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Academic Integrity and International Students: An Inclusive Approach

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Second Handbook of Academic Integrity

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An experiment conducted at a prestigious UK university suggests that the willingness of undergraduate students to engage in academic misconduct strongly correlates to the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) ranking of their home countries. Other experiments and empirical studies have suggested the same outcome, even among second-generation immigrants. Is academic integrity indeed a culturally determined behavior? Is the lack of academic integrity exported with the growing number of international students? Are international students more visible because the domestic students who engage in misconduct are more sophisticated or subtle? Or are faculty members and administrators biased in their assumptions of the academic inferiority of international students? This chapter discusses these and other relevant issues, focusing on foreign language competencies and secondary school education as two important preconditions for higher education in general and international higher education in particular. The author argues that many international students may have challenges a priori due to their deficits in both areas, which may or may not be compensated by violating the norms of academic integrity. Moreover, the author questions the current framing of academic integrity and presents some strategies for the successful inclusion of international students in higher education, such as academic hospitality, innovative teaching techniques, and other tools.

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  1. University of St. Gallen (HSG), St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Elena Denisova-Schmidt

  2. Center for International Higher Education (CIHE), Boston College, Chestnut Hill, USA

    Elena Denisova-Schmidt

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  1. Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada

    Sarah Elaine Eaton

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  1. Department of Administrative and Instructional Leadership, St. John's University, St. John's University, Queens, NY, USA

    Ceceilia Parnther

  2. JAMAICA, United States

    Ceceilia Parnther

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Denisova-Schmidt, E. (2024). Academic Integrity and International Students: An Inclusive Approach. In: Eaton, S.E. (eds) Second Handbook of Academic Integrity. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54144-5_130

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