Catch Them Learning: Instructional Strategies and Policies that Support Academic Integrity

Outline

Activator: Pair share how they'd respond, and how they think their students would respond, to 3 different scenarios. 3-5 mins

Share Goals: Goals for the session are shared, participants pair-share a take-away they hope to leave with based on the goals. 5 mins

Metaphor: Presenter shares an engaging story that is a metaphor for what teachers face today related to why people cheat and what can be done to address that challenge. Participants pair-share how this story relates to a challenge or success story they've experienced in their efforts to minimize cheating and/or support integrity. 10 mins

Content: Presenter shares 4 guiding principles and aligned strategies. After each guiding principle and strategies are discussed, participants pair-share an 'Ah-ha!', an 'Uh-oh', or an 'Affirmation' 25-30 mins

Synthesis: Participants identify an action step related to policy, professional learning, or classroom practice depending on their role and where they are in their efforts to support integrity/deter cheating. 5-8 mins.

Outcomes

After this session, participants will be able to:
Explain important differences between cheating and integrity, and why a multi-faceted approach is essential to both support integrity and deter cheating.

Explain the conditions where cheating is most likely to occur.

Identify key strengths and limitations of AI detection tools.

Explain the role of relationships, transparency, and explainability in supporting academic integrity.

Identify and explain specific instructional strategies, assessment practices, syllabus language (and aligned action), and policy language (and aligned action) that supports academic integrity.

Supporting research

Frontier, T. (2021). Teaching with clarity: Prioritizing to do less so students understand more. ASCD.

Frontier, T. (2025a). AI with intention: Principles and action steps for teachers and school leaders. ASCD.

Frontier, T. (2025b). Catch them learning: A pathway to academic integrity in the age of AI. The Cult of Pedagogy. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ai-integrity/

Frontier, T. (2026 in press). Preventing Cheating Through Academic Integrity. Quick Resource Guide. ASCD.

Krou, M. R., Fong, C. J., & Hoff, M. A. (2021). Achievement motivation and academic dishonesty: A meta-analytic
investigation. Educational Psychology Review, 33(2), 427–458. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-020-09557-7

Lee, V. R, Pope, D., Miles, S., Zárate, R. C., (2024). Cheating in the age of generative AI: A high school survey study of cheating behaviors before and after the release of ChatGPT, Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence,Volume 7.

Peeters, A., Robinson, V., Rubie-Davies, C. M. (2020). Theories in use that explain adolescent help seeking and avoidance in mathematics. Journal of Educational Psychology (112), 533-550.

Wiggins, G. P., & McTighe, J. (2005). Understanding by design. Expanded 2nd ed. Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development.