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20 GURU-DAKSHTA Faculty Induction Programme (FIP)
Module 7: Academic Integrity

Objective:

To promote academic integrity among participants to have a trustworthy and high quality academic
outputs from higher education institutions.

Learning outcomes:
At the end of the course the participants will be able to:
3 Avoid plagiarism in their academic practices
3 Identify and maintain academic standards expected from them

3 Practice honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing
Focus area/ Themes:
3 Defining academic integrity
3 Honor codes and honor pledges: need and importance. Case analysis of the Honor codes of
some well-established institutions
3 Plagiarism: types, issues and consequences. Ways and means of protecting students and
teachers from plagiarism
3 Cheating in academic matters: Reasons, types and consequences
3 Challenges of academic integrity in the time of Information technology; Information literacy:
Need and Importance
3 Ethical conduct of research, Publication ethics, Issues of unauthorized collaboration

3 Consequence for academic dishonesty
3 Ways of promoting academic integrity, Importance of academic integrity in high quality
academic and research outputs
Activities:
Lectures, Discussion Group, Panel Discussion, Hands-on experiences on information literacy and
plagiarism tools and other software intended for the purpose, Documentaries, case studies.
Assessments:

Development of sample Honour codes, Oral presentations, involvement in activities related to
hands on experiences and written assignments.
Suggested Readings: (this is not an exhaustive list)
1. Bretag, Tracey .(2016). Handbook of Academic Integrity. (Ed). Springer Singapore
2. Tricia Bertram Gallant. (2008). Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching
and Learning Imperative: ASHE Higher Education Report, Volume 33, Number 5 . Jossey-
Bass publichers
3. Bernard E. Whitley Jr.; Patricia Keith-Spiege. (2002). Academic dishonesty: An Educator’s
guide. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
4. Petress, Kenneth C. (2003). Academic dishonesty: A plague on pour profession. Education,
Vol. 123, No. 3, Spring
5. Lang, J.M. (2013). Cheating lessons : learning from academic dishonesty / James M. Lang.
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press
6. Chaddha, P. (2018). Ethics in competent research. Pothi
7. Chaddha, P. (2018). Plagiarism of Scientific ideas. Pothi