Plagiarism

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You are ultimately responsible for ensuring that your Extended Essay is authentic, with the work or ideas of others fully and correctly acknowledged.

It is the responsibility of a supervisor to confirm that, for each student he or she has supervised, to the best of his or her knowledge, the version of the Extended Essay submitted for assessment is the authentic work of the student.

Both plagiarism and collusion are forms of academic misconduct that incur a penalty. The same piece of work, or two versions of the same work, cannot be submitted to meet the requirements of both the Extended Essay and another assessment component of a subject contributing to the Diploma or an additional certificate. You must ensure that have read and understood the school’s Academic Honesty Policy before you embark on the Extended Essay. A shortened version of the school's Academic Integrity Policy can be seen below.

Academic Integrity Policy at AISV

Academic Honesty is an important focus of both the International Baccalaureate Organization and AISV. As stated in the IB document “Academic Honesty in the IB Educational Context,” “All IB students understand the importance of acknowledging others because it is a central feature of the constructivist, inquiry-based approach promoted in all IB programmes; yet, in the DP, this requires the explicit teaching and learning of specific conventions accepted in a community of learners for being transparent about the use of ideas and work of others.”

Students must use great care to always clearly acknowledge the ideas and words of other authors used in their work. Under no circumstances may students rely on outside help, such as a tutor, to write any piece of IB work being submitted for assessment. AISV provides IB students with the tools they need to ensure academic honesty. Students are taught how to use various research methods and the requirements of the citation systems in both their courses and their CORE classes.

They receive direct one-on-one guidance from a dedicated EE Coordinator with proven research skills. In addition, they have access to and are required to use Turnitin.com, the leading online plagiarism checker. Every candidate studying the Diploma Program, as a condition of enrollment and regardless of their registration category, must sign a Statement of Academic Integrity stating that all work they submit for assessment will be their own authentic work. This will cover all class assignments, homework assignments and work undertaken for IB assessments.

For each assignment submitted to the IB for external or internal assessment, the candidate must sign a Statement of Authenticity, which declares that the work submitted by the candidate is the correct and final version, and that the candidate gives consent for the work to be submitted to the IB. In addition, all IB teachers check the authenticity of student work through the use of Turnitin.com. The school will not submit work which has not been authenticated by both the teacher and the student.

Use of AI in the Extended Essay

The IB also addresses the use of AI document “Academic Honesty in the IB Educational Context" in Appendix 6, pages 53-55.

The expectation of the IB is that candidates submit original, authentic work.

If AI is used as a tool (example: assisting in generating ideas for a research question or organizing research notes into an outline), the candidate should be transparent about its use.

All final essays will be run through Turnitin.com that includes AI detection.

Grammarly & other Ai grammar tools

Grammarly can be used to detect and correct spelling and grammar errors.

It becomes an issue of academic integrity when Grammarly or other similar AI tools are used to change the structure of sections of writing or to re-write sections of the essay for you.

Ethical Guidelines for essays involving fieldwork, research involving working with people, working in laboratories, working with animals

The following guidelines apply to research and fieldwork in all extended essays. It is also important to be aware of the IB’s animal experimentation policy, which provides details on what is and is not allowed when conducting research with animals and humans.

• Extended essay students must exercise the greatest sensitivity to local and international cultures.

• Any research/fieldwork that creates anxiety, stress, pain or discomfort for participants is not permitted.

• Any research/fieldwork that involves unjustified deception, involuntary participation or invasion of privacy, including inappropriate use of information technology (IT), email and the internet, is prohibited.

• All participants in research activities must be informed before commencing the research that they have the right to withdraw at any time. Pressure must not be placed on any individual participant to continue with the investigation beyond this point.

• Each participant must be informed of the aims and objectives of the research and in addition be shown the results of the research.

• Informed consent should be obtained from the people who are the subject of the fieldwork. Research involving children needs the written consent of parent(s) or guardian(s). Students must ensure that parents are fully informed about the implications for children who take part in such research. Where research is conducted with children in a school, the written consent of the teachers concerned must also be obtained.

• Extended essay students must avoid conducting research with any adult who is not in a fit state of mind and cannot respond freely and independently. If any participant shows stress and/or pain at any stage of the research, the research must finish immediately, and the participant must be allowed to withdraw.

• Participants must be debriefed and given the right to withdraw their own personal data and responses. Anonymity for each participant must be guaranteed.

• All data collected must be kept in a confidential and responsible manner and not divulged to any other person.

• Research that is conducted online, using IT methods, is subject to the same guidelines. Any data collected online must be deleted once the research has been completed. Such data must not be used for any purpose other than the conduct of the research.

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