Academic Honesty Form

It is MANDATORY that the students record three meeting reflections on the Academic Honesty Form in Toddle. The Mentor's role is to review the notes for accuracy and then lock them. 

The Academic Honesty form is a 500 word reflection that highlights the student’s progress through the inquiry cycle with the support of their Mentor. It validates that the Mentor has been aware of the process and that they can authenticate that the student’s work is their own academic voice and writing. 

Academic Honesty 1 (approximately 150 words) 

In the first reflection, the student discusses how they chose their topic and did their initial research. They may write about seeking Mentor assistance in refining their research question. 

The purpose of this reflection is to prove that the student developed the idea on their own. If they download someone’s Personal Project from the internet and present it to their Mentor, they won’t be able to describe the cognitive friction that comes with grappling with potential topics. They won’t have the beneficial frustration of word-smithing the perfect research questions for their learning goals.

The Mentor must be aware of this process and attest that it belongs to their student. 

Academic Honesty 2 (approximately 200 words) 

In the second reflection, the student reflects on how they created their product. They might write about developing their success criteria and making their specification rubrics. They could write about problems that arose in their creative process, the additional research required, and the decisions made. They could talk about the advice they sought (social skills) and the communications they used (e.g. emails, notes, etc.)

The purpose of this reflection is to prove that the student produced the product on their own. If a student is learning to sew and comes back with a beautiful, perfect hoodie, then there may be questions about whether a local tailor “helped.”  The Mentor should look through the student’s process journal for pictures of the student cutting fabric, sewing, ironing, etc. The Mentor should be looking for sewing mistakes that beginners make and what the student learned from them.

Again, the Mentor must be aware of how the product progresses and attest that the product was made (or the outcome was accomplished) by the student.  

Academic Honesty 3 (approximately 150 words) 

In the third (last) reflection, the student reflects on how they gathered data for the evaluation of their product and how they put their report together. They might discuss their survey samples or the data gathered in their experiments. They might discuss their pride in their final product and whether they think they accomplished their goal. They could also discuss feedback given on their draft Report and any changes they made.

The purpose of this reflection is to authenticate that the student wrote the Report on their own. If they copy a Report from the internet or generate it with AI, they won’t be able to discuss their first draft and the feedback from their Mentor. They won’t be able to discuss the surveys they conducted on their classmates. 

Again, the Mentor must be aware of how the Report was written from the draft, through revision, to the final submission.

Signed Academic Honesty Form

Once the three Academic Honesty reflections have been reveiwed and locked, the mentor writes a comment that includes reference to the fact that they met regularly with the student and that they can verify that the student's work, product, and report were authentically their own. 

Upload a digital signature, if desired. Then the Mentor ticks the "Mark AHF as complete." 

Mentors do this only if they can authenticate that the report and all other aspects of the Product are the student's own work. 

The Coordinator will download and print the forms and seek signatures for the several submissions that will be uploaded to the IB for external standardization (if digital signatures were not uploaded).