WCET Annual Meeting Presentation

1. Reimagining
Academic Integrity
Gary Brown
Elizabeth Mulherrin
Matthew Prineas

2. Academic Integrity is Complex
Curriculum
Institutional
and
Culture
Assessment
External
Technology
Pressures
Academic
Integrity

3. Traditional Approaches to
Academic Integrity
Policing Prevention
• Policy and •Instruction
procedures •Tutorials
• Anti-plagiarism •Anti-plagiarism
software software
• Honor codes •Honor codes

4. Traditional Approaches to AI were designed
for the Analog Assessment
Analog Digital
Assessment Assessment
Limited, high-stakes Frequent, varied
opportunities for opportunities for
assessment assessment
Feedback: Feedback:
comprehensive, but outcomes-specific,
infrequent and slow frequent, fast

5. Emerging Environment for Assessment,
Feedback, and Learning
Proliferating opportunities for learning beyond the classroom
• Open Educational Resources (MOOCs, etc.)
• Competency-based learning (prior learning, etc.)
• Badges and alternative certifications
Assessment increasingly embedded in process of learning (rather than
separated between “study” and “exams”
• Learner analytics
• Realtime feedback for learners and instructors
• Adaptive or dynamic learning / mastery learning (e.g., OLI, Khan Academy)
Proliferation of data on student performance and behavior
• Data mining and predictive modeling
• “Authentication” increasingly built in to process of teaching and learning online

6. Redefining Academic Integrity for the
Emerging Learning Environment
• Academic integrity = demonstrated student
learning
• Designed for digital assessment
• Focused on mastery of learning outcomes
• Integration and alignment of learning and
academic integrity

7. Emergent Models
• Your record of learning is who you are
• Reflects changes over time with a dynamic
record of learning (analytics, eportfolio)
• Ongoing application of learning and collected
artifacts, informal and formal (badges,
certifications)
• More collective and less individual learning
(MOOCs, peer networks)
• Engagement in learning is form of assessment

8. Competing Pressures
Legacy approaches Emerging approaches
• Regulatory pressures • Open learning resources
• Demand for alternate certification • Proliferation of digital assessment
and high-stakes testing • Explosion of data on learners
• Institutional culture / resistance • Fast, frequent, continuous
to change assessment and feedback
• Faculty expectations • Needs of adult learners

9. Discussion
• What else is on the horizon that will redefine institutional
approaches to academic integrity?
• What are some of the challenges to creating an approach to
academic integrity that focuses on assessing the whole
student?
• How can an organization like WCET help?