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- ItemOpen AccessBuilding Community: Creating Faculty/Staff - Student Partnerships at a Canadian Applied Learning College(Bow Valley College, 2024-04-29) Fergusone, Corrine D.; Toye, Margaret A.; Dyer, FionaBuilding a community of integrity in educational institutions requires the support of all its members (Eaton, 2022). Inspired by Freeman et al. (2014) the students as partners (SaP) movement is one initiative toward building academic integrity community (as cited in Lancaster, 2022). The SaP practice seeks to “engage students and staff as collaborators on teaching and learning endeavours, establishing collegial working relationships based on reciprocity, mutual respect, shared responsibility, and complementary contributions” (Marquis, Black, & Healey, 2017, p. 720). Co-designing and co-facilitating in academic integrity endeavours has the immense potential to promote ownership, autonomy, engagement, and authenticity for learners, conditions that may lead to integrity violations when absent (Bretag et al., 2019). Cultivating partnerships among faculty/staff and students then is intended to prevent academic integrity breaches such as contract cheating (Lancaster, 2022) and other violation behaviours and through relationship building, may positively impact the sense of belonging, wellness, and equity for community members (McNeill, 2022). For institutions such as applied learning colleges the timeframe to engage learners in collaborations toward community building is noticeably short, ranging from 8 to 24 months, and programs are intense. In this poster presentation, learn how one Canadian applied learning college is forming faculty/staff-student partnerships to help build a community to support integrity in the classroom and beyond.
- ItemOpen AccessContract Cheating: A View from Three Calgary Post-Secondary Institutions(2019-05-27) Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Toye, Margaret A.; Chibry, Nancy; Rossi, SilviaA comparative exploration of how contract cheating is addressed at three Calgary post-secondary institutions.
- ItemOpen AccessContract Cheating: An Inter-Institutional Collaborative SoTL Project from Alberta(2018-11-10) Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Toye, Margaret A.; Rossi, Silvia; Chibry, NancyOur project showcases perspectives from three Alberta post-secondary institutions, using a collaborative action research approach to reflect upon and then develop interventions to advance awareness of, and responses to, contract cheating. Contract cheating includes, but is not limited to essay mills, custom writing services, assignment completion services and professional exam takers. Contract cheating also occurs when parents, partners or another student do the work for a learner. In short, contract cheating happens when students have someone else complete academic work on their behalf, but submit their work as if they had done it themselves. Our project is framed as an action research project that extends SoTL beyond the individual classroom to a broader institutional context. Using narratives, observations and reflection-on-action as data sources, we use informal interventions such as hallway conversations and in-class discussions, designed to help both faculty members and students develop greater awareness about what contract cheating is and why it deserves attention from a teaching and learning perspective. We also discuss institutional action, such as taking part in the International Day of Action Against Contract Cheating, as a formal way to raise awareness about contract cheating in higher education more broadly. We conclude with preliminary practical and evidence-informed recommendations for practitioners, educational developers and decision-makers.