Faculty Scholar Project 2015:

Academic Integrity

Project team: Vivienne Brand, Eric Bouvet, Maggie Ivanova, Pam

Bartholomaeus, David Curtis, Tania Leiman, Maria Giannacopoulos

Within Faculty: the Faculty Scholar Project Within Flinders: an idea whose time has

come Wide focus of Flinders definition of AI (picks

up so much more than plagiarism, not always the case elsewhere)

Background to project

Key aims of the project: to explore the possibilities and challenges

associated with improving responses to academic integrity issues,

To understand better what existing approaches are used within the Faculty and how AI concerns vary across the Faculty (and across Schools within the Faculty)

So what was the aim?

Education: Pam Bartholomaeus, David Curtis

Humanities: Maggie Ivanova (Creative Studies), Eric Bouvet

(Languages) Law School:

Tania Leiman (Law), Maria Giannacopolous (Criminology), Vivienne Brand (Faculty Scholar)

Project Team

Academic Integrity website for students, staff, and anyone else:   Links to new University pages with educational

support materials good practice toolkit Policy flow chart

The description of academic integrity for the website: please annotate, amend, comment

Faculty Academic Integrity website

Differences and similarities Differences – ranges of distinctions between

Schools, including in relation to reporting rates

Comparison of AI approaches across the Faculty

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1. Resourcing matters

2. Integration with the curriculum is a good thing

3. Essay mills/commissioned answers are a real threat

Academic integrity and similarities between the 3 Schools

Eric Bouvet and the results of a survey of staff on Academic Integrity matters

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