Episode 07

Academic integrity training is the responsibility of all the actors within Tec de Monterrey: teachers, administrative personnel, the different schools and departments, and students. 

It should be assumed that the culture of academic integrity should be formed by a formative and a managerial dimension. This implies rejecting the idea that a teacher can design assignments or exams that are completely immune to academic dishonesty is a myth, as Tracy Bretag (2017) puts it. 

What would happen if, instead of looking for ways to generate more secure tasks or exams, we start by modifying the purpose of assessment? That is to say, to move away from the traditional perspective of evaluating the student, to one in which the student is evaluated for and with the student. According to the Academic Integrity Program of the Tec de Monterrey, learning assessment is a complex mechanism that seeks to verify the progress that each student has made in his or her formative process and should not be limited to the issuance of a grade.

Hence, the Academic Integrity Program of Tecnológico de Monterrey seeks to:

1. To train technically efficient and ethically responsible graduates, who are capable of making ethical decisions in difficult situations.
2. To contribute to the development of the autonomy of our students and their capacity to take charge of the social reality and the demands it poses, based on integrity.

Support resources

Below we share with you a series of readings, videos and web pages that may be of interest to you. We invite you to consult them:

Guest lecturer

Daniela Gallego

She has a degree in Political Science, a master's degree in Corporate Social Responsibility and a PhD from the University of Valencia in Ethics and Democracy. Her line of work is applied ethics in organizations, academic integrity, ethics and citizenship education, public management, and diversity management. Another phase of her professional development has been the evaluation of the processes and results of the development of ethical and citizenship competencies. In recent years she has been a teaching collaborator at Tecnológico de Monterrey in Ethics and Citizenship. Since 2013 she has been a guest lecturer at the International Week of the Master of Public Management at ESAN University in Lima. In Valencia Spain she collaborated in the Master in Public Management, Political Leadership and Communication, in the Master in Integration Policies for Immigrants and Intercultural Mediation of the Business School of the University of Alicante, in the Valencian Institute of Public Administration of the Valencian Parliament, in Florida Universitaria and other institutions. She was coordinator for one year of the Erasmus plus project: Students4change where 15 universities participate. Funded by the European Commission. She worked as an expert advisor in the European project: Managing Cultural Diversity in Small and Medium Sized Organizations EUDIM, funded by the European Commission, Coordinated by the Research Institute for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (BF/M), from its inception in October 2016 until October 2017. She was a member of the expert advisory committee in the Diversity Management in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Project, funded by the European Social Fund and the Spanish Ministry of Employment and Social Security, from June 2013 to March 2014. She has worked as a collaborating researcher at the Étnor Foundation, for business and organizational ethics, as a member of the Bioethics Research Group of the University of Valencia and of the Executive Committee Board of the International Ethics Association IDEA.