Promoting AI in Teaching

Teaching practices that foster academic integrity are important in setting the right tone for encouraging positive student behaviour. The following resources outline some good practices in teaching that will facilitate this:

Teaching Practices

• The Faculty Role in Stopping Cheating (Inside Higher Ed):
  An article that emphasizes the importance of faculty's role in students' academics.
  
  
• Teaching Practices that Promote Academic Integrity and Academic Excellence (American University)
  Outline of teaching practices that promote integrity, cultivate excellence and prevent dishonesty. (PDF)
  
  
• Encouraging Academic Integrity in Your Courses (University of Waterloo):
  A list of common AI issues that instructors encounter when teaching and how to deal with them.
  
  
• Anti-Plagiarism Strategies for Research Papers (Robert Harris)
  A comprehensive guide for instructors in preventing academic dishonesty and educating students about integrity in their work.

Students' Rationale Behind Cheating

Understanding students' rationale behind cheating also allows instructors to pinpoint areas to focus on:

• Many students say cheating is OK (CNN US)
  A survey on students' perspectives on cheating and the rationalization behind it.
  
  
• Why students plagiarize (University of Alberta)
  Focus on academic, external and cultural factors that influence students to plagiarize.
  
  
• Why do some students cheat? (Iowa State University)
  A summary of research done by ISU outlines the types of rationalization students use to justify cheating.

• Academic Dishonesty (Minnesota State University)
  An article that outlines results of research done on why students cheat, with respect to gender, GPA, fraternities/sororities, and years in school.