DOI: 10.5683/sp3/p5tpte
title: PSE policies Canada (July 2024)

description: &lt;h1&gt;PSE policies Canada (July 2024)&lt;/h1&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Project Team&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ray Huang - [&lt;a href="https://github.com/icedtofu"&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1699-6267" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1699-6267&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tim Ribaric - [&lt;a href="https://github.com/elibtronic"&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9229-8569" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9229-8569&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rahul Kumar - [&lt;a href="https://github.com/nnet2024"&gt;Github&lt;/a&gt;] [&lt;a href="https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-6045" rel="nofollow"&gt;https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4247-6045&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

Policies play a pivotal role in defining the boundaries of what is permissible and what is not. Among these, academic integrity policies are crucial in outlining acceptable and unacceptable behaviours in academic settings. These policies were available in various formats on institutional websites. This repository contains text versions of academic integrity policies from English-language, publicly supported postsecondary education (PSE) institutions in Canada. We recognize that policies often lag behind innovation (e.g., Barzotto et al., 2019; Marcus, 1981; Rodríguez‐Pose & Wilkie, 2018); consequently, this repository also includes guidelines that are sometimes issued to address the disruption caused by GenAI. We aimed to examine their similarities and differences concerning responsibilities and freedoms outlined in the policies and guidelines. In the research for which these policies were collected, we were particularly interested in investigating how they have evolved (or not) in response to the proliferation of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). Using a computer script, these policies were collected on July 29, 2024 after their location was populated in the attached CSV file. Examining these policies and guidelines using computerized techniques required tokenization to perform Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) analyses. These processed files are also included in the repository. Details of the various files and their website locations are provided in the CSV file within the repository, and the README.md contains additional pertinent information. Our preliminary results indicate that the policies are indeed trailing the innovation and disruption brought about by GenAI. For more details, please visit our project website where the published results will also be posted.

&lt;h2&gt;Document Description & Summary&lt;/h2&gt;

That dataset is comprised of the academic integrity policies of English speaking, publically funding, Canadian institutions current to July 29, 2024. Harvested information is categorized into the following:
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;policies - documents that are binding&lt;/&gt;
&lt;li&gt;guidelines - documents that are not binding but represent best practices, guidelines, etc.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;followed up policies - documents that are secondary responses&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Description of files &lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;code&gt;PSE_Policies_Collection.csv&lt;/code&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A listing of all of the Canadian colleges and universities with a posted Academic Integrity policy investigated in this study. Columns in data:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name of the PSE&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;U15 or not&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;College/University&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Province&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;URL of the PSE&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;URL2 (filled if instiution has a policy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;URL3 (filled if instiution has a guideline)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;URL4 (filled if instiution has a followed up policy)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name of downloaded policy document (if applicable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name of the downloaded guideline policy (if applicable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Name of the downloaded followed up policy (if applicable)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Texts of Documents &lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Documents were either HTML or PDF file. These were harvested full-text was extracted and put into a text file with the name of institution, and time stamp of original collection from the web concatenated into the name of the file.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;Tokenization of Documents&lt;/h2&gt;
In order to run &lt;a href="https://radimrehurek.com/gensim/models/ldamodel.html"&gt;LDA&lt;/a&gt; analysis the full-text documents were parsed and tokenized using spACy and NLTK. This process lemmatized the text, created bigrams, and removed stopwords. Each token file follows the same naming structure as the extracted full-text with the addtion of &lt;strong&gt;_tokens&lt;/strong&gt; to the end of the filename.

&lt;h2&gt;References&lt;/h2&gt;
Barzotto, M., Corradini, C., Fai, F., Labory, S., &amp; Tomlinson, P. R. (2019). Enhancing innovative capabilities in lagging regions: An extra-regional collaborative approach to RIS3. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 12(2), 213-232. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz003"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1093/cjres/rsz003&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Marcus, A. A. (1981). Policy uncertainty and technological innovation. Academy of Management Review, 6(3), 443-448. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1981.4285783"&gt;https://doi.org/10.5465/amr.1981.4285783&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rodríguez‐Pose, A., &amp; Wilkie, C. (2018). Innovating in less developed regions: what drives patenting in the lagging regions of Europe and North America. Growth and Change, 50(1), 4-37. &lt;a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12280"&gt;https://doi.org/10.1111/grow.12280&lt;/a&gt;