Creating assessments where cheating is impossible increases validity of the assessment but does not test or grow academic integrity. I can make my children clean their room by upping the consequences, but whether they do it or not without the threat of consequences is another matter— and presumably the goal. So long as the assumption is not that any opportunity that may induce cheating is actively unethical, I agree, and educators would do well to think about the culture their policies create.
Creating assessments where cheating is impossible increases validity of the assessment but does not test or grow academic integrity. I can make my children clean their room by upping the consequences, but whether they do it or not without the threat of consequences is another matter— and presumably the goal. So long as the assumption is not that any opportunity that may induce cheating is actively unethical, I agree, and educators would do well to think about the culture their policies create.