Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity

Is it easy for students to access someone else’s work and claim it as their own? How can I prevent this?

1. Outstanding Academic Integrity

o Students are required to engage in genuine deep learning at a level of challenge appropriate to the student and tasks make provision for sense making or knowledge construction. Assessment is designed to ensure authenticity from students and requires individualised responses.

o Students are well educated as to what constitutes academic integrity as evident in a highly considered Program of Learning. Expectations in regard to plagiarism, assistance by others and referencing are made clear to students. Students declare that work is their own.

o Assessment tasks are not reused.

2. High Academic Integrity

o Academic integrity is discussed with students with expectations with respect to academic integrity and the consequences of cheating or plagiarising made clear.

o Students are informed as to what constitutes academic integrity as evident in a considered Program of Learning.

o Assessment is designed to encourage original thinking from students and require individualised responses that will be different. Expectations in regard to plagiarism, assistance by others and referencing are conveyed to students. Students declare that work is their own.

o Assessment tasks are not wholly reused with important aspects changed.

3. Satisfactory Academic Integrity

o Academic integrity is discussed with students in a general sense as evident in an appropriate Program of Learning.

o Assessment is designed so that a majority of the assessment encourages original thinking from students or requires individualised responses. Expectations in regard to plagiarism, assistance by others and referencing are referred to in the assessment task description. A statement is included in the task description stating that submitted work is declared as own work.

o Assessment tasks have some aspects changed from year to year.

4. Minimal Academic Integrity

o Minimal evidence of academic integrity processes in place.

o Assessment allows for the possibility of identical responses from students. Expectations in regard to plagiarism and referencing are inconsistent or applied inconsistently. The assessment task does not state that submitted work is declared as own work.

o Assessment tasks are largely the same from year to year.

5. No Academic Integrity

o Academic integrity is not mentioned in any documentation.

o Assessment requires identical responses from students.

o Expectations in regard to plagiarism and referencing are not addressed. Students do not make a declaration of own work.

o Assessment tasks are the same from year to year.