TOPIC 3: Promoting Academic Integrity

Review questions

  • In your organisation, describe how academic integrity issues are prepared, displayed and in what ways do students get to know the accountability principles. Describe in what ways can academic integrity be developed further in your organisation?
  • Describe how plagiarism differs from the fabrication and facilitation of dishonesty.
  • Describe plagiarism and how to prevent it.
  • What specific behaviours indicate the presence or absence of fairness?
  • Plagiarism is a literacy practice that involves social relationships, attitudes, and values as much as it involves rules of citation and students’ texts. As such, students should not be penalised and or punished instead be taught about proper way of writing and citing literature. Describe your views for and against this assertion.
  • Assess the level of academic integrity in your institution and suggest ways that can be used to promote academic integrity
  • Describe steps taken to stop academic dishonest in your institution.
  • Students are copying notes from each other and sometimes not acknowledging literature in which they outsourced information. When asked in most cases, the answer is they feel it is ok! As information is freely plenty in the internet. As academicians in what ways can you support students' understanding of plagiarism and its consequences to them, to the institution and to the society at large? To whom is this course intended?
  • Do authors talk about intentional and unintentional plagiarism?
  • How can higher academic institutions discourage academic plagiarism?