2nd Asia-Pacific Educational Integrity Conference

DAY Two - Conference Program, 2 - 5 December 2005


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Keynote address - Dr. Thomas A. Angelo Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)

Treating Educational Integrity as an Academic Challenge: Useful Insights from Research on Learning and Teaching Values

While it is tempting and understandable to treat educational integrity primarily as a legal or administrative problem, such responses may be both inadequate and ultimately damaging to the academic values they seek to protect. In this session, we will consider how cultural values such as educational integrity are learned and taught -- and why they are so resistant to change. Recent research provides potentially useful, if sometimes surprising, insights into students' values and behaviors and suggests guidelines for more effective policy and practice.

Interactive Session - Crossing the Line: The Drama Student's View about Cheating

Gordon Barnhart -University of Saskatchewan, Canada

Taking the Mountain to Mohamed: Transitioning International Graduate Students into Higher Education in Australia

Neera Handa and Wayne Fallon -University of Western Sydney

Implementing plagiarism policy in the internationalised university

Tracey Bretag -University of South Australia

Institutional change to deter student plagiarism: what seems essential to a holistic approach?

Jude Carroll -Oxford Brookes University , Oxford , UK
Fiona Duggan -Plagiarism Advisory Service , UK

NESB and ESB students' attitudes and perceptions of plagiarism

Stephen Marshall and Maryanne Garry -Victoria University of Wellington , New Zealand

Plagiarism in the science classroom: Misunderstandings and models

Lisa Emerson, Bruce MacKay and Malcolm Rees -Massey University , New Zealand

Assessing the Communications and Take Up of Academic Values, Codes and Conventions: an empirical study of a first-year unit for undergraduates

Sandy Darab -Southern Cross University

Student perceptions of the educational quality provided by different delivery modes

Christine Bruff, Alison Dean and John Nolan -The University of Newcastle

Addressing the Wandering Naïve: The design and trial of an online package to inform and educate students of an institution-wide academic integrity policy

Lee Partridge and Beverley McNamara -The University of Western Australia

Are we there yet??

Laurine Hurley -Australian Catholic University

Knowledge Cooperation Between Globalization and Localization: Educational Institute and Community

Kanopporn Wonggarasin, Jongchareon Kumbun and Renu Duangmanee -Rajamagala University of Technology Isan , Thailand

The Construct Of Educational Integrity: Model Coherence, consistency and values

Michael Steer -Renwick College , The University of Newcastle

Interactive Session - Ethical Dilemmas in the Degree Factory

Invited Speakers - Dr. John Atkins, Griffith University , and Dr. William Herfel, University of Western Sydney

Our paper, "Counting Beans in the Degree Factory", examines how material conditions can, and often do, constrain the capacity to act with academic integrity, particularly in the current context of severe resource limitations within Australian higher education. The paper concludes by raising the question of what constitutes ethical action when funds become stretched to the breaking point. In this workshop we explore not just this question, through a set of scenarios drawn from everyday experience within Australian higher education, but also the wider issue of what sort of institution do we want our universities to be. We will examine such issues as: who bears the responsibility for maintaining integrity in a workplace characterised by overwork and severe time restriction; what sort of tradeoffs between integrity and marketability are possible; what strategies are available to short circuit the vicious positive feedback cycle of declining standards and increased workload. The point of the workshop is to raise these issues for general discussion amongst the participants with the aim of canvassing as wide a range of positions as possible.

Panel Discussion - The Authority of Online Distance Education: Who is Really Doing that Assessment Task?

Chaired by Professor William Purcell, with Dr Gordon Barnhart, Professor Thomas Angelo, Simon, Jude Carroll and Dr Michael Hannaford

Thanks

Professor William Purcell, Pro-Vice Chancellor (International), The University of Newcastle