2020 Southeast Regional ICAI Sharing Conference

2020 Southeast Regional ICAI Sharing Conference

                          Concurrent Session 1: 2:00–2:30 pm EST

“Crowd-Sourced Plagiarism Detection of Essays”
Zachariah Beasley, Faculty, University of South Florida
The aggregate guess of a sufficiently large and diverse group produces a precise result (the
wisdom of the crowd). By applying this principle to peer review of essays or other open-ended
questions, an instructor can organize their course and leverage a crowd to help identify and
mitigate plagiarism.

“Student Leadership in Academic Integrity”
Daisy Yu, Renee Paulraj, and Rachel Yu, Undergraduate Students, University of Maryland,
College Park
Our presentation focuses on how the University Student Judiciary, a student-led governing
body at the University of Maryland, functions virtually and encourages integrity across campus,
in addition to enforcing university policies. We also discuss our education and outreach
campaigns to promote peer involvement in and awareness about integrity issues.

“Lessons Learned from the Pandemic”
Lee Ann Clements, Director of Academic Integrity and Academic Support; Professor of Biology &
Marine Science, Jacksonville University
The incidents of academic integrity violations increased dramatically with the move to entirely
online instruction in March 2020. In addition, the types of infractions shifted towards more
unauthorized collaboration and cheating on tests rather than plagiarism. Student stress and
lack of timely communication with faculty during a testing situation seemed to be the drivers of
the collaboration behaviors. Strategies will be discussed for preventing this problem as we
remain in hybrid or online teaching with traditional students.

“The Blurred Lines of Collusion”
Courtney Cullen, Program Coordinator, Office of Academic Honesty, University of Georgia
“The Blurred Lines of Collusion” discusses the student vs. faculty views on what counts as
unauthorized assistance during assessments.

Concurrent Session 2: 2:30–3:00 pm EST

“Structuring Student Success: Construction and Design to Support Academic Integrity”
Morgan Gresham and Alaina Tackett, Faculty, University of South Florida
We consider factors known to impact academic integrity and discuss how integrity-informed
course design can support and structure student success. Specifically, we suggest that
expanding general course scaffolding to emphasize reading and revision as process steps has
the potential to impact contextual and individual factors related to academic integrity.

“Redesigning Assignments to Dissuade Plagiarism in a Research Course”
Monica Colon-Aguirre, Faculty, East Carolina University
Plagiarism in its many forms has no place in higher education, more among graduate students.
However, it does happen, and it is up to educators to put in place the policies and practices that
help dissuade plagiarism. This presentation will focus on sharing practices enforced in a
research methods course.

“Will you write my paper? How much?”
Wisam Tufail, Graduate Student, University of South Florida
Remote classes provide students the opportunity to explore online resources beyond the
ordinary means - seeking out someone via the internet to write their papers. Numerous
websites offer such services at competitive pricing guaranteeing original and plagiarism-free
papers. This presentation will introduce the phenomenon of essays-for-purchase.

“How to Pursue a Chegg Investigation”
Kelly Ahuna, Director, Office of Academic Integrity, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Is your institution struggling with students' increased reliance on Chegg.com during remote
learning? At UB, we've undertaken more than 70 investigations with Chegg since spring 2020.
This session will focus on the steps to follow to get the information you need from Chegg to
process academic integrity cases.

Concurrent Session 3: 3:00–3:30 pm EST

“Not Always a Matter of Ethics: Teaching Students about Avoiding Plagiarism”
Susan Ariew, Faculty, University of South Florida
How can instructors teach students concepts about avoiding plagiarism? This presentation
outlines a standalone, self-paced workshop on avoiding plagiarism that instructors can assign
outside of their classes. Participants completing the workshop receive a badge for credit or
extra credit that they can present to instructors.

“Academic Integrity as the Conspiracy Theory”
Russ Wood, Faculty, Southwest Virginia Community College
I met my first conspiracy theorist as a result of COVID-19, and the coded language of a
dedicated conspiracy theorist reminded me of what I sound like when I try to convince students
to act with integrity. So I worked on making academic integrity (and my assignments) more
relatable, an act of faith.

Student Panel: “Peer-to-Peer Virtual Engagement”
Courtney Cullen, Program Coordinator, Office of Academic Honesty, University of Georgia
Jonathan Martin, Evan Morning, and Iris Hersey, Undergraduate Students, University of Georgia
Students will spend 5-8 minutes discussing how they virtually engaged with the UGA student
body during AI week 2020. They will be able to compare it to the previous year, noting
challenges and opportunities. The remaining time will be used for the moderator to ask
prearranged questions, and then to open the floor for all participants to ask questions.

