Academic Honesty Policy
What is Academic Malpractice?
The International Baccalaureate Organization refers to violations of academic dishonesty as malpractice. Malpractice can take multiple forms, including:
Plagiarism - presenting others’ ideas as your own without proper acknowledgement. This can be either intentional or unintentional.
Collusion - Allowing someone to copy your work or completing an assignment for someone else.
Ghost Writing - Purchasing a paper or other types of assignments or having someone complete assignments for you.
Disclosure - Revealing the questions or tasks on an exam before the exam.
Fabrication of data - Falsifying information for a project or exploration. This includes falsifying CAS hours.
Academic Honesty FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Academic Malpractice mean?
Academic malpractice is anytime you represent someone else’s work as your own. This could mean passing a paper someone else wrote as your own, using the same assignment for two classes without permission, copying someone’s homework, or plagiarising. Academic malpractice also includes letting someone copy your work or not telling a teacher if you know copying is happening.
What is plagiarism?
Plagiarism is when you take someone else's work and present it as your own either intentionally or unintentionally. Unintentional plagiarism is when you don’t cite your sources.
What do I cite?
Dates
Statistics
Direct Quotes
Other people's ideas (Solutions to problems, experiments, etc.)
Images
Graphs
Music
Other people’s intellectual property
Who/What can I cite?
Experts
News articles
Academic Journals
Any source that passes the CARS test (credibility, accuracy, reasonableness and support)
Interviews
Documentaries
Who/What cannot be cited?
Your teacher (unless they are a published expert in the field)
Blogs
Family members (unless they are a published expert in the field)
Wikipedia
What are the subject-specific citation styles?
In the Middle School, students are expected to master and use MLA.
In the High School, students are expected to build fluency in subject-specific citation styles to reflect the needs of the courses.
Language and Literature (MLA citation)
Language Acquisition
Individuals and Societies
Mathematics
Sciences (CSE)
Visual and Performing Arts
Academic Honesty in Virtual School
NOVA ACADEMIC HONESTY AGREEMENT
Distance Learning presents unique challenges to academic honesty. In these uncertain times it is important to remind ourselves of what constitutes academic malpractice and renew our pledge to academic honesty.
Academic malpractice includes:
Plagiarism - presenting others’ ideas as your own without proper acknowledgement. This can be either intentional or unintentional.
Collusion - Allowing someone to copy your work or completing an assignment for someone else.
Ghost Writing - Purchasing a paper or other types of assignments or having someone complete assignments for you.
Disclosure - Revealing the questions or tasks on an exam before the exam.
Fabrication of data - Falsifying information for a project or exploration. This includes falsifying CAS hours.
To avoid any form of academic malpractice, students should:
Read and sign the academic honesty policy by using the google form sent (by clicking accept you agree to all terms).
At the High School level, begin and complete all assignments on Google Documents. Submit all written assignments through Turnitin.
At the Middle and Elementary levels utilize MLA formatting for all academic writing. As well as completing written assignments through Google Documents.
At the High School level, use subject-specific citation formats (MLA, Chicago Style, APA).
Ask for clarification through email of any and all matters relating to academic honesty.
Ensure all work is one’s own.
Respect deadlines communicated by your teachers.
Recognize that sharing your work with others exposes you to risks stemming from their potential misuse of your work. Avoid sharing your work with others if you suspect that your work may be copied.
Parent Responsibility:
Read and become familiar with NOVA’s Academic Honesty Policy.
Not support any attempt at ghost-writing (this includes acquaintances, family members, or tutors providing assistance for assignments).
Monitor your child’s work and, where possible, seek to discuss the importance of source attribution.
Recognize that repeated violation of NOVA’s Academic Honesty Policy may be grounds for formal censure/not completing the academic year.
Student Signature Parent Signature