By Thomas Tobin, PhD
Academic integrity is not about catching cheaters, no matter how much faculty may have heard this message. It’s about setting clear expectations and reducing the temptation to cheat in the first place. Tobin shares academic-integrity strategies that faculty can apply to tests, quizzes, and assignments in as little as 20 minutes, and assists faculty in determining where to focus efforts and where to safely stop paying attention to dishonest practices (and feel okay about it, too). Learn how to “turn down” the student impulse to act dishonestly through the implementation of some simple but powerful practices based in psychology and neuroscience.
LEARNING GOALS
After this program, participants will be able to:
Design tests and quizzes to elicit honest responses from students
Create assignments that minimize the temptation for learners to act dishonestly
Apply principles of positive psychology and neuroscience to create a climate of academic honesty for individual assessments
TOPICS COVERED
Why students cheat
Offering students practice to eliminate situation-pressures to cheat
Using models to outline expectations
Offering students clear expectations
Designing assessments for academic honesty
Positive psychology strategies that encourage honesty
Neuroscience and academic honesty
