Academic Integrity

Each student is ultimately responsible for ensuring that all work submitted for assessment is authentic, with the work or ideas of others fully and correctly acknowledged. Candidates are expected to comply with all internal school deadlines. This is for the student’s own benefit as it allows time for revising work that is of doubtful authorship before the submission of the final version.

Every DP student is expected to carefully read the Academic Integrity Policy as well as the Artificial Intelligence - Acceptable Use Guidelines and sign the Academic Integrity Contract. 

There are different types of Academic Misconduct in the IB: 

• Plagiarism - the representation, intentionally or unwittingly, of the ideas, words or work of another person or AI without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgment. The use of translated materials, unless indicated and acknowledged, is also considered plagiarism. The IB uses plagiarism detection software to identify when this occurs. 

• Collusion - supporting academic misconduct by another student, for example allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another. This also includes presenting copied or duplicated work produced by another student as original. 

• Misconduct - during an IB examination includes taking unauthorised material into an exam room, disruptive behaviour and communicating with others during the examination. - 

• Communication about the content of an examination - 24 hours before or after the exam with others outside their school community is also considered a breach to IB regulations. 

• Duplication of work - the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or Diploma Programme requirements. -

• Inappropriate use of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) - when a student uses AI tools to create new content, submits it as their own original work, and fails to appropriately acknowledge the use of AI in their submission for assessment. If AI is used, this must be in line with the schools Artificial Intelligence - Acceptable Use Guidelines.

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).