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PKUES (Jiaxing)

Academic Honesty Policy


PHILOSOPHY OF ACADEMIC HONESTY

PKUES seeks to maintain a culture of academic honesty among its students, teachers, and administration. The
schools policy is designed to promote academic honesty throughout the whole school community and to
ensure the authenticity of student work. As stated by the International Baccalaureate Organization,
Academic honesty must be seen as a set of values and skills that promote personal integrity and good practice
in teaching, learning and assessment. It is influenced and shaped by a variety of factors including peer pressure,
culture, parental expectations, role modeling and taught skill.1
At PKUES we continue to work on the importance of student ethical behavior through the use of a number of
practical approaches that help to prevent student dishonesty and cheating before it occurs. We also enforce
strict consequences for those who knowingly commit such breaches as dishonesty undermines the integrity of
the whole school community as well as that of the whole IBO program.

DEFINITION OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY


At PKUES academic dishonesty is considered unacceptable because it results in, or may result in, the candidate
or any other candidate gaining an unfair advantage in one or more assessment components and does not
honestly reflect a students individual effort.
Academic Dishonesty includes:
PLAGIRISAM: Copying or borrowing answers or ideas from anothers work, or other sources without proper
credit or acknowledgement.
DUPLICATION OF WORK: Presenting the same work as another student.
COLLUSION: Allowing another student to copy or borrow ones work
CHEATING: Using any kind of non-permitted aid, during tests or quizzes, such as: study aides/notes,
electronic devices, or other unauthorized information or provide information or answers for
another student during the test.
Any other behavior that gains an unfair advantage for a student or that affects the results of another student,
such as working together on assignments when the assignment is not given as a team or cooperative project.

INVESTIGATION OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY


The MYP Coordinator (and/or School Director) will investigate any suspected acts of dishonesty so that the
situation can be resolved immediately.
1. The teacher will notify the Programme Coordinator with supporting documentation if dishonesty is suspected.
The teacher will not make an open allegation to the student and any suspicion of dishonesty will be kept
confidential to the process.
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2. The Programme Coordinator will determine whether academic dishonesty has taken place based on
information gathered through the investigation. The investigation will include interviewing the student and
allowing the student to provide explanation.
3. If evidence of academic dishonesty is confirmed, the student and parents will be notified in writing and
informed of the consequences.
4. An appeal must be submitted within 7 school days of the date of the letter. The Principal will consider the
appeal. The Principals decision will be final and will be communicated to the student and parents in writing.
5. Copies of all records of investigation, correspondence and the assessment item will be retained in the
students file.

CONSEQUENCES OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY


Formative Assessment tasks
1. first offence: redo a different, yet similar, assessment task. The subject teacher must report the incident to
the MYP Coordinator. The incident will be documented and reported to parents.
2. second offence: be awarded an achievement level of zero for all criteria the task is assessed against. All
parties involved in any acts of collusion will also receive an achievement level of zero. A note justifying any
thus awarded 0 will be included in comments on the students report. Parents, homeroom teachers, and
school administration will be notified.
Summative Assessment Task and Formal Test
1. First offence: Be awarded a zero for the task and the test. The incident will be documented and reported
to parents.
2. Second Offence: Severe discipline consequences, such as, detention, suspension, or even expulsion may
happen.

STRATEGIES TO PREVENT ACADEMIC DISHONESTY


1. Students should make sure they understand the basics of citing sources within essays using the standard MLA
format, and understand the schools Honesty Policy for exam performance.
2. Students should also understand the consequences of breaking this code of conduct.
3. Students should ask the advice of their teachers regarding fair ways to complete their assignments and tests.
4. Students should always be able to present proof, when asked, about where they acquired their sources of
information.
5. Teachers should do their due diligence to adequately check all students work on assignments and tests using
various practical means. As stated by the International Baccalaureate Organization: It is the responsibility
of teachers to support candidates in the preparation of their work for assessment and to ensure that all
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candidates work complies with the requirements of the relevant subject guide.
6. When proctoring and correcting exams, all teachers should monitor the classroom carefully for cheating and
actively make a record of students who are caught cheating.
7. The School Administration should provide all teachers with the necessary tools to help them check for
plagiarism and cheating (i.e., Turnitin.com accounts and adequate support when cheating is detected during
monitoring)
8. Parents should review these rules with their student(s) so that the whole community is aware of the schools
Academic Honesty procedures.
9. Sign the honesty contract with parents and students at the admission time and inform them of the
consequences of cheating.
10. Give some instruction and training in the following aspects, to help students to know the appropriate way to
do their work.

How to use of the Library and Internet.


Basic Note taking skills.
Skills of Paraphrasing and adaptation of source material.
Ways to acknowledge informally in writing and speech.
Relevant use of direct quotations and citations.
Simple ways to acknowledge information derived from electronic sources.
Writing a bibliography.
What constitutes cheating.

STUDENT RESPONSIBILITIES:
1. Students should review and understand a teachers expectations for each assignment that is given.
2. Students have responsibility for ensuring that all work submitted for assessment is authentic, with the work or
ideas of others fully and correctly acknowledged using the MLA citation system.
3. Students should follow through with principled academic behavior and expect other students to also follow a
policy of integrity and decency.
4. Students should ask for clarification from teachers during the assignment process and have a clear
understanding of any aspect of Academic Honesty guidelines.
5. Students should review the schools general expectations regarding test-taking policies and grading.

