Students need to be aware of the importance of academic integrity. Expectations for ethical behavior arise from the philosophy and values inherent and explicit in all school programs. All students are expected to participate in the program as structured and required by the school to comply with all subject-specific regulations and internal school deadlines in accordance with the regulations for academic integrity set by the International Baccalaureate.
The school expects students to work together and to help each other learn and encourages a classroom environment in which the ideas of students are valued both by the teacher and by fellow students.
Students may get help from a parent in understanding an assignment or in solving a problem. Parents and students should realize that the purpose of the homework is to reinforce what the child has been doing in the class and to solidify understanding. Therefore, parents who help children with their homework should ensure that the student is confident, after receiving help, to solve the problems or do the work independently. This same thinking applies when a student receives help from another student.
Most tests, quizzes, and written assignments (compositions, research papers, and so forth) are intended by the teacher to be done independently by the student. Students who copy information from another student, or who in any way present work or ideas as their own when they were taken directly from someone or someplace else, have violated the code of academic integrity.
AISL students are responsible for engaging in academic integrity by doing the following:
Making sure that all work submitted for assessment is authentically created and produced by the student
Reviewing their own work to identify any ideas, sources, and work that need to be acknowledged
Acknowledging the authors and owners of ideas, texts, data, and work that inform their learning in using the most recent version of MLA to create in-text citations and Works Cited lists.
Submitting work to ManageBac in pdf or Microsoft Word format so that it can be run through Turnitin (Grades 10 -12) AISL subscribes to the plagiarism prevention program Turnitin.com for Grade 1- -12. Most assignments and all internal assessments will be submitted to Turnitin.com and available for review by the instructor and MYP/DP coordinator.
Speaking with teachers regularly about their work, including possibly showing drafts and notes
Proving that their work is their own, if questioned
Recognizing that the responsibility for academic malpractice is the student’s
Signing the MYP Personal Project’s academic integrity declaration when uploading work to IBIS
Submitting work (Personal project report) to the IB that is authentic on the first upload; work cannot be re-submitted
AISL teachers should model and teach academically honest behaviors. Specifically, AISL teachers are responsible for:
Providing a safe, fair, and supportive environment in which students can learn about academic integrity issues and responsibilities
Modeling academically honest behaviors
Recording each incident of academic malpractice on the Academic Integrity Issues Form
The AISL administration are responsible for:
Applying the academic integrity policies fairly and with consistency
Providing a safe environment for teaching and learning
Providing professional development for teachers
Promoting parent awareness
Assisting student learning
Modeling academically honest behaviors
AISL parents are encouraged to:
Understand and support AISL’s academic integrity policy and discuss it with their children
Ensure that they are aware of deadlines and support children in meeting deadlines
Encourage students to communicate with teachers about academic integrity question
Contact the teacher or Principal/Assistant Principal with any questions about what constitutes help and what constitutes malpractice
In August/September of each year, all students review Academic Integrity expectations in Ubuntu and sign a declaration of academic integrity wich is kept on file by the Coordinators.
Academic Malpractice,
Students engage in academic malpractice when they engage in any behavior that results in the student gaining an unfair advantage on any assessment (formative or summative). Definitions of Violations of the Academic Integrity Policy include
Plagiarism: using someone else’s ideas, words, and work and passing it off as the student’s, whether intentionally or not;
Collusion: helping someone else by letting them copy or submit work that is not their own;
Duplication of work: using the same work for different assessment components or different subjects; for example, submitting the same piece of work for a Language and Literature Extended Essay and a Language and Literature written task;
Cheating: “using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, assistance, and/or aids in an effort to gain an unfair advantage” (“Academic Integrity in the DP” ibid.).
Malpractice includes, but is not limited to, the following examples:
Presenting materials taken from sources, such as books, periodicals, newspapers, or the Internet, without appropriate citation.
Copying another student's work and claiming it as one’s own.
Allowing another student to copy your work.
Receiving unauthorized help on an assignment from another person, either live or over the Internet.
Changing answers on an assessment after grading.
Using technology (iPads, calculators, phones) in a manner not specified by the teacher.
Unauthorized use of an electronic translator for foreign language.
Fabrication of data in a lab setting or for an assignment.
Using concealed notes on a test.
Attempting to receive credit for the same work in two different classes without teacher authorization.
Providing or accepting information regarding specific test content.
Writing a sentence/passage of text into a digital translator (e.g. Google Translate), and then submitting the translated text as your own.
Providing unwarranted access to materials or information to another student.
Uploading a corrupt file to Toddle to make it appear that the student has submitted complete work.
In the event of a students malpractice, one or more of the following will occur: the work will not be assessed, the student will be required to redo the work, the student’s parents will be notified. Repeated results may result in a student being asked to leave AISL.
DP STUDENTS: Please note that violation of the academic integrity policy on any assignment that is to be submitted to the IB as part of internal or external assessment will result in disqualification from that subject or program component. Students should be aware that this will often result in the delay of completion of the subject involved and will prevent them from earning an IB diploma in their first exam session. Students may petition to register for retakes in a later examination session.