PD Workshop by Susan McLachlin & Frank Bieri April 29, 2013 NOTL Campus Niagara College

2. Student video

3. Agenda
0 Preventing Academic
Misconduct
0 Exam and Test
Proctoring
0 Dealing with Attendance
Issues

4. What is cheating?

5. Preventing Academic
Misconduct
0Time for a quiz!
0No cheating!!

6. Quiz: What is Cheating?
Read the statements below. Mark the statements T (true) or F (false).
1. You should put quotation marks (“ “) around anything that you copied
exactly from somewhere else.
2. If you use someone else’s ideas in your writing but you don’t use their exact
words, you don’t need to say where you got the information.
3. You have to give your source if the information comes from a book but not if
it comes from the Internet.
4. Your teacher says Friday’s Grammar test is “open book.” This means it’s OK
to open your book and use it during a test.
5. During an open-book test, you are allowed to look at your neighbour’s test
paper.
6. You and a friend are doing writing homework. She understands it. You don’t.
It’s OK for her to explain the problem to you.
7. If you don’t understand your homework, it’s OK just to copy your friend’s
answers and turn them in.
8. If a group of students does homework together, it’s OK for everyone to turn
in exactly the same answers.
9. If you copy another person’s picture, homework, or test, it is a kind of
stealing.
10. Copying is a serious issue in Canadian schools.
11. ______ During a M/C test or exam, it is ok

8. What are the consequences of
cheating?

10. Why do students cheat?

11. (ref. IS 22, Pr 9)
While ISs identified Prof delivery and lesson pace as the number one reason (28.9%) they don’t
understand in class, the Profs cite student language skills and vocabulary as the main reason. Another
discrepancy the data reveals is that ISs rank lack of effort/focus highly (21.3%) as to why they don’t
understand, while no Profs at all cited this as a reason.
(ISs) When I don’t understand in class, the reasons are
(Profs) When International Students don’t understand in class, the reasons are:
ISs Pr
Prof delivery, lesson pace 65 18
Vocabulary 27 25
Student language skills 33 68
Lack of effort/focus 48 0
Cultural gap 20 23
Content related 12 3
Interference, distractions 4 5
No problem 7 1
Other 11 10

14. What do you know?

15. Prevention

16. Video
0 Dan Ariely: Our buggy moral code

17. What are the controllable and
uncontrollable constraints
in our teaching and
learning environment?

18. Exam and Test Proctoring

19. What would you do?

25. How well do you know your
students?

26. Is there consistency in the
department?

27. (ref. IS 40, DS 22)
Both ISs and DSs identify language as the biggest challenge in working together. 77.2% of DSs responses
identified this challenge, while the ISs response was more spread out, including language (43.9%) DSs
attitude (17.2%) (0 DSs identified this as a challenge), cultural differences (9.9%) and no significant
challenges (14.6%).
The biggest challenge in my experience in working with ISs was: IS (191/229) DS (264/343)
Language 84 (43.9%) 204 (77.2%)
Cultural Differences 19 (9.9%) 0 (0%)
Plagiarism 0 (0%) 7 (2.6%)
No Challenges 28 (14.6%) 22 (8.3%)
Work Ethic 0 (0%) 10 (0.3%)
DS Attitude 33 (17.2%) 0 (0%)
Other/Nonsense 27 (14.1%) 21 (7.9%)