Academic Honesty at Eerde – Student Guide

At Eerde, we believe learning is valuable in itself – not just for grades or university, but because knowledge and understanding help us grow as people. That’s why we take academic honesty seriously.

What Academic Honesty Means

Being academically honest means:

• Doing your own work.

• Giving credit when you use someone else’s ideas, words, images, or data.

• Being open and transparent about when you’ve had help (from people or AI).

When you’re honest in your work, your grades reflect your own effort and progress – and that’s something to be proud of.

What Counts as Academic Misconduct

Here are the main things you need to avoid:

• Plagiarism – Copying someone else’s work (including AI-generated content) without proper acknowledgment.

• Collusion – Helping someone else cheat, like sharing answers or secretly working together on individual assignments.

• Making up data – Inventing results or changing data in research or experiments.

• Cheating in tests/exams – Using notes, phones, or talking to others when not allowed.

• Sharing exam content – Telling others what was on an exam, especially online, within 24 hours.

Examples: Copy-pasting from websites without citation, asking someone else to rewrite your essay, or using ChatGPT to write an assignment and pretending it’s yours.

What Happens if You’re Caught

• First time – Grade 0 for that piece, meeting with your Coordinator, warning recorded.

• Second time – Another 0, parents contacted, possible Academic Probation.

• Repeated misconduct – May lead to a school leadership review of your place at Eerde.

• External exams (IGCSE/IBDP) – Misconduct gets reported to the exam board, which may cancel your grades.

We want mistakes to become learning opportunities, so support like workshops, mentorship, and reflective tasks are offered after an incident.

AI Use at Eerde – The Traffic Light System

AI tools (like ChatGPT, Grammarly, or image generators) can be great learning helpers – but only if used responsibly. That’s why we use a traffic light system to show what’s OK, what’s limited, and what’s not allowed.

Academic Honesty Policy

AI Policy