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"Failure to comply with this requirement will be viewed as academic misconduct and will, therefore, be treated as a potential breach of IB regulations"¹.
"Failure to comply with this requirement will be viewed as academic misconduct and will, therefore, be treated as a potential breach of IB regulations"¹.
"Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge² ".
"Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else’s work, including the work of other students, as one’s own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge² ".
A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another person without acknowledgement.
A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness whenever:
Directly quoting another person’s actual words, whether oral or written;
Using another person’s ideas, opinions, or theories;
Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written;
Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative materials; or
Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgement³.
How does the IB define malpractice?
How does the IB define malpractice?
Malpractice also includes:
Plagiarism: is defined as the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate's own
Collusion: is defined as supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another
Duplication of work: is defined as the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements
Fabrication of data: the manufacturing of data for a table, survey or other such requirement will be interpreted as an attempt to gain an unfair advantage in an assessment component
any other behavior 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.)⁴
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