TABLE OF CONTENTS

1.0 KEY DEFINITIONS........................................................................3

2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES......................................................................3
3.0 OFFENSES AND PENALTIES.......................................................5
4.0 PYP...............................................................................................6
5.0 MYP AND DP................................................................................6

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1.0 KEY DEFINITIONS

Academic Honesty refers to a set of values, attitudes and skills that
promote personal integrity in teaching, learning and assessment. Examples of
academic dishonesty include plagiarism, collusion (allowing ones work to be
copied or submitted for assessment by another), taking unauthorized
material into an examination room, misconduct during the examination
including any attempt to disrupt the examination or distract another student.
Plagiarism is copying of other peoples work and thoughts without their
express permission or without acknowledging of the source. Examples of
plagiarism include copy and pasting from the internet or from text books.
Copying works of art, whether music, film, dance, theatre arts or visual arts,
also constitutes plagiarism
Collusion: this is defined as supporting malpractice by another candidate, as
in allowing ones
work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another.
Duplication of work: this is defined as the presentation of the same work
for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements
Any other behaviour that gains an unfair advantage for a candidate or that
affects the results
of another candidate (for example, taking unauthorized material into an
examination room,
misconduct during an examination, falsifying a CAS record).
Intellectual Property refers to other peoples original work for example,
writings, art, music, speeches, PPTs etc. Material found in text books, on the
internet and in live performances is intellectual property.
Originality is the idea of developing new work as expressed in the students
own language, expression, style etc.
Paraphrasing is the presentation of other peoples words in a new style by
altering the word order in sentences or by inserting a few new words. When
work is paraphrased, the source MUST be acknowledged.
Acknowledging Sources is the practice of citing the original source of
information either by using a bibliography or by quoting the source as you
write a report etc.

2.0 RESPONSIBILITIES
Faculty and students are responsible for promoting academic honesty in
teaching, learning, and assessment in the PYP, MYP, and DP programmes of

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study. (Please note, however, that some of the measures described below will
be age and grade specific.)
Teachers will:

Model academic honesty. For example, all teachers will model

appropriate behavior by citing sources of materials used in class lessons
including ideas, pictures, poems and maps etc.

Assess all student work with the view of praising originality and
confirming that students work is authentic.

Support the schools policy on good academic practice and provide

students with guidance with regard to conventions for citing and
acknowledging original authorship (MLA method of referencing) which is
applicable for students use in the Senior School). All teachers will
promote the grade level expectations to students for appropriate citation
in all assignments including written, oral and computer presentations.

Teachers will provide appropriate guidance to the students on how to

acknowledge sources (books, articles from journals, magazines or
newspapers, internet, CD-Rom and computer software.) and ideas
emerging out of a group discussion. If the particular idea emerged as a
result of discussion prior to drafting your assignment, you can
acknowledge this in a footnote or endnote: The basis of this idea was
originally expressed by a fellow student in a group discussion.

Structure assignments to avoid generalized reports involving little

more than information gathering. Instead, teachers must give specific
guidelines that encourage students to develop their own ideas through
problem solving, comparison, precise hypothesis, analysis, etc.

Paraphrasing-Students will be taught how to differentiate between

legitimate and illegitimate paraphrasing.
Teachers to work with the school librarian to provide research guidelines
to students and instruction on locating, evaluating, and using
information effectively in different subject areas.

Use turnitin.com as plagiarism prevention check

Report incidences of academic dishonesty.

Students will:

Model academic honesty

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Be original at all times, in individual and group assignments

Ensure that all work submitted for assessment is authentic, with the
work or ideas of others fully and correctly acknowledged

Use conventions when appropriate such as MLA format to acknowledge

sources

Submit assignments to turnitin.com to show authenticity of thought

Complete written work that can reflect the following: a carefully

developed thesis;
evaluation of sources, a plan for investigation,
personal critique or analysis, evidence of higher order thinking in a
proposal, in-class research assignments.

3.0 OFFENSES AND PENALTIES

Academic dishonesty most commonly involves collusion or plagiarism;
however, there are other ways in which a student may commit an offense.
The following examples do not constitute an exhaustive list, but they do
include the majority of offences:

copying the work of another student (including homework)

looking at anothers test or quiz

letting another student look at a test or a quiz

using other secretive methods of receiving or giving answers on a test

or quiz

taking information from another source that is not properly attributed

working with others on an assignment that was meant to be done by

individuals

taking papers from the Internet, other publications, or other students

taking any part of a test to use or give to others

submitting a computer program that has been developed by another

stealing examinations

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altering grades on a computer database

using without due credit the ideas, expressions, or productions of

another

taking unauthorized material into an examination room

engaging in misconduct during the examination

stealing examination papers

fabricating data for an assignment

failing to comply with the instructions of the invigilator or teacher

supervisor

impersonating another student

4.0 PYP

Students will be asked to redo work that a teacher identifies as

plagiarized. This consequence will be communicated through a note to
the parents.
Second offence will lead to a redo, a note from the teacher to the
parents and a four way conference involving the Head of Primary,
teacher, parent and student. The ICT teacher and/or the librarian will be
in attendance.
Third offence will lead to a four way conference involving Head of
Primary, teacher, parent and the student. The length of suspension will
be at the discretion of the Principal following discussion with the
teacher, parent and student.

5.0 MYP AND DP

Please refer to the Middle School Discipline and consequences Policy as well
as the IBO Academic Policy publication. Both documents outline how offences
of academic dishonesty will be considered.

Please find attached the discipline and consequences

policy.
AcknowledgementsAcademic Honesty policy IBO publication

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