Handbook of academic integrity / editors, Tracey Ann Bretag.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bretag, Tracey, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education, Higher--Moral and ethical aspects.

Education, Higher.

Cheating (Education).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

Springer Nature Living Reference

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, [2015]

Summary:

"Updated content will continue to be published as 'Living Reference Works'"--Publisher

Contents:

1. Defining academic integrity

a. North American perspectives

b. Australian perspective

c. UK perspective

d. European perspective

e. Asia

f. Nigeria

2. Breaches of academic integrity

a. Plagiarism

b. Exam cheating

c. Cheating in online assessment

d. Collusion

e. Falsification of data

f. Falsification of academic documents

g. Commissioning work

h. Other

3. Contextual factors

a. Commericalisation and marketization of higher education

b. Massification of higher education

c. Corruption in higher education

d. Generation X

e. Internationalisation

f. Dumbing down; soft marking

g. Poor assessment design

h. Student motivation

4. Academic Integrity Policy and practice

a. Recommendations for good practice

b. Exemplary Academic Integrity Policy

c. Educational responses

d. Holistic approach

e. Supporting secondary school students

f. Teaching academic integrity in Elementary School

5. Plagiarism in higher education: An academic literacies issue?

a. Plagiarism or patch-writing?

b. International EAL students

c. Educationally 'less prepared students

d. First in Family students

e. The role of bridging and foundation courses

f. Best practice for supporting student understanding

6. Academic Integrity in the digital age

a. Is plagiarism on the rise?

b. How has the Internet changed the landscape of academic integrity?

c. New technologies to help detect plagiarism

d. Is education playing catch up?

7. Disciplinary approaches to academic integrity

a. Humanities and social sciences

b. Creative arts

c. Law

d. Mathematics

e. Medicine

f. Business

8. Integrity in the postgraduate arena

a. Postgraduate coursework

b. Postgraduate research

c. Human research ethics

d. Research education training

e. Postgraduate supervision

f. Academic and professional integrity

9. Academic integrity for established researchers

a. C odes of Conduct

b. Committee on Publication Ethics

c. Questionable research practices

d. Hunting down plagiarists in Europe

e. Impact of international scandals

g. Medical and scientific fraud

10. Creating the ethical academy

a. A systems approach

b. Honour Codes in the US

c. Can Honour Codes work in Australia?

d. Getting political.

Notes:

Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 24, 2019).

ISBN:

9789812870797

9812870792

OCLC:

1106163007

Publisher Number:

10.1007/978-981-287-

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.