Academic integrity in the education system in the field of physical culture

Abstract

The transition to distance learning as a result of quarantine measures in the field of higher education has intensified the negative trends in the use of dishonest learning methods by students. Objective: was to improve the quality of education of students of the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports by improving the mechanism for the observance of academic integrity. Material & Methods: analysis of normative documents, scientific works; Questionnaire of students of the Black Sea National University named after Petro Mohyla (n = 358) 1–4 courses studying at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports (specialty 017 «Physical Culture and Sports» (n = 200), 227 «Physical therapy, occupational therapy» (= 134), 091 «Biology» (n = 24). Conclusions: As a result of the survey, it was determined that the students of the Black Sea National University named after Peter Mohyla learn about the need of observance of academic integrity from teachers, curators, student government (52.4 %); from the Internet (17 %); from friends (12.35 %). The majority of respondents (62.9 %) stated that they had never used dishonest teaching methods and were unaware of such cases by their classmates. 16.7 % of respondents wrote off and used tips; 6.6 % of students did not refer to the sources properly. According to the majority of students (75.4 %), teachers prevent the manifestations of academic dishonesty: reduce scores for the task performed, forced to rework, or do not count points at all and do not allow to resubmit work. The results of a study by foreign scientists indicate that most of the manifestations of dishonesty include plagiarism, improper use of resources, deliberate and spontaneous fraud, deceiving teachers when passing online tests and exams. The results of studies by both domestic and foreign scientists indicate that from 40 % to 60 % of students resorted to academic impiety. Results: To reduce the negative consequences of manifestations of academic dishonesty in higher education in the process of training specialists in the field of sports, a number of measures have been proposed: formation of tasks for abstracts, creative and exploratory works, using modern trends in the theory and methodology of sports; an increase in the number of questions on exams, a decrease in the time spent on the online test (exam); an annual survey of students on the observance of academic integrity.