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.
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