OWNCS IB POLICY  Corner

Academic honesty involves integrity in teaching, learning, and assessment. This means that students must respect the intellectual property of others and submit work that is their original creation. Should students choose to use the ideas of others, they must cite their sources appropriately. As such, students at OWNCS are provided with a style guide outlining the correct use of MLA format. All teachers in all subjects are required to ensure that citations are appropriately used and correctly referenced. In addition, the school’s librarian serves as a resource for training students in the correct use of the style guide.

IB defines academic misconduct as, “deliberate or inadvertent behavior that has the potential to result in the student, or anyone else, gaining an unfair advantage in one or more components of assessment.” In addition, “behavior that may disadvantage another student is also regarded as academic misconduct.”