Academic Integrity and Achievement

Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. The following steps can help you, and your students, take action to ensure academic integrity. What questions do you have?

Academic Integrity

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AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

The “Mississippi Miracle” –a term used to describe the state’s dramatic gains in literacy–and promising 2024 NAEP results in Louisiana , Philadelphia , and Los Angeles illustrate that a commitment to research-backed curriculum can help narrow the achievement gap, though it requires investment and focused effort.

Education

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5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. One promising solution to the triple challenge of fostering critical thinking, meaningful learning, and academic integrity is to double down on transparency.

Critical Thinking

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5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

Faculty Focus

JULY 8, 2025

We recognize we need to update assignments to promote academic integrity in an AI age, yet many of us feel unprepared to do so. One promising solution to the triple challenge of fostering critical thinking, meaningful learning, and academic integrity is to double down on transparency.

Critical Thinking

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Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Whether its writing a research paper with academic integrity or designing a technology solution that addresses a global issue, Elmwood girls learn how to think deeply and act responsibly.

Schools

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5 tips to build academic integrity

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The importance of academic integrity can’t be underestimated, especially when it comes to blended learning. Statistics show there was a 68 percent increase in the number of integrity violations reported in 2019-2020 compared with 2018-2019. It also made academic integrity a significant point of concern.

Academic Integrity

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How Writing Can Help Close the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Turnitin’s Elijah Mayfield

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2017

In 2014, Turnitin acquired LightSide with a mandate to help shift Turnitin’s focus from academic integrity tools to those that emphasize student writing. making writing judgment-free and effortless to get practice and get opportunities for revision, and get feedback, is the only way to even start to close the achievement gap.

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To Understand ChatGPT’s Impact on Higher Education, Think Like a Scientist

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity. Our researchers aim to ascertain what students and faculty know about the technology, how often they use it and for what purposes, and how they view its usefulness or appropriateness in various academic contexts.

Academic Integrity

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. How this leads to cheating : Without an emphasis on academic integrity or a strong student-teacher relationship, students may feel less inclined to follow the rules.

Academic Integrity

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How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

With the rapid advancement of technology, digital tools have emerged as powerful assets in achieving this goal. Social studies education serves as the cornerstone for cultivating informed and engaged citizens capable of understanding the complexities of the world around them.

Social Studies

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Latest Enhancements to Discovery Education Services Drive Deeper Student Engagement

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

To support academic integrity, randomized questions ensure each student is assigned unique problems to work on. Recently, Pivot’s product team added several new enhancements to the service including the additions of: Responsive feedback, which provides each student with targeted and specific feedback based on their answers.

Student Engagement

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Illuminate Education Partners with Turnitin to Provide Assessment Resources for Remote Learning

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Illuminate Education , a leading K-12 student performance solution, is partnering with Turnitin , a leading provider of academic integrity and assessment solutions. This includes teaching students the importance of academic authenticity and integrity, and we are eager to partner with Turnitin to achieve this.”.

Academic Integrity

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Big Deals—AI GUIDANCE for Schools Toolkit, Assessment PD for Teachers, and EV Buses Hit the Road.

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

.” The AI Guidance for Schools Toolkit recommends seven principles for crafting AI guidance: Purpose: Use AI to help all students achieve educational goals. Integrity: Advance academic integrity. “It offers principles and practical examples for schools to integrate AI in a forward-thinking way.”

Teachers

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How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

If you're using a tool that benefits or takes inspiration from your creative masterpiece, it's not truly aligned with core creative values and academic integrity. In what ways does AI help foster creativity while ensuring that student work remains authentic? AI can support any part of the creative process.

Multiple Choice Questions

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How Experiential Learning Can Improve Educational and Workforce Equity

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

Education

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From Sandbox to Strategy: How Artificial Intelligence is impacting the K-12 Learning Environment

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

He also prioritized inclusion by creating an Equity Committee and launching initiatives to address achievement gaps. This ensures that both teachers and students can confidently navigate AI integration while maintaining academic integrity.

Intelligence

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity

LeBron James Is Schooling Us on What Education Reform Got Wrong

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

James’ move should inspire a generation of policymakers to acknowledge that until we fund poverty relief in tandem with academics and stronger relationships, achievement gaps and opportunity gaps will persist. Fast forward to 2018, and in places like Akron, chronic achievement gaps have persisted at alarming rates.

Education

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Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

By fostering self-awareness and self-regulation, metacognitive strategies empower students to monitor their learning processes, set achievable goals, and adapt their approaches to overcome linguistic and academic challenges. The challenges of supporting ELLs across content areas Teaching ELLs presents unique challenges.

Essay

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Engaging Students in Meaningful Learning Experiences

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Foster student accountability: There are ways to help students be accountable to their own actions and to behave responsibly towards their learning Cultivate academic integrity : academic integrity can be achieved effortlessly when students are interested in what they do and understand the positive impact of their learning on their lives.

