Academic Integrity Rating System
ICAI members are invited to participate in the Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS), a framework designed to help identify the status of your Academic Integrity Program, establish aspirational goals, and develop a future action plan for improvement.
Background:
The Academic Integrity Rating System (AIRS) was designed to identify benchmarks for institutionalizing academic integrity, reward campuses for their efforts, enable colleges and universities to quickly compare themselves to their peers, publicize for interested stakeholders’ campus efforts, and stimulate and provide data for international conversations on academic integrity. The instrument has been expanded and updated to reflect current thinking on the issue of academic misconduct and the institutionalization of academic integrity, shaped by an additional and fruitful 10 years of research. AIRS is a self-assessment tool to measure the state of academic integrity at educational institutions.
How it works:
AIRS assesses seven key components of an academic integrity program to identify the academic integrity program level of institutionalization:
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Administrative Leadership & Support
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Faculty Engagement & Support
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Staff Engagement & Support
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Student Engagement & Support
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Education & Communication
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Policies & Procedures
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Research & Evaluation
It works through a rubric that measures each component with a variety of indicators, which are evidence of the progress of change toward full institutionalization of academic integrity. The framework considers four stages of quality improvement: Starting Gate, Emerging, Developing, and Transforming. The phases intend to give institutions benchmarks to describe their existing stage and set aspirational goals for the future.
Validation begins this summer with access to the tool for members available as well.
Interested in using AIRS at your institution? To learn more details and participate,
please write to:
Courtney Cullen courtney.cullen@academicintegrity.org (English)
Daniela Gallego Daniela.gallego@tec.mx (Spanish)
