Academic Honesty

As a student of the IB Diploma program of Clarkstown High School North, you are expected to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. All IB Diploma students are required to exhibit behavior consistent with the school/district code of conduct. Severe violations may lead to exit from the program.

The Clarkstown Central School District Conduct and Discipline Policy prohibits the following forms of academic misconduct:

  • Plagiarism

  • Cheating

  • Copying

  • Altering records

  • Assisting another student in any of the above actions

International Baccalaureate policy statements on malpractice are as follows:

  • Where malpractice is proven, a grade of “N” is awarded and no further registration by the candidate is allowed.

  • If malpractice, collusion or plagiarism is suspected in external or internally assessed components of the examination, IBCA must be contacted immediately.


CHSN ACADEMIC HONESTY

Academic honesty is a fundamental principle for all educational institutions. It means that you assume responsibility for your own work at all times and your individual contribution to group work as assigned by your teacher. What you do represents who you are. It is important for you to act in an ethically responsible manner.


SOME EXAMPLES OF VIOLATION OF ACADEMIC HONESTY

Any action intended to obtain or assist in obtaining credit for work that is not one’s own is considered academic dishonesty. Such conduct includes, but is not limited to the following:

a. Submitting another person’s work as one’s own work;

b. Obtaining or accepting a copy of any assessments, tests, or scoring devices;

c. Giving test questions or answers to a member of any class, or receiving test questions or answers from a member of any class;

d. Copying from another student’s tests or allowing another student to copy during a test;

e. Using materials which are not permitted during a test;

f. Plagiarizing (presenting as one’s own material copied without adequate documentation from a published source);

g. Copying or having someone other than the student prepare the student’s homework, paper, project, laboratory report, or take-home test;

h. Permitting another student to copy, or writing another student’s homework, project, report, paper, or take-home test;

i. Falsely claiming illness to avoid the date on which a paper, project, report, or presentation is due, or a test is given;

j. Using an on-line translator in writing assignments and projects and to prepare for oral presentations; (use of an on-line dictionary to look up isolated words is permitted);

k. Unlawful copying of computer software or data created by others;

l. Misusing district computer systems that are used for student, staff, or administrative purposes;

m. Providing classwork, homework, writing, or any other assigned work to another student when that work is meant to be completed individually, regardless of intent;

n. Collaboration on studying or homework is not considered academic dishonesty unless it is prohibited or limited by procedures established by the teacher.


PENALTIES

Students who have violated the Academic Honesty Policy will be disciplined in one or more of the following ways:

1. Referral to school administrator.

2. Receipt of a zero on a test or assignment (with the expectation that the student may be required to redo or make up the work without credit);

3. Detention/suspension from school;

4. Removal from the course and receipt of a failing grade (DF) drop fail;

5. Placement in the permanent file of a written statement summarizing the violation;

6. Denied admission into any or all of the school’s Honor Societies (including the National Honor Society);

7. Removal as a member from any or all of the school’s Honor Societies (including the National Honor Society);


Other penalties may be assigned at the discretion of the school administrators.