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students

Engaging Students in Meaningful Learning Experiences

Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

Foster student accountability: There are ways to help students be accountable to their own actions and to behave responsibly towards their learning Cultivate academic integrity : academic integrity can be achieved effortlessly when students are interested in what they do and understand the positive impact of their learning on their lives.

Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity Multiple Choice Questions Learning Students

2 Free Webcasts from Turnitin

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Learn how to protect your academic integrity and improve writing achievement. Tricia Bertram Gallant, Transition Committee Co-Chair at the International Center for Academic Integrity, will overview this phenomenon, what institutions can do to prevent it, and what faculty must do to detect it. Sign up now.

Plagiarism

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How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. If students witness or believe that plagiarism achieves results, they can feel pressured to do the same in order to meet what they feel are unrealistic expectations. And in her book My Word!,

Plagiarism

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From Sandbox to Strategy: How Artificial Intelligence is impacting the K-12 Learning Environment

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

He also prioritized inclusion by creating an Equity Committee and launching initiatives to address achievement gaps. This ensures that both teachers and students can confidently navigate AI integration while maintaining academic integrity.

Intelligence

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity

EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

I’ve been reading more Substack newsletters about education this year as well and have learned so much from so many of them, including Derek Newton’s The Cheat Sheet about academic integrity; Nick Fouriezos’s Mile Markers about rural higher education; and Ethan Mollick’s One Useful Thing , which has included many timely nuggets on AI in education.

Reading

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Be specific about what will need to happen to achieve their learning goals versus just to get the grade. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive.

Teaching

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Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

A new way to write their course policy on academic integrity or late assignments. Be specific about what will need to happen to achieve their learning goals versus just to get the grade. Language for the disability statement in their syllabus. A new author they can add to their course to make it more diverse and inclusive.

Teaching

Teaching Syllabus Instructors Disabilities

Writing Case Studies Using Generative AI: Intimate Debate Case Study

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. 1 Also, entering private or proprietary data into the GenAI tool may invertedly compromise the integrity of that data, breaching privacy and data security. Cite your sources and do not create them.

Study

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors

Writing Case Studies Using Generative AI: Intimate Debate Case Study

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2024

There are issues of academic integrity and plagiarism for users (like students) who may offload their work to the tool. 1 Also, entering private or proprietary data into the GenAI tool may invertedly compromise the integrity of that data, breaching privacy and data security. Cite your sources and do not create them.

Study

Study Writing Evaluation Instructors

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Cautiously Recognizing Educational Opportunities

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 16, 2025

Self-efficacy is a persons belief in their ability to achieve a goal or complete a task and is extremely important in education, both for students and faculty. Issues like academic integrity and plagiarism have already pushed us to rethink assessment strategies and the concept of a learning community.

Intelligence

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As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

One expert on traditional oral exams, Stephen Dobson, dean of education and the arts at Central Queensland University in Australia, worries that it will be difficult for an AI system like Sherpa to achieve a key benefit of oral exams — making up new questions on the fly based on how the students respond.

Exams

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Teaching Vanguard

Catch them Learning: A Pathway to Academic Integrity in the Age of AI

AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention

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5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

5 Steps to Update Assignments to Foster Critical Thinking and Authentic Learning in an AI Age

Elmwood School: Where Girls Rise with Confidence, Curiosity and Global Vision

5 tips to build academic integrity

How Writing Can Help Close the Achievement Gap: An Interview with Turnitin’s Elijah Mayfield

To Understand ChatGPT’s Impact on Higher Education, Think Like a Scientist

Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

How digital tools and AI can enhance social studies

Latest Enhancements to Discovery Education Services Drive Deeper Student Engagement

Illuminate Education Partners with Turnitin to Provide Assessment Resources for Remote Learning

Big Deals—AI GUIDANCE for Schools Toolkit, Assessment PD for Teachers, and EV Buses Hit the Road.

How AI Can Foster Creative Thinking in the Classroom and Beyond

How Experiential Learning Can Improve Educational and Workforce Equity

From Sandbox to Strategy: How Artificial Intelligence is impacting the K-12 Learning Environment

LeBron James Is Schooling Us on What Education Reform Got Wrong

Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs

Engaging Students in Meaningful Learning Experiences

Engaging Students in Meaningful Learning Experiences

2 Free Webcasts from Turnitin

How Social Media Encourages Plagiarism (and Six Ways You Can Fight It)

From Sandbox to Strategy: How Artificial Intelligence is impacting the K-12 Learning Environment

EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Inclusive Teaching Begins with Authenticity

Writing Case Studies Using Generative AI: Intimate Debate Case Study

Writing Case Studies Using Generative AI: Intimate Debate Case Study

Generative Artificial Intelligence: Cautiously Recognizing Educational Opportunities

As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist

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