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Academic Ethics Teaching and Learning

Academic Ethics Teaching and Learning. Graduate Student Orientation August 21, 2007. Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies www.egr.msu.edu/~wolff. Teaching. Teachers and students have rights and responsibilities - you might be both!

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Academic Ethics Teaching and Learning

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  1. Academic EthicsTeaching and Learning Graduate Student Orientation August 21, 2007 Thomas F. Wolff, Ph.D., P.E Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies www.egr.msu.edu/~wolff

  2. Teaching • Teachers and students have rights and responsibilities- you might be both! • You may be a teaching assistant • If you are on a research team working with undergraduate student assistants, you are “teaching” them • You are definitely a student who will be taking classes • The best overall web site regarding rights and responsibilities at MSU is that of the University Ombudsman • What’s an Ombudsman?? • www.msu.edu/unit/ombud • Code of Teaching Responsibility • Classroom disruption • Classroom myths • TA / student conflicts

  3. Teaching • Code of Teaching Responsibility • http://www.msu.edu/unit/facrecds/FacHand/code.html(also linked from Ombudsman’s site) • Instructors must inform students of their method of determining grades. • They have very wide latitude in how they grade, but they must inform students. Must be reasonable, but not necessarily precise. • Exam questions belong to the instructor (unless they wish to release them), but students have a right to view their exams • Other items (papers, projects, etc.) belong to the student • Instructors must meet their classes and hold regular office hours • Instructors with TAs are responsible to acquaint them with CTR and monitor compliance

  4. Teaching • Disputes • First -- informal discussion with instructor • Second -- informal discussion with Chairperson • Third -- written request for formal hearing board • Associate Dean and Ombudsman may be resources for both sides, but do not adjudicate • Plagiarism and Cheating • Is taken seriously, and may have very serious consequences • See the Ombudsman’s web site again • A good definition of plagiarism is representing someone else’s work as your own

  5. Teaching and Learning • If a Teaching Assistant, you may find yourself teaching for the first time • If not, you may sooner than you think • In your thesis defense, you will actually be teaching • An excellent set of resources for teachers of engineering is at the web page of Rich Felder, professor emeritus of Chemical Engineerng at NCSU • http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/RMF.html • We may be experts on content, but must learn to be experts on teaching it. • My own essay to MSU engineering freshman includes some notes on professionalism, accreditation, Bloom’s taxonomy, being a learner, etc. See Engineering is Hard at www.egr.msu.edu/~wolff

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