Handbook of Academic Integrity

Tracey Bretag, BA(Hons), MA, EdD has an eclectic background in English literature, gender studies, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and education. She teaches communication, ethics and professional development courses at the University of South Australia and is the Director of the Global Experience Program, a university-wide extra-curricular program designed to enhance students’ global competencies. Tracey’s research for the last decade has focussed on all aspects of academic integrity. She is currently the Project Leader of the Office for Learning and Teaching funded project, Extending and embedding exemplary academic integrity policy across the higher education sector and previously led the Australian Learning and Teaching Council funded project, Academic integrity standards: Aligning policy and practice in Australian universities (2010-2012). Tracey is the founding Editor of the International Journal for Educational Integrity, former Chair of the Asia-Pacific Forum onEducational Integrity, founding co-convenor of the International Association of Academic Integrity Conferences and 2014 in-coming Chair of the Advisory Board to the Center for Academic Integrity, in the U.S. Her most recent publications have included papers on academic integrity policy, students’ understandings of academic integrity, publication ethics and issues of integrity for postgraduate research students.  

Defining Academic Integrity - International Perspectives.- Academic Integrity in North America.- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : China.- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : India.- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Indonesia.- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Japan.- Asian Perspectives of Academic Integrity : Malaysia.- Educational Integrity in Australia.- European Perspectives of Academic Integrity.- Middle Eastern Perspectives of Academic Integrity : A Perspective from Egypt.- Middle Eastern Perspectives of Academic Integrity : A view from the Gulf Region.- Perspectives of Academic Integrity from Colombia.- Perspectives of Academic Integrity from Nigeria.- UK Perspectives of Academic Integrity.- Breaches of Academic Integrity.- Breaches of Academic Integrity using Collusion.- Breaches of Academic Integrity using Exam Cheating.- Breaches of Academic Integrity Using Plagiarism.- Custom Essay Writers, Freelancers and Other Paid Third Parties.- Falsification of Academic Documents.- Falsification of Data.- File Sharing and Academic Integrity.- Getting Paid Help to get the Doctorate Done.- Contextual Factors Which Impact Academic Integrity.- Academic Standards in Higher Education: Trends, Context and Prognosis.- Commercialisation and Marketisation of Higher Education.- Internationalisation of Higher Education.- Promoting Academic Integrity through Authentic Assessment Strategies.- What it Means to be a Student Today.- Who is to Blame? Motivators of Student Academic Dishonesty in Higher Education.- Academic Integrity Policy and Practice.- Adopting a Teaching and Learning Approach.- Developing a Sustainable Holistic Institutional Approach: Dealing with Realities ‘on the ground’ When Implementing an Academic Integrity Policy.- Educational Responses.- Exemplary Academic Integrity Policy.- Holistic Approach.- Start them Early and Right: Creating a Culture of Academic Integrity in Elementary Schools.- Su

pporting Secondary School Students.- Plagiarism in Higher Education: An Academic Literacies Issue?- Creating Faculty Development Programming to Prevent Plagiarism: Strategies and Understandings.- International EAL Students.- Mentoring and Monitoring First-year College Writers.- Plagiarism or Patch-writing?- Scholarly Work and Meaning: Making the Conventions of Academic Integrity Signify.- Seven Metaphors Towards Originality: The Role of Bridging and Foundation Courses in Unpacking Academic Integrity for Undergraduate and Graduate Students.- Student Perspectives on Plagiarism.- Academic Integrity in the Digital Age.- Authorship, Identity and Plagiarism in the Digital Age.- Contract Cheating.- Plagiarism and the Internet.- Quantitative and Qualitative Methods to Manage Plagiarism.- Recycling Our Own Work in the Digital Age.- The Internet as a double-edged sword: temptation or vehicle for plagiarism and cheating?- Disciplinary Approaches to Academic Integrity.- Academic Integrity in Non-Text Based Disciplines.- Health and Social Care.- Humanities.- Law.- Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).- Social Sciences.- Integrity in Research and Research Training.- Research Integrity: China and U.S.- Research Integrity: International Perspectives.- Research Integrity: Introduction.- Research Integrity: Perspectives from Argentina, Brazil and U.S.- Research Integrity: Perspectives from Australia and Netherlands.- Research Integrity: Perspectives from Austria and Canada.- Research Integrity: Perspectives from Canada.- Research Integrity: Perspectives from Korea and U.S.- Integrity Versus Fraud and Corruption.- Corrupted Credentials: Plagiarised Theses, Fake Degrees, Falsified cvs, Identity.- Plagiarism in the Wider World: Celebrities, Politicians, Businesses, Journalists, Judges.- Science and Vested Interests: Sponsored Research, Secrecy, Conflicts of Interest, Ghostwriting, Hazards to Public.- Scientific Fraud: Fabrication, Data Manipulation, Shonky Statistics, etc.- Suppression of Dissent: Attacking Dissidents, Blocking Innovation, Marginalising Research Fields; The Chilling Effect.- Whistleblowing and Activism: Exposing and Opposing Abuses.- Systems Approach to Going Forward.- Creating Cultures of Integrity.- Engaging Students and Faculty.- Getting Political: What Institutions & Governments Need to Do.- Infusing Ethical Decision-Making & Acting into the Curriculum.- Leveraging Failures for the Betterment of Education.- Teaching and Learning Approach – Duplicate.