Academic Honesty

VIS and the IBO take the issue of academic honesty very seriously, and encourage students to be honest, fair, responsible,

rigorous and to respect others when producing work for assessment. In line with IB philosophy, VIS will teach students how to follow accepted academic practices and encourage them to seek guidance beforehand if they have concerns about the academic integrity of their work.

Academic dishonesty includes but is not limited to:

  1. Plagiarism: the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate’s own

  2. Collusion: supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another (student)

  3. Duplication of work: the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements

  4. Cheating: the use or attempt to use unauthorized materials, information, or study aids in any examination or classroom assessment

  5. Fabrication - the falsification or invention of any information or citation in an academic exercise

  6. Offering bribery for grades, transcripts, or diplomas;

  7. Obtaining or giving aid on an examination

  8. Presenting another’s work as one’s own or doing work for another student

  9. Having unauthorized prior knowledge of an examination;

  10. Using a proxy during an examination

  11. Other: 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)

Consequences for academic dishonesty in the Diploma Programme may include:

  • A requirement to complete appropriate remedial work

  • A reduction in the grade for the work in question

  • A zero or a fail grade for the work in question

  • Failure of the IB Diploma.

  • Lifetime ban from IB activities