Pre-Conference Workshops
Integrity: Our Shared Culture: Build the Conversation with a Pre-Conference Workshop!
Integrity is strengthened when we learn from one another. This year's 2027 ICAI Annual Pre-Conference sessions will be held Thursday, February 25th on the campus of Universidad de Monterrey. Join us!
Building a Culture of Integrity, One Draft at a Time: How Writing Labs Humanize the Writing Process
Dr. Emily C. Perkins, LeMoyne College
As generative AI reshapes higher education, fostering academic integrity requires more than policies and detection tools - it requires reimagining the writing process itself. This interactive workshop explores how writing labs can humanize writing by emphasizing drafting, reflection, collaboration, and feedback. Participants will examine research from an innovative writing lab initiative, explore adaptable strategies that promote authentic learning, and develop practical ideas for cultivating a shared culture of integrity within their own institutional contexts.
Translating Integrity: A Hands-On Lab for Cross-Cultural Instrument Validation
Hasiyat Shihova Ismailovna, Urgench State University
Academic integrity's most trusted survey instruments were written in English, for Anglophone institutions, and carry assumptions that rarely survive translation intact. This hands-on lab draws on a full adaptation of a widely used integrity survey into two additional languages: forward translation, blind back-translation, expert panel validation, ethics review, and proportional sampling across ten faculties. Participants work with real items—running a live translation-and-review cycle, scoring conceptual equivalence against a rubric, diagnosing authentic failure cases, and building a governance checklist for their own context. Monolingual participants gain a sharper view of assumptions they had treated as neutral.
Recalibrating: Improving Your Academic Integrity Policy and Procedures Through Assessment
Dr. Greer Murphy, UC Santa Cruz
Dr. Shaun Lehmann, University of Western Australia
Dr. Courtney Cullen, North Carolina State University
In this workshop, an international team of facilitators will introduce a researched-backed framework for evaluating the effectiveness and impact of campus academic integrity policy and process. After briefly describing how their framework builds on prior research, facilitators will introduce a rubric that is generalizable across various international, institutional campus contexts. Participants will be given time to practice applying the rubric to their own (or a colleague’s) institution. Facilitators and participants will use the rubric as a tool for improving policy, and as a heuristic for clarifying campus cultural and material constraints commonly associated with integrity work.
From Authorship to Evidence of Learning: Rethinking Written Assessment Tasks in the Age of GenAI
Dr. Jennifer Smith, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Dr. Martine Peters, Université du Québec en Outaouais
Tessa Boies, Université du Québec à Rimouski
Written assessment tasks remain central in higher education because they make disciplinary knowledge, argumentation, synthesis, and use of evidence visible (Shitile et al., 2026). Yet GenAI has made it increasingly difficult to treat the final written product as sufficient evidence of student learning and authorship (Williams, 2025). This workshop asks how written assessment tasks can be redesigned to make evidence of learning more visible throughout the writing process. Participants will analyze their own tasks, experience a short GenAI assisted writing and peer feedback cycle, and redesign a task using multiple sources of evidence of learning.
Beyond Detection: Building a Shared Culture of Integrity in the Age of AI
Kyrsti Wyatt, Louisiana State University, A&M
Dr. Jonathan Sanders, Louisiana State University, A&M
Artificial intelligence has reshaped academic integrity and created new challenges for identifying and investigating suspected AI use. Drawing from more than 3,600 AI-related cases reviewed at Louisiana State University, this interactive workshop will provide practical strategies for evaluating evidence, examining writing and version histories, and conducting fair investigations. Through hands-on activities and case scenarios, participants will practice distinguishing indicators from evidence and explore how consistent investigative practices can strengthen a shared culture of integrity.
