ABSTRACT

In 2019, the Australian higher education regulator, the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA), commissioned a team of academic integrity experts to design and facilitate a series of national workshops, with the aim of increasing academic integrity knowledge and building a culture of integrity across the higher education sector. As a team, we investigated whether these three-hour workshops would make a measurable difference to workshop participants’ awareness of academic integrity issues and their confidence in their own institutions’ practices. Three hundred and forty-two (342) workshop participants (representing 75.7% of attendees) completed pre-workshop and post-workshop surveys regarding their awareness of academic integrity issues and their confidence in their institutions’ academic integrity practices. Results from the post-workshop surveys showed that the participants expressed significantly increased awareness about the Model Statement of Commitment to Academic Integrity¹ 1 A collaboratively developed statement of commitment to academic integrity, recommended by the Australian Higher Education Standards Panel, and intended for adaptation and use by all Australian higher education providers. This statement was in draft form at the time of the workshops. , Australian and international academic integrity research, and ways to promote academic integrity. In addition, the participants expressed increased confidence in their institutions’ risk-mitigation strategies and staff members’ ability to detect contract cheating. However, these results were moderated by institution size and institution type (university vs. independent higher education provider). The evaluation data indicates that even a short staff development workshop can make a difference to participants’ understanding and knowledge of academic integrity. We conclude that this type of focused and evidence-based professional development can make an important contribution to the development of a culture of academic integrity across the higher education sector, and can provide participants with avenues for subsequent professional development and institutional policy improvement.

摘要

2019年，澳大利亚高等教育监管机构高等教育质量与标准局（TEQSA）委托一组学术诚信专家设计和推动一系列国家研讨会，目的是增加学术诚信知识并树立一种文化氛围。高等教育部门的诚信。作为一个团队，我们调查了这三个小时的讲习班是否将对参加者对学术诚信问题的认识以及他们对自己机构实践的信心产生显着影响。三百四十二（342）名讲习班参与者（占参加者的75.7％）完成了关于他们对学术诚信问题的认识以及他们对院校学术诚信实践的信心的调查前和调查后调查。^1个 1由澳大利亚高等教育标准小组推荐的，由合作开发的对学术诚信承诺的声明，旨在供所有澳大利亚高等教育提供者改编和使用。讲习班召开时，该声明为草案形式。 ，澳大利亚和国际学术诚信研究，以及促进学术诚信的方法。此外，与会人员对自己机构的风险缓解策略和员工发现合同作弊的能力也增加了信心。但是，这些结果受到机构规模和机构类型（大学与独立高等教育机构）的影响。评估数据表明，即使是短暂的员工发展研讨会也可以改变参与者对学术诚信的理解和知识。我们得出的结论是，这种有重点的，基于证据的专业发展可以为整个高等教育部门的学术诚信文化的发展做出重要贡献，