Description
Good academic integrity behaviour is a mindset that requires education and motivation using consistent, reinforcing and progressive messaging that engages the student at both a cognitive and socio-emotional level. This project proposes the use of an embodied conversational agent, Sam the Student Academic integrity Mentor, to help the student reflect on their own experience and three video-cases of three students (engineering, law and business) to consider why students cheat, the possible consequences of such behaviour and the alternative courses of action available if help is needed.The intervention was designed to provide a complementary and distinctly different strategy to existing approaches. The key concept behind Sam is to allow empathic, non-judgemental, confidential and open consideration of the topic of academic integrity and its relevance for each individual. The main purpose of the intervention is to assist the student to explore academic integrity from a personal and emotional level to engage with the gravity of the content and motivate possible future change in behaviour.
Macquarie University College is adapting the dialogue of SAM to fit with a diverse student cohort and will conduct a trial in the near future to evaluate its efficacy.
| Period | 21 Oct 2022 |
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| Event title | Australian Academic Integrity Network Forum 2022 |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Online, AustraliaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | National |