Academic Honesty

Academic malpractice (also known as academic dishonesty) includes, but is not limited to:

• Collusion: supporting malpractice committed by another student, such as by allowing them to copy work or submitting work done by another student as one’s own. It also includes working with others on supposedly individual assignments, or allowing another person (student, parent or tutor) to revise, edit or write work which is then submitted as the student’s own.

• Duplication: re-submitting a piece of work for more than one assessment.

• Fabricating data: making up results for experiments or creating false citations.

• Falsifying student records: for example, adjusting grades or teachers’ comments.

• Plagiarism: representing ideas or the work of others as one’s own. It may involve copying another student’s work, failing to correctly acknowledge (cite) the sources used or including in-text citations that do not match the Works Cited page.

• Unfair advantage: any behaviour that gains, or attempts to gain an unfair advantage for one student or affects the work of other students, such as taking unauthorized materials into an examination, disruptive behavior in examinations, damaging work of other students, stealing examination/test papers or downloading them from the internet.

Examples:

Copying the homework of another student; failing to cite sources appropriately; working with others on work which was intended to be individual; taking notes into tests.

The teacher will inform the relevant Head of Division and a meeting will be held with the student. The incident will be clarified, feedback will be given, and a note will be placed in the student’s record. A letter confirming the outcome of the meeting will be issued to the parents. The student will receive retraining and may be allowed to resubmit the piece of work for teacher feedback. The student’s attitudes grade will be negatively affected.

Examples:

Recurrence of Tier One malpractice; submitting work completed by someone else; using unauthorised materials in a class test or assessment.

The teacher will inform the relevant Head of Division and a meeting will be held with the student and their parent/guardian. The incident will be clarified, feedback will be given and remedial training will be organized for the student. A note will be placed in the student’s file.The piece of work or assignment concerned may be re-submitted. A written warning will be issued via the parents and a copy of this placed in the student’s file. The student’s attitudes grade will be negatively affected.

Examples:

Recurrence of Tier Two malpractice; Cheating in examinations; stealing examination papers; falsifying student records; plagiarizing an assignment to be submitted externally to the IB.

The teacher will inform the relevant Head of Division and a meeting will be held with the student and the parents. The student may be suspended or their place at the school may be at risk.

External sanctions are applied by the IB and relate specifically to all pieces of work which count towards the formal awarding of an IB qualification or certificate, such as the Personal Project, ePortfolio work, Extended Essay, Theory of Knowledge (TOK) Essay and Internal Assessments (IAs). If academic dishonesty is suspected in the first draft of an IA, Personal Project, Extended Essay or TOK essay it is likely that it will be dealt with by the school’s internal sanctions. However, if malpractice occurs at later stages, the IB MYP and DP Coordinators must report it to the IB Curriculum and Assessment Office for investigation.

If malpractice is suspected to have occurred during an examination or if it is suspected by an IB examiner or other IB staff member then an investigation may be called which may ultimately result in no grade being awarded for the specific subject involved or the IB MYP Certificate or Diploma being withdrawn.

Click here for the SISQ Academic Policy

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Click here for the guide to Citation document

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