ASB Handbook 2021-22
Section 3: Code of Conduct
3.6 Academic Integrity
In a learning community, each one of us seeks to learn, to be understood, to be treated fairly, to treat others fairly and to be honest in our relationships with people and with our school work.
When we do not meet or realize all of these standards, our own learning or that of others is compromised. Below, we have detailed elements for consideration with respect to academic integrity.
Cheating
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Using any notes, study aids, or information on a test or quiz without the teacher’s permission.
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Allowing another person to do your work.
- Turning in the same papers for credit in more than one course without permission from the course instructors.
Plagiarism and Copyright
- Turning in material that in part or whole is not written by you (and not appropriately cited). • Using photographs or other digital media without citing sources.
Fabrication
- Making up information and presenting it as fact.
Obtaining an Unfair Advantage
- Stealing, reproducing and circulating any information about tests and quizzes.
- Stealing, destroying, defacing or hiding learning commons materials with the purpose of keeping it from others.
- Working with other students on any assignments without the teacher’s permission.
- Retaining, possessing, using or giving away exam materials without the teacher’s permission.
- Intentionally interfering with another student’s work.
- Doing anything with the purpose of creating or obtaining an unfair academic advantage.
- Helping Others Be Dishonest
- Helping others to do any of the things mentioned previously.
- Lending your work to someone else.
- Changing Documents and Permission Slips
- Changing any school papers concerning your grades.
- Forging anyone’s signature or giving any false information of any kind including permission.
- Looking at or Tampering with any Official School Document
- Viewing or altering computer records.
- Modifying or deleting files from the assignments or transfer folder without permission.
- Modifying computer programs or systems.
- Interfering with the use or availability of computer systems or information.
Roles and Responsibilities in Academic Integrity
Students
- Ensuring familiarity with the academic honesty policy
- Signing the policy document to confirm their agreement
- Organizing time to avoid last minute work which leads to temptation to plagiarize
- Asking teachers, the librarian or DP coordinator when unsure how to cite a source
- Avoiding asking and/or giving an unfair advantage to a peer by sharing your homework/ assessment when requested - even if they say they will not copy it!
Teachers
- Familiarizing themselves with the academic honesty policy, and sharing with students
- Modeling academic honesty by citing sources on the resources they create
- Applying the consequences consistently as outlined below
- Reporting cases of academic dishonesty to the Associate Principal and, when it concerns IB students, to the IB Coordinator
- Maintaining the integrity of examination paper questions and answers
Parents
- Familiarizing themselves with the academic honesty policy
- Signing the policy document to confirm their agreement
- Communicating with tutors about adhering to academic honesty expectations • Contacting teachers, the librarian or DP coordinator for clarification regarding academic honesty
Measures that support students in maintaining academic honesty
- Teachers provide students with guidance on how to acknowledge sources, as appropriate for their subject area, such as MLA, Chicago Style, or APA
- Teachers provide students with guidance on how to use online bibliography tools
- IB students have access to the IB document “Effective Citing and Referencing”
- Teachers use the TurnitIn plagiarism checker for IB draft and final assignments as well as for other assignments, as appropriate.
- Submission of draft assignments enables the teacher to understand the development of the student’s ideas
- Always take notes in your words, and never write your answers or essay while directly looking at your textbook or other source of information
- Create an ongoing record of source used during the research process
When students engage in academic dishonesty the act of being dishonest needs to be addressed; however, it needs to be separated out from student learning. Academic dishonesty will not be accepted, and students will receive a consequence.
All incidents will be reported to the administration for data entry into Veracross and parents will be notified. As to the learning process, students will be given an opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the content via an alternate assignment.
