marked and returned to the student. See also section 4.4.9 • Part 2 examining Regulations in use, await survey outcomes Deborah Trayhurn External Examiners’ Conference

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