The Academic Integrity Assessment Guide is the most powerful tool to assist colleges, universities, and secondary schools to assess the climate of academic integrity on their campuses. The guide will help your institution:
- Evaluate its current academic integrity programs and policies
- Assess campus attitudes and conduct in the classroom, the lab, and the exam room.
- Identify areas — from sanctions to educational programs — that need strengthening
- Develop specific plans for improving the adherence to standards of academic honesty.
- Give prominence to a dialogue about academic integrity on your campus.
- Increase the awareness of academic integrity issues among faculty, students, and administrators.
Academic integrity is a fundamental value of teaching, learning and scholarship. Yet there is growing evidence that students are cheating and plagiarizing in record numbers. The Academic Integrity Assessment Guide will help your college or university address this critical issue in a proactive and constructive way.
Guide Contents include:
- Survey instruments for students and faculty. To assure your students absolute and complete confidentiality, and to provide your campus with comparative national norms, CAI Founding President, Professor Donald McCabe of Rutgers University will compile your survey data and provide a customized, confidential report for your campus.
- Guidelines for appointing an academic integrity assessment committee
- Step-by-step instructions for a comprehensive assessment process that includes policies and practices, educational programs and sanctions.
- Suggested assessment and educational activities and questions for focus groups
- Examples of codes, and policies from campuses across the country
- Copies of relevant reading materials and bibliographies
The Academic Integrity Assessment Guide was developed by the Center for Academic Integrity with funding from the John Templeton Foundation. Twelve campuses across the country provided the Center with practical experience, evaluations, and critical feedback on the first edition of the guide. Our deepest thanks to students, faculty, and administrators from Brigham Young University, the University of California – Davis, Duke University, Keene State University, the University of Maryland – College Park, Molloy College, the University of Montana – Missoula, Pueblo Community College, Quinnipiac University, Valparaiso University, Vanderbilt University, and Washington University – St. Louis. The Center is most grateful to the John Templeton Foundation and to these schools.