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ISS Academic Honesty Guidelines
Rationale
At ISS International School, we educate all our students to understand the honest use of information in the context of their academic work, both in and out of school.
In that respect, the IB Learner Profile contributes towards developing the skills and the mindset required to achieve these objectives. In particular, the school aims at developing students who are ‘principled’ learners, displaying a clear understanding and consistent approach to undertaking academic work, knowing that they alone are responsbilble for their actions. ISS expects all members of the school community, students and staff, to adhere to the school’s Academic Honesty policy.
Definition of Academic Honesty
International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes define academic honesty on the International Baccalaureate Academic Honesty in the IB Educational Context. It is an expectation that staff at ISS are familiar with the information presented on this site and enact the best practice advised at an age appropriate level.
The definition of Academic Honesty provided by the IB in ‘Academic Honesty in the IB Educational Context is written below in italics and has been adopted by ISS as its own definition of Academic Honesty.
International Baccalaureate (IB) programmes encourage students to inquire and to think critically and creatively; students are then asked to give shape to their thinking through oral discussion or presentations, through visual representations and displays, and in multiple forms of writing. However, we live in an age in which we are all flooded by information and opinions. How can we help students navigate these waters so that they are able to confidently talk or write about what they are learning, making visible and explicit how they have constructed their ideas and what views they have followed or rejected? This is essentially what academic honesty is: making knowledge, understanding and thinking transparent.
Academic honesty in the IB and at ISS falls into four main categories: 1. Plagiarism and Referencing
2. Collaboration/Collusion
3. Duplication of work
4. Misconduct during a formal assessment
1. Plagiarism and Referencing
Definition: Plagiarism is defined as the representation, intentionally or unwittingly, of the ideas, words or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgment. The use of translated materials, unless indicated and acknowledged, is also considered plagiarism.
Avoiding Plagiarism
This section should be read in conjunction with the IB document/website ‘Effective citing and referencing’ IBO: 2014
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