Tag: academic integrity

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PACE Community of Practice: Principles-based thinking to guide decision-making for research ethics & PACE

The updated National Statement and the Australian Code are guidance documents setting out principles for research ethics and integrity. How can we use these documents to guide ethical research practice and governance in the PACE program?

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Want to reduce plagiarism among your students? Get them to play this game!

Educators can use gamification to keep students motivated when delivering potentially dry content: check out Amanda's academic integrity boardgame!

/ 28 March, 2019
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The New Academic Integrity Module: Shining The Spotlight On Principles And Practice

The new Academic Integrity Policy encourages all students and staff to complete the Academic Integrity Module. This new module takes around one hour to work through and builds awareness of academic integrity principles and practice at Macquarie.

/ 31 July, 2018

Requesting And Managing Requests To View Turnitin Papers

Are you ever marking a paper that has a similarity overlap with another paper? Or have you ever received an email from someone else wanting to view a paper submitted to your unit? Here's some guidance on what to do.

/ 31 May, 2018
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5 Practical Ideas To Prevent Ghostwriting

In response to Rebecca's great article on Contract Cheating and this week's Academic Integrity workshops, I reflect on why students are drawn to ghostwriting and, most importantly, what we can do about it.

/ 2 May, 2018
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Let’s Talk…. About Contract Cheating

What is it, how can you tell if an assignment has been written by one of these services and what can be done to combat it?

/ 24 April, 2018
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Academic Integrity Workshops

With the launch of the new Academic Integrity Policy, each faculty is running workshops introducing the policy and its application.

/ 11 April, 2018
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Academic Senate Top 5, February 2018

Including a Senate Member Survey, the Annual Report, policy updates and a presentation from Faculty of Science and Engineering Executive Dean.

/ 1 March, 2018
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Invitation To Provide Feedback On The Draft Academic Integrity Policy

A draft Academic Integrity Policy and supporting Schedules have been developed and following consultation and approval, will replace the existing Academic Honesty Policy.

/ 14 December, 2017