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Academic Integrity Policy
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Below are relevant excerpts of the UNIS Hanoi Secondary School Student Handbook. As part of the Personal Project submission, the student and their supervisor sign an Academic Honesty Form in which they declare the academic honesty of their work.
Aim
Aim
To nurture and promote an understanding of academic integrity as an integral part of learning.
Philosophy
Philosophy
In a community of allies, UNIS Hanoi accepts that a culture of honesty takes continuous effort to build and maintain teaching, learning, re-teaching, communicating, and reflecting.
Consequences of academic malpractice
Consequences of academic malpractice
In the Middle Years Programme: Teachers will inform Deputy Principals of concerns about academic malpractice using the Veracross behaviour alert. Principals will investigate and in conjunction with the teacher, a plan will be determined which may include students redoing the assessment under controlled conditions. The task will receive a NA (not assessed) for the assessment criterion or criteria affected by the misconduct. The student will receive feedback from the teacher. Parents will be informed.
In cases of suspected academic dishonesty, the burden of proof lies with the student. That is, a student may be required to defend work or demonstrate the same understanding or skills on a similar piece of work provided by the teacher. UNIS shares violations of Academic Honesty in High School with future schools and universities at the first offence when particularly egregious, and as a matter of course if there is more than one incidence.
Definition of academic integrity and malpractice
Definition of academic integrity and malpractice
The IBO defines Academic integrity “as a guiding principle in education and a choice to act in a responsible way whereby others can have trust in us as individuals. It is the foundation for ethical decision-making and behaviour in the production of legitimate, authentic and honest scholarly work” (Academic Integrity, 2019).
Plagiarism is a typical example of a breach of academic integrity. The IBO defines plagiarism as, “the representation, intentionally or unintentionally, of the ideas, words or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgement. This includes the use of translated materials” (Academic Integrity, p. 46).
Learning the Practice of Academic Integrity
Learning the Practice of Academic Integrity
“Academic honesty in the MYP 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.” (IBO, 2017)
All UNIS Hanoi teachers are responsible for guiding students in developing the Approaches to Learning attributes and skills required for learning in an academically honest manner. This includes (where feasible) checking drafts of the students work; ensuring students are aware of how to adequately research and cite; and using tools like Turnitin.
Learning provisions about academic integrity
Learning provisions about academic integrity
Students in Grades 6-8 learn about academic integrity and intellectual property in their classes. Students from Grades 9-12 build on the understanding developed in all classes about academic honesty and integrity delivered by the Secondary School Librarian as part of the preparation for Personal Project and Extended Essay.
The academically honest student does:
Ensure that all teachers have access to their work at all times by using the unishanoi.org email accounts and documentation system.
Ensure that the work process is transparent at all times
Take responsibility for the originality of the work they submit
Acknowledge help from others, e.g. parents, older students, tutors, friends
Acknowledge information taken from other sources, e.g. books, Internet, videos
Attribute items copied from other sources, e.g. quotations, music, images
Use a citation tool to create a reference list of information sources
Know academically honest behaviours and abides by the expectations
Respect examination and test conditions
Understand beforehand what kind of, if any, collaboration or assistance is allowed.
The academically honest student does not:
Use notes during a test unless allowed by a teacher
Have phone in the classroom during test conditions
Copy from another student during a test
Copy from the homework of another student
Give another student his/her own work to copy
Give file/document access to other students or other people
Move or remove documents from the school’s digital storage system
Remove teacher or school access to documents
Work in non unishanoi.org digital platforms unless previously agreed upon by teacher
Hand in work as his/her own that has been copied from somewhere else
Do homework for another student
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