“Facilitating Hearings while Working from Home”
Jackie Khawand, Coordinator, Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, University of Central
Florida
As professionals everywhere are adjusting to working remotely, the work we do needs to be
adjusted to fit the virtual workplace. This session discusses how UCF has successfully facilitated
remote hearings, including the technology and practices that have been implemented to make
this process successful.

Concurrent Session 4: 3:30–4:00 pm EST

“Making it Personal in Order to Reduce Plagiarism”
Byung-In Seo, Faculty, Chicago State University
I will share how I combat plagiarism in my undergraduate and graduate courses. It all starts
with determining a baseline and making the assignments personal to the students.

“The Dire Consequences of Enforcing Academic Dishonesty Policies at the ‘Output of the
Student’s Formation Process’: Lessons Learned from Control Systems”
Wilfrido Moreno, Faculty, University of South Florida
Victor Mercader, Faculty, CETYS Universidad
We all seem to know how to cover gaps and correct when a student’s unethical situation is
already present, but very few know how to apply the correctives by timely finding the causes
and therefore not allowing for the detrimental impact on the student’s academic experience
when unethical policies are applied to their fullest consequences.

“Caught on Proctorio”
Gulfem Yucelen, Faculty, University of South Florida
In this presentation, I will give examples of students who has shown suspicious behavior during
proctoring with Proctorio. I will discuss the techniques students have developed to cheat during
online exams and ways to prevent the situation.

“Teachable Moments: Developing On-line Action Plans for Students found In-Violation of
Academic Integrity”
Jennifer Wright, Program Manager, Student Conduct and Academic Integrity, University of
Central Florida
Today’s college students are under a tremendous amount of pressure to produce a picture-
perfect transcript upon graduation. During these times, students are even more concerned
about how to maintain course standards and personal expectations during a pandemic. As a
result, there has been an increase in cases of academic misconduct. So, how do we provide
educational sanctioning during a pandemic to students found in-violation of academic
integrity. This presentation will introduce you to how we design and tailor multi-component
on-line action plans. These action plans consist of components associated with values, ethical
decision making, confidence building, perfectionism, and dealing with shame and self-
doubt. Through the completion of these action plans we hope students will stay strong and
committed to their value system of honesty and truthfulness.

Concurrent Session 5: 4:00–4:30 pm EST

“’Turn It Into an “A,”’ or ‘Turnitin to an “F”’: A Small Sample Study of Plagiarism Analysis
as a Tool for Both Formative AND Summative Assessment”
Scot Boeringer, Faculty, University of South Florida
This presentation will discuss the debate about using an algorithm to identify academic
dishonesty and present an argument for a mixed formative feedback/summative evaluation
role, which is completely student-initiated and does not require significant knowledge of the
Turnitin platform, nor requires a greatly increased percentage of effort by the instructor.

“A High Percentage of Fear? Using Turnitin to Deter Plagiarism without Increasing Student
Anxiety”
Kawanna Bright, Faculty, East Carolina University
A popular tool for detecting obvious plagiarism in students' work, particularly due to easy
integration into LMSs, Turnitin may actually increase student anxiety about plagiarism without
actually deterring it. This presentation shares suggestions for taking advantage of Turnitin to
minimize acts of plagiarism without unnecessarily increasing student anxiety.

“Ombuds’ Perspectives on Fairness and Integrity”
Jennifer Schneider, Student Ombuds, University of South Florida
Shannon Burton, Associate University Ombudsperson, Michigan State University
Organizational ombuds operate under four core standards: confidentiality, impartiality,
informality and independence. Ombuds should not interfere in formal process or act as formal
decision makers, but they can provide meaningful support to faculty and students engaging in
academic integrity processes. This session will explore the ombuds’ role in matters of integrity.

“Making Integrity Policies Comprehensible: A Flowchart Solution”
Kevin Yee, Academic Integrity Officer, University of South Florida
Our large university has a well-established regulation for academic integrity sanctions and
appeals processes. However, the prose is dense, and few faculty, staff, or students want to read
all 17 pages, even when they are affected. We found great success in a switch to a visual
flowchart, colored by audience, to render the process comprehensible to all.

Conference Debrief and Networking: 4:30–5:00 pm EST

The last half-hour of the conference will be a chance to informally debrief and network with
colleagues. Join us on Microsoft Teams to discuss conference presentations and questions you
still have about academic integrity in Fall 2020.