Collect and analyse academic integrity policies available online, as well as any publicly available statements or reviews of process from all Australian universities.
ALTC Project Stages
Stage 1: What are Australian universities’ policies and procedures for academic integrity breaches?
Stage 2: What responses to breaches of academic integrity are actually implemented in practice?
Collect and analyse academic integrity breach data from the six project partner institutions to determine how universities actually respond to breaches of academic integrity in practice with an aim to identify examples of good practice in responding to breaches of academic integrity as well as instances where inconsistencies between policy and practice might usefully be addressed.
Stage 3: What is good practice in aligning academic integrity policy with teaching and learning strategies?
An important part of this stage in the research will be early dissemination to academic integrity stakeholders in and across our participating universities of the findings from Stages 1 and 2 as a means of stimulating discussion and collegial information exchange. We will do this in relevant committee meetings and emails to key participants. Dissemination will also occur as we undertake interviews and focus groups of academic integrity stakeholders at the six universities represented by the project team to determine good practice in responding to breaches.
Stage 4: How could a culture of academic integrity be more effectively fostered in the current Australian higher education context and what shared understandings can provide a foundation for this culture?
This stage represents the most important and innovative aspect of this project. Having collected and collated data to provide baseline information, and having shared this information with academic integrity stakeholders and gathered and analysed their recommendations for how best to align academic integrity policy and practice, this stage moves towards strengthening Australian universities’ culture of academic integrity. We will do this by developing exemplars of good practice that will clearly demonstrate how universities can coherently and consistently manage academic integrity in a range of specific contexts. The exemplars will be drafted in collaboration with project team members, academic integrity breach decision-makers and experts drawn from our project Reference Group.
Flow chart of project milestones
While the milestones are illustrated as a flowchart, we have constructed this project so that each stage is not dependent on the completion of the previous stage. For example, if for any reason, there is a delay to the completion of Stage 2, this will not prevent the subsequent stages from going ahead.
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