| Title | Our Cheating Hearts: Academic Integrity Curriculum Design in First-Year Arts Programs |
|---|---|
| Faculty/College/Unit | Arts |
| Status | Completed |
| Duration | 3 Years |
| Initiation | 04/01/2017 |
| Completion | 04/30/2020 |
| Funding Details | |
| Year 1: Project Title | Our Cheating Hearts? Changing the Conversation through Academic Integrity Curriculum in First-Year Arts Programs |
| Year 1: Project Year | Year 1 |
| Year 1: Funding Year | 2017/2018 |
| Year 1: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 1: Principal Investigator | Laurie McNeill |
| Year 1: Funded Amount | 63,002 |
| Year 1: Team Members | Laurie McNeill, Sr. Instructor / Chair, First-Year Programs, English, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 1: Summary | In partnership with the Chapman Learning Commons, this project seeks to revise curricula in Arts First-Year Programs (FYP) to better introduce students to academic integrity and its practices, providing them with the framework for understanding ethical scholarship and how to produce it. It expands on a pilot underway for W2016, the goal of which is to design and implement curricular materials in writing courses taught in the three Faculty of Arts First Year Programs: Arts One, the Coordinated Arts Program (CAP), and WRDS 150. This pilot responds to three areas of concern: 1. The lack of coherence in how UBC Arts students are educated about academic integrity; 2. The typical instructional focus on policies and consequences related to academic dishonesty rather than helping students understand academic integrity and why it matters; and 3. The ubiquity of academic dishonesty, which suggests that existing curricula is ineffective. |
| Year 1: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 2: Project Title | Our Cheating Hearts? Changing the Conversation through Academic Integrity Curriculum in First-Year Arts Programs |
| Year 2: Project Year | Year 2 |
| Year 2: Funding Year | 2018/2019 |
| Year 2: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 2: Principal Investigator | Laurie McNeill |
| Year 2: Funded Amount | 44,079 |
| Year 2: Team Members | Laurie McNeill, Sr. Instructor / Chair, First-Year Programs, English, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 2: Summary | Conversations about contemporary problems in higher education often focus on detecting or policing academic misconduct. In keeping with recent scholarship on teaching and learning, we wish to reframe these conversations to focus instead on a pedagogy of academic integrity, a fundamental value of the scholarly community. Our encounters with and research on students’ experience suggest that not only do many of them not understand academic integrity or why it matters, but they also feel tremendous anxiety about the consequences of their lack of understanding and seek more support. This TLEF builds on its successful first year of funding that has implemented new curricula in 36 FYP and 8 Vantage College sections. We have developed, implemented and assessed a host of academic resources, including new curricular materials, to support ethical research, writing, and learning practices and develop a community of academic integrity practice. We wish to continue evaluation for eventual implementation into all First Year Programs. |
| Year 2: TLEF Showcase |  |
| Year 3: Project Year | Year 3 |
| Year 3: Funding Year | 2019/2020 |
| Year 3: Project Type | Large TLEF |
| Year 3: Principal Investigator | Laurie McNeill |
| Year 3: Funded Amount | 15,626 |
| Year 3: Team Members | Laurie McNeill, Sr. Instructor / Chair, First-Year Programs, English, Faculty of Arts |
| Year 3: Summary | Conversations about contemporary problems in higher education often focus on detecting or policing academic misconduct. In keeping with recent scholarship on teaching and learning, we wish to reframe these conversations to focus instead on a pedagogy of academic integrity, a fundamental value of the scholarly community. Our encounters with and research on students’ experience suggest that not only do many of them not understand academic integrity or why it matters, but they also feel tremendous anxiety about the consequences of their lack of understanding and seek more support. This TLEF addresses this issue by designing and implementing academic integrity curriculum in Arts’ First-Year Programs and Vantage College writing courses. These materials support students and faculty to foster more robust understandings of ethical research, writing, and learning practices, and develop a community of practice to bring faculty and staff together across the UBC campus. |
| Project Report | 2019-TLEF-Final-Report-McNeill-WEB.pdf |