Academic integrity policy analysis of Alberta and Manitoba colleges

Eaton, Sarah Elaine; Vogt, Lisa; Seeland, Josh; Stoesz, Brenda M.

Academic integrity policy analysis of Alberta and Manitoba colleges

dc.contributor.author	Eaton, Sarah Elaine
dc.contributor.author	Vogt, Lisa
dc.contributor.author	Seeland, Josh
dc.contributor.author	Stoesz, Brenda M.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-26T20:57:51Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-26T20:57:51Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06-01
dc.description.abstract	Dealing with matters related to academic integrity and academic misconduct can be challenging in higher education. As a result, students, educators, administrators, and other higher education professionals look to policy and procedures to help guide them through these complex situations. Policies are often representative of an institution’s culture of academic integrity. For these and other reasons it is therefore important that policies and procedures are reviewed regularly and updated to ensure that they align with current educational expectations and societal context. In this presentation, we share the results from our policy analysis of 16 colleges in the Canadian western provinces of Alberta and Manitoba. Data extraction and analyses were performed using a tool developed based on Bretag et al.’s five core elements of exemplary academic integrity policy. Our results showed inconsistencies in college polices in terms of the intended audience for the documents (e.g., students, faculty, administrators), varying levels of detail, inconsistent definitions, or categories of misconduct (e.g., plagiarism, cheating) and little mention of contract cheating. We compare the results of this study with previous academic integrity policy research in Canada for colleges in Ontario (Stoesz et al., 2019), as well as universities (Miron et al., 2021; Stoesz and Eaton, 2020). We also discuss the recent increase in the use of artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT and GPT-3 and what this could mean in the context of academic integrity policy. We conclude with recommendations for policy reform in the Canadian college context. Our findings may be useful to those working in community colleges and polytechnics. This project is part of a larger project on academic integrity policy in Canada (https://osf.io/n9kwt/ ) Cite as: Eaton, S. E., Vogt, L., Seeland, J., & Stoesz, B. M. (2023). Academic integrity policy analysis of Alberta and Manitoba colleges. Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity (CSAI), Univeristy of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
dc.identifier.citation	Eaton, S. E., Vogt, L., Seeland, J., & Stoesz, B. M. (2023). Academic integrity policy analysis of Alberta and Manitoba colleges. Canadian Symposium on Academic Integrity (CSAI), Univeristy of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116575
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41418
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education	en
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	academic integrity
dc.subject	policy
dc.subject	academic misconduct
dc.subject	academic dishonesty
dc.subject	equity
dc.subject	diversity
dc.subject	inclusion
dc.subject	Canada
dc.subject	higher education
dc.subject	community college
dc.subject	Alberta
dc.subject	Manitoba
dc.title	Academic integrity policy analysis of Alberta and Manitoba colleges
dc.type	Animation
ucalgary.scholar.level	Faculty