We know students both intentionally and unintentionally commit academic misconduct. The question is how can a university reduce academic misconduct and increase academic integrity? Based on the literature review, a Model of Implementation and Impact for Reducing Academic Misconduct was created. The underlying rationale of the model is that voluntary participation by students and faculty members in individual academic integrity events or random courses will have less impact on reducing academic misconduct and that required enrolment in academic integrity activities in school or faculty introductory core courses will have a greater impact in reducing academic misconduct. This paper will describe the steps that the School of Business, MacEwan University, Canada, took to reduce academic misconduct amongst its student population showing how two online academic tutorials were developed and implemented as required tutorials in introductory core courses in the School of Business. Then the preliminary results in reducing reported academic misconduct incidents will be reported and discussed.

Authors:
Lyle Benson, MacEwan University, Canada
Rickard Enström, MacEwan University, Canada

About the Presenter(s)
Dr Lyle Benson is a University Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer at MacEwan University in Canada

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