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Sophia. Human and Religious Studies Bulletin

The increase in scientific knowledge in the world requires effective methods and mechanisms to improve educational pro- cess and scientific activity, first of all, to protect the intellectual property rights of its participants. There is a problem of understanding the essence of "Academic Integrity" as a specific safety guard in the field of assessing the honesty of scientists and the reliability of the results of their research. Conduct a philosophical and legal analysis of the main characteristics of the concept of "Academic Integrity". Was used the axiological approach as a way of cognition of philosophical and legal phenomena, as well as: system analysis, pragmatic approach and structural-functional analysis in opening the role, hierarchy and functional manifestations of the phenomenon of "Academic Integrity". Provided the author's definition of the concept of "Academic Integrity": 1) a special methodological procedure that ensures the...

2018

This report serves as a basis to further common understanding on academic integrity through learning new terms and rediscovering old terms in new contexts. The need for this document derives from the variety of terms that are commonly used, but under different contexts. In this sense, we attempted to arrive at a common meaning. This report could be of value to national ombudspersons, judicial authorities, compliance officers, research project managers and other related bodies or units in academia as well as students, business sector and others.

This report serves as a basis to further common understanding on academic integrity through learning new terms and rediscovering old terms in new contexts. The need for this document derives from the variety of terms that are commonly used, but under different contexts. In this sense, we attempted to arrive at a common meaning. This report could be of value to national ombudspersons, judicial authorities, compliance officers, research project managers and other related bodies or units in academia as well as students, business sector and others.

Fundamentals of Academic Integrity: The Need of Hours , 2023

Academic integrity is an important aspect that must be considered in the present era of academia in order to give fair and fact-based findings. Because we now have a treasure of knowledge, academic integrity has become a prominent topic in order to tackle concerns such as plagiarism, results authenticity, the use of artificial intelligence, fabricated data, and intellectual theft. Plagiarism checkers, like Turnitin, have been developed to address these challenges, but it is also the duty of researchers and institutions to ensure academic integrity. Everyone has a moral obligation to follow academic writing norms and contribute to society by carrying out novel studies rather than exploiting someone else's ideas. It is the most effective approach a community can take to retain and safeguard its academic integrity.

Journal of College Student Development, 2011

The Professional Medical Journal, 2016

Academic misconduct is a serious and a common problem. The aim of this articleis to review the literature for different methods used to counteract this problem. My synthesisis that the use of these mechanical methods of detecting and deterring dishonesty leads toa climate of us versus them between students and faculty and to an environment of policesrather than a culture of integrity. Moral development can be integrated into curriculum throughprofessional ethics courses with the purpose to develop academic integrity.

2017

Clear definitions of terms related to academic integrity help to resolve difficulties arising from academic dishonesty. However, in practice the interpretation of these terms makes investigation of dishonest behaviour rather difficult. Naturally, there are more terms relating to academic misconduct than to academic conduct. Within the frame of definitions of academic integrity and related terms, this paper presents the Erasmus Plus project 'European Network for Academic Integrity'; particularly one of its sub-outputs concerning the construction of a glossary. The glossary of academic integrity and related terms is based on a variety of credible sources, varying from documents issued by reputable international organisations to research papers where empirical data reveal academic misconduct related practices and cite real-life examples. The latter source enriches the glossary with terms on very specific deviations, and demonstrates the range of misconduct that serves to inspire the development of new terms. The aim of creating the glossary is to raise awareness in the matters of plagiarism, academic ethics, scholarly values and academic integrity. The paper discusses reasoning for the development of such a glossary, the process of collecting terms and developing their definitions as well as the first results of this process.

AUQA Occasional …, 2011

As academic integrity is fundamental to assessment practices, it is critical that it is dealt with consistently by staff and taught to students. How a university defines academic integrity in its policy will affect the way it is taught and embedded in the curriculum. While ...

2022

This paper presents a metanalyses on teachers' and students' awareness, their understanding and evaluation of the situation about academic integrity and the proposals to improve the situation in higher education by the experts in the field from different Universities of Latvia. The study is based on the analyses on two previous studies carried out by the team of researchers of Daugavpils University, Latvia. The first study was focusing on the awareness of social science teachers about academic integrity in regional higher education institutions in Latvia. This study included in depth exploration of the awareness of teachers, their conceptual understanding, evaluation of academic integrity among students and teachers, the analyses of the most frequent barriers to academic integrity among students and teachers, as well as the evaluation of communication of academic integrity politics in higher education. While the first study examines academicians perspectives and focuses on policies and procedures of academic integrity in higher institutions (HI), and whether the current policies and procedures are satisfactory as evaluated by the academic staff members to prevent plagiarism among students and staff members in higher education institutions, the other study was focusing on students' perspectives, their awareness and understanding about academic integrity in regional higher education institutions in Latvia. The questions were related to their awareness of academic integrity, evaluation of the politics about academic integrity and its implementation in higher education, as well as ways how to promote academic integrity in their institution. The current study offers meta evaluation of the situation based on the research findings of two previous studies by the experts in the field. The methodology employed in this study involves semi-structured interviews with three experts in the field about the situation with the academic integrity in the regional higher education institutions of Latvia. This paper contributes to the existing debate of academic integrity and how universities can respond to this emergent concern.

Advances in Higher Education and Professional Development

Academic dishonesty can come in a variety of forms. Hence, there is a need for academics to stay abreast of the many and varied methods of cheating, and potentially, utilize an array of prevention and detection strategies in 'combination'. This very dynamics of academic dishonesty, fails the very purpose of education, Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and educational systems. If learners engage in academic dishonesty or malpractice either intentionally or unintentionally; it not only retards the learning and development, but more important raises questions on Academic Integrity (AI) of HEIs on which the whole edifice of educational process rests. Through grounded research, an in-depth literature review, deep observation, and being a part of HE for nearly two decades, this chapter delves into the causes of academic dishonesty. The focus is on the need and mechanism to institutionalize polices for AI, which the present hour demands.