Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments.

Plagiarism 117

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 117

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Instead, these tools should guide and empower students.

Plagiarism 121

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 121

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Collaborative syllabus design: During the first class, engage students in setting community and classroom norms and goals. A co-created syllabus session fosters accountability and trust, as students feel ownership of the course structure (Cook-Sather et al., 2014; Agarwal, 2019). Instead, these tools should guide and empower students.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance. No doubt, coming soon over an increasingly strange horizon.

Plagiarism 116

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

The worriers of academia envision a dystopia where students outsource thinking and creativity; where intellectual property theft and plagiarism unchecked and undetectable will lead to a generation of writers with no syntax mojo or ability to communicate without generative assistance. No doubt, coming soon over an increasingly strange horizon.

Plagiarism 111

Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Just take a look at the article, “ Here are the schools and colleges that have banned the use of ChatGPT over plagiarism and misinformation fears ” (Nolan, 2023), and you will find several U.S.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98