Academic Honesty

Upper School’s Academic Honesty Policy is posted on our website.

We, the Lakes International Language Academy community, seek to foster the IB Learner Profile Attributes in all students. The LILA faculty believes that academic integrity is crucial to the core values implicit in the Learner Profile. As the Learner Profile is taught to our students, the faculty will explore the Principled attribute in its definitions as it applies to core values as well as both personal and academic integrity. We wish to uphold the educational philosophy of the IB and our school. 

Academic honesty agreement

The LILA community seeks to highly discourage academic misconduct. Examples of academic misconduct are outlined in this agreement. Students are expected to agree to refrain from engaging in academic misconduct for all formative and summative assignments/assessments. 

All students in the LILA community agree to refrain from engaging in the following breaches to IB regulations: 

• Plagiarism: The representation, intentionally or unwittingly, of the ideas, words, or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgment.

• Collusion:  Supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another student.

Consequences for violation

Violation of the above standards on/during a LILA-level formative or summative assessment could include a zero on the exercise, a referral to administration, and parent/guardian contact.