Academic Honesty Policy


Academic honesty is a cornerstone in educational practice; at PCIS we value the integrity that comes with academic honesty and see it as the responsibility of teachers, students, parents, and the school community as a whole to promote PRINCIPLED students.


Over the course of the MYP program teachers will promote and educate students on how to be academically honest, providing them with the appropriate skills needed to be successful as they continue on their academic journey, and beyond.


Academic Malpractice

Malpractice of academic honesty may include any actions or behaviours that are dishonest and give students an unfair advantage in their work. 

Most notably this will include;

  • Plagiarism - the use of another persons work as ones own

  • Collusion - cooperation in order to copy or conduct other acts of malpractice

  • Duplication - the use of previously assessed work as new and original


Students’ Responsibility

  • Students will reference/cite others’ work when used

  • Students will submit their own work

  • Students will seek help if unclear of honesty procedure

  • Students will not collude in order to gain an unfair advantage


Teachers’ Responsibility

Teachers will educate students about academic honesty and the necessary skills

Teachers will promote the use of academic honesty in their subject

Teachers will be open and clear about individual and group assignments

Teachers will model academic honesty in their own work

Teachers will report any incidence of malpractice to subject leaders


Parents’ Responsibility

Parents should promote academic honesty outside of school

Parents should not collude with students in their assessments

Parents should not utilise tutors to collude with students in their assessments


Procedure

Students are expected to use the Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines when appropriate, during closed book assessments to cite and reference appropriately, given the limited nature of the assessment. 


Book e.g. - Henley, Patricia. The Hummingbird House. MacMurray, 1999.


Website e.g, - Lundman, Susan. "How to Make Vegetarian Chili." eHow, www.ehow.com/how_10727_make-vegetarian-chili.html.


Students who are found to have conducted malpractice in any form will receive 0 as a result for said piece of work and be referred to subject leaders/homeroom teachers.






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