Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity (What does the IB say?)

The Diploma Programme prides itself on promoting high standards of academic honesty.

Academic honesty in the Diploma Programme is a set of values and behaviours informed by the attributes of the learner profile. In teaching, learning and assessment, academic honesty serves to promote personal integrity, engender respect for the integrity of others and their work, and ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they acquire during their studies.

All coursework—including work submitted for assessment—must be authentic, based on the student’s individual and original ideas with the ideas and work of others fully acknowledged. Assessment tasks that require teachers to provide guidance to students or that require students to work collaboratively must be completed in full compliance with the detailed guidelines provided by the IB for the relevant subjects.

How do we make sure we are demonstrating Academic Integrity?

• We keep an up to date Research Reflection Space

  1. 1. • The RRS allows us to show our thinking process and demonstrate how we developed the ideas for our work

• We use Noodle Tools to track our sources so that we can be sure to give credit to the texts that we have used thoughts and ideas from during our research process

• We do our work in a timely manner. Often academic integrity is challenged when we do our work at the last minute and forget to include sources.

• We do NOT access help from tutors and website. Our EE and SP are individual research work and not that of a tutor.

• We use TURNITIN to check our similarity to ensure that we are improving our writing

• We ask for help - from our supervisors, subject teachers and the EE/SP coordinator when necessary

• We ensure we are not practicing "double-dipping". (Double Dipping is using the data, research or writing for more than one assessment. Each subject has specific rules on what constitutes double dipping. Make sure to read your subject requirements carefully. If you have questions please see the EE Coordinator or your subject teacher.)