Academic Honesty Form

At three meetings throughout the year you should get your Academic Honesty Form signed by your supervisor. You need to talk about the sources you are using and how you are making sure the work is your own. Your supervisor should write comments on the page soon. You should get your Academic Honesty Form signed at the end of the project, and should submit this along with your final report and evidence of product/outcome.

You do not have to fill in the school code or student code.

Please make a copy of this Academic Honesty Form.

All students who participate in the Personal Project need to be aware of the Academic Honesty Policy for the MYP on the Merici College website. At Merici College we expect all students to uphold the highest academic and ethical standards whilst compiling their research and developing the analysis for their project. All students are forbidden to: plagiarize, cheat, copy published works without proper citations or use the work of another student and claim it is as their own. Since Personal Projects are completed on an individual basis, the use of collaboration for reasons other than process or research is also forbidden.

Plagiarism is the most common form of academic malpractice we have discovered in the Personal Project. Plagiarism- The practice of taking someone else’s work or ideas and passing them off as one’s own. This includes uses someone else’s direct words or a direct paraphrase of someone else’s work. In the event that you use another author’s ideas, it is imperative that you use the proper documentation to give credit to the original writer and the original idea.

If your Personal Project Supervisor or the MYP Coordinator feel that you have committed academic malpractice we MUST compile direct evidence and begin procedures for the consequences, see detail provided in Academic Honesty Policy document:

In the junior years, the emphasis on penalties for academic dishonesty is in the learning and reflection process.

All concerns about academic dishonesty will be investigated initially by the subject teacher involved and students must be given the opportunity to explain her case before a penalty is applied.

Any student suspected of academic dishonesty must be given a fair hearing and the opportunity to provide evidence of authorship.

Any work that is found to show evidence of academic dishonesty will involve the student in a restorative process.

1) In first instance the student will be interviewed about the concern by the subject teacher. The subject teacher is expected to inform the Studies Coordinator about the incident and provide support to help the student correct the error.

2) This should be recorded on the school’s database for behaviour incidents. The student must be provided with support so they can avoid making the same mistake again.

3) Student may be asked to sit again for the assessment item or resubmit work to show evidence of learning, or the teacher may mark the item of work without the plagiarised section, alternatively the student may be asked to complete an alternative assessment / piece of work.

4) Ongoing incidents of academic dishonesty will involve the family of the student and more senior staff determined by the severity and frequency of concern e.g. Studies Coordinator, Head of Junior School, Deputy Principal of Learning, Principal.