1. The document summarizes a discussion on academic integrity between academics from Navitas. They discuss the key issues of plagiarism, back translation, collusion, and contract cheating. 2. Participants shared experiences and strategies for promoting academic integrity to students. This includes clear policies, educating students on acceptable paraphrasing and referencing, and building strong student-teacher relationships. 3. Effective assessment design can prevent academic misconduct. Assessments should provide clear questions, feedback on drafts, and mark paraphrasing skills rather than just content. Institutions should use text-matching software consistently and have simple processes for contract cheating cases.

1. Navitas Academic Integrity Online World Café
Cara Dinneen – Navitas ELICOS Academic Director
Juliana Kendi – La Trobe Melbourne Director of Studies
Alison Black – Hawthorn-Melbourne e-Learning developer
http://sacsteacher.weebly.com/online-discussions.html
1. Policy and institutional support
2. Teacher and student support strategies
3. Assessment design

2. Rank the following themes in order of importance in your
teaching and learning context.
# Plagiarism
# Back Translation (a form of plagiarism)
# Collusion
# Contract Cheating / Ghostwriting
# Cheating in exams
Are there any more than you would add?
2-minute breakout warmer

3. Feedback from breakout rooms
Feedback
ideas
practice
experience
• Greatest issues reported were back translation, plagiarism,
ghostwriting and contract cheating.
• Harder to prove ghostwriting compared to plagiarism.
• Back translation an issue especially in the international
student context.

4. Google Translate

5. Paraphrasing Tool to paraphrase or rewrite full length essays and articles or to find new
ways to express simple phrases, sentences or single words. https://paraphrasing-tool.com/

6. 5-minute breakout discussion
Scenario: a teacher suspects a student of ghostwriting. The student reveals he has utilized a
range of translation and paraphrasing tools in the preparation of his essay. He believes this is a
perfectly legitimate use of tools available and that he has done nothing wrong.
1. What is your school’s policy on managing this situation?
2. What steps would you take?
3. What penalties would apply?
http://www.sigmaweb.org/ourexpertise/policy-development-coordination.htm

7. Feedback from breakout rooms
Feedback
ideas
practice
experience
• Back translation and paraphrasing not explicitly covered in
policy - it was dealt with reactively, rather than pro-actively.
• Issues of back translation and plagiarism are explicitly
focused on and exemplified in syllabus materials so that
students are very clear about acceptable and unacceptable
behaviour.
• Educative approach: Students given warnings as incidences
of plagiarism seen as teaching opportunities.
• When there are no particular policies at a college, problems
are encountered as teachers have different opinions of what
is considered serious.

8. Teacher & student support strategies:
3 main categories
TEQSA (2017) states that providers need to ‘take a holistic approach
TEQSA (2017) states that providers need to ‘take a holistic approach
to academic integrity
Today, we will consider academic integrity and teacher & student
support strategies under three main categories:
1. Promoting
2. Preventing
3. Managing

9. Teacher & student support 3 main strategies:
TEQSA examples of best practice
Promoting: TEQSA (2017) asserts best practice is
‘consistent academic integrity education for both staff
and students’
Preventing: TEQSA (2017) states that
‘text-matching software to be used consistently for both education
and detection’
Managing: TEQSA (2017) suggests that institutions
‘create a simple process for referring contract cheating cases’

10. Promotion of Academic Integrity: Teachers & Students
TEQSA (2017, p.14)

11. Teacher & students: raising awareness
Discussion: 5 minutes
Discussion question:
What does your college do to promote academic integrity at
to teachers and students?

12. Feedback from breakout rooms
Feedback
ideas
practice
experience
• Academic integrity is promoted at orientation days and within the
classroom with paraphrasing and referencing activities.
• Shared resources allow teachers and students to share an understanding
of the policy. This means dealing with plagiarism is no longer at the
discretion of individual teachers.
• Paraphrasing is seen as one of the more difficult skills for students. More
time should be spent on this in class.
• Academic integrity is something spoken about a lot amongst teachers -
discussing their experiences and how to best manage it.
• Academic integrity could be dealt with more in PD.
• Interest in more innovative resources to engage students in academic
integrity e.g. Alison Black’s ‘Jump into AI’ activity
(https://vimeo.com/275008600)
• Academic integrity promoted by putting posters around the college.
• Promoting academic integrity to distant learning students can be
challenging.

13. Teacher & student support strategies:
Clearly (2012) states that
‘Students are less likely to plagiarize if they feel
connected to a school through bonding with fellow
students and teachers’.

14. Teacher & student support strategies:
Bretag et al. (2018) suggest that to reduce contract cheating
1. Establish ‘strong student teacher relationships’
2. Create curriculum and assessment that lessens the likelihood of
cheating
3. ‘address the…language and learning needs’ of students

15. Assessment Design
– Promotion, Prevention, Management
Allow Ss to choose a topic based on a theme but make sure it is not too general
( i.e. found on the internet) (Clearly, 2012)
Ensure Ss are able to understand the question – allow in class time to unpack &
understand assignments.
Allow Ss time to respond to feedback and redraft assignments.
Use Turnitin as an educative tool. i.e. include workshops in class on how to use
the originality report to better paraphrase ideas and / or acknowledge sources.

16. Example Marking Criteria

17. 5-minute breakout discussion
The marking criteria shown above is designed to reward skill
development and allow for errors with paraphrasing for research
assignments.
1. How does the marking criteria in your Centre prevent breaches
of Academic Integrity?

18. Feedback from breakout rooms
Feedback
ideas
practice
experience
• Acknowledgment and documentation of student progress to be included in the
marking criteria. This can help improve the student-teacher relationship and
therefore lessen the likelihood of cheating.
• Ample time and feedback given for drafts to allow students to properly go
through the learning process.
• Different marking criteria for different assignments; in-class and research
assignments. Some assignments are graded on academic conventions such as
referencing and paraphrasing, while others are not.

19. Closing points
Contract cheating and assessment design (2017)

20. Closing points
Contract cheating and assessment design (2018)

21. Resources: Navitas Learning and Teaching
https://learningandteaching-navitas.com/articles/lt-frameworks-academic-integrity/?_sf_s=academic+integrity

22. Reference List
• Bretag, T., Harper, R., Burton, M., Ellis, C., Newton, P., Rozenberg, P., Saddiqui, S., & van Haeringe, K., (2018)
“Contract cheating: a survey of Australian university students, Studies in Higher Education”, Retrieved from
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2018.1462788
• Cleary, M. N. (2012). “Top Ten Reasons Students Plagiarize & What You Can Do About It (with apologies to David
Letterman)”. [PDF file]. Retrieved from https://offices.depaul.edu/oaa/faculty-resources/teaching/academic-
integrity/Documents/TopTenReasonsStudentsPlagiarize2012.pdf
• Contract cheating and assessment design (2017). “Preliminary findings from a survey of students and staff in
Australian higher education”. Retrieved from https://sitemockupsite.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/2017-
infographic.pdf
• Contract cheating and assessment design (2018). “Additional Findings from a Survey of Students and Staff at
Australian Universities”. Retrieved from https://sitemockupsite.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/2018-
infographic.pdf
• Learning & Teaching at Navitas, “L & T Framework: Academic Integrity”, (2018). Retrieved from:
https://learningandteaching-navitas.com/articles/lt-frameworks-academic-integrity/?_sf_s=academic+integrity
• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency, “Good Practice Note: Addressing contract cheating to
safeguard academic integrity “, October 2017. Retrieved from
https://www.teqsa.gov.au/sites/g/files/net2046/f/good-practice-note-addressing-contract-cheating.pdf