Academic integrity in public administration programmes: Practical reflections on prevention and response

Abstract

Academic integrity matters are relevant to all areas of university teaching, but they are of particular importance to degree programmes whose graduates intend to work in the public service. While a large body of scholarship exists on academic integrity, very little has been written that specifically relates to students who intend to pursue careers in the public sector. This article is a reflection of the author’s experience as Academic Integrity Officer in the School of Social and Policy Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, between January 2016 and July 2017, during which time 92 cases of suspected breaches of academic integrity were reviewed and adjudicated. An analysis of the cases presented here suggests that universities can make more use of preventative strategies than they currently do, and that more emphasis should be placed on prevention and less on punishment as a response.

Attitudes towards cheating behavior during assessing students᾽performance: student and teacher perspectives

“…A number of types of fraud have been identified (Jones 2011;Newman 2020), and numerous attempts have been made to classify them (Ashworth et al 1997;Lothringer 2008). The Glossary for Academic Integrity (Tauginienė et al 2018) was compiled, and taxonomies contributing to the systematization of the more and more abundant glossary in this field were developed (Lothringer 2008;Tauginienė et al 2019).…”