TEACHER RESPONSIBLITIES
1. Explain and review the schools Academic Honesty Policy at the beginning of the school year.
2. Provide students with consistent advice on good academic practice when necessary.
3. Provide clear information on what group participation means and when it can be used in formulating
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assignments, homework, reports, tests, quizzes, and especially essays.


4. Provide the students with clear guidelines on what plagiarism is, including practice with citing sources
correctly under the MLA Format.
5. Consistently inspect students work through various professional ways, including but not limited to using the
website Turnitin.com.

REFERENCES
Academic Honesty (2009)
MYP: From Principles to Practice
BCIS Academic Honesty Policy
Tamagawa Academy Diploma Programme Academic Honesty Policy( 2010.4)

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Appendix

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ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY

I,

___________________________________(Printed

Name),

have

read

through and reviewed the Academic Honesty policy of PKUES (Jiaxing), and
promise to follow the procedures mentioned and set up by the school to encourage
academic integrity and to prevent plagiarism and cheating.

Signature:_____________________Date:_______________________

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Appendix
MLA Format for Footnotes and Works Cited Page
Below are standard formats and examples for basic bibliographic information recommended by the Modern
Language Association (MLA). For more information on the MLA format, see http://www.mla.org/style_faq.

Basics
Your list of works cited should begin at the end of the paper on a new page with the centered title,
Works Cited. Alphabetize the entries in your list by the author's last name, using the letter-by-letter
system (ignore spaces and other punctuation.) If the author's name is unknown, alphabetize by the
title, ignoring any A, An, or The.
For dates, spell out the names of months in the text of your paper, but abbreviate them in the list of
works cited, except for May, June, and July. Use either the day-month-year style (22 July 1999) or the
month-day-year style (July 22, 1999) and be consistent. With the month-day-year style, be sure to add
a comma after the year unless another punctuation mark goes there.

Italics?
When you use a computer, then publication names should be in italics as they are below. Always check
with your instructor regarding their preference of using italics or underlining. Our examples use italics.

Hanging Indentation
All MLA citations should use hanging indents, that is, the first line of an entry should be flush left, and
the second and subsequent lines should be indented 1/2".

Capitalization, Abbreviation, and Punctuation


The MLA guidelines specify using title case capitalization - capitalize the first words, the last words, and
all principal words, including those that follow hyphens in compound terms. Use lowercase
abbreviations to identify the parts of a work (e.g., vol. for volume, ed. for editor) except when these
designations follow a period. Whenever possible, use the appropriate abbreviated forms for the
publisher's name (Random instead of Random House).
Separate author, title, and publication information with a period followed by one space. Use a colon
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and a space to separate a title from a subtitle. Include other kinds of punctuation only if it is part of the
title. Use quotation marks to indicate the titles of short works appearing within larger works (e.g.,
"Memories of Childhood." American Short Stories). Also use quotation marks for titles of unpublished
works and songs.

Format Examples
Books
Format: Author's last name, first name. Book title. Additional information. City of publication:
Publishing company, publication date.
Examples:
Allen, Thomas B. Vanishing Wildlife of North America. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic
Society, 1974.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Creators: A History of the Heroes of the Imagination. New York: Random,
1992.
Hall, Donald, ed. The Oxford Book of American Literacy Anecdotes. New York: Oxford UP, 1981.
Searles, Baird, and Martin Last. A Reader's Guide to Science Fiction. New York: Facts on File, Inc.,
1979.
Toomer, Jean. Cane. Ed. Darwin T. Turner. New York: Norton, 1988.

Encyclopedia & Dictionary


Format: Author's last name, first name. "Title of Article." Title of Encyclopedia. Date.
Note: If the dictionary or encyclopedia arranges articles alphabetically, you may omit volume and page
numbers.
Examples:
"Azimuthal Equidistant Projection." Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 1993.
Pettingill, Olin Sewall, Jr. "Falcon and Falconry." World Book Encyclopedia. 1980.
Tobias, Richard. "Thurber, James." Encyclopedia Americana. 1991 ed.

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Magazine & Newspaper Articles


Format: Author's last name, first name. "Article title." Periodical title Volume # Date: inclusive pages.
NOTE: If an edition is named on the masthead, add a comma after the date and specify the edition.
Examples:
Hall, Trish. "IQ Scores Are Up, and Psychologists Wonder Why." New York Times 24 Feb. 1998, late ed.:
F1+.
Kalette, Denise. "California Town Counts Down to Big Quake." USA Today 9 21 July 1986: sec. A: 1.
Kanfer, Stefan. "Heard Any Good Books Lately?" Time 113 21 July 1986: 71-72.
Trillin, Calvin. "Culture Shopping." New Yorker 15 Feb. 1993: 48-51.

Website or Webpage
Format: Author's last name, first name (if available). "Title of work within a project or database." Title
of site, project, or database. Editor (if available). Electronic publication information (Date of publication
or of the latest update, and name of any sponsoring institution or organization). Date of access and
<full URL>.

NOTE: If you cannot find some of this information, cite what is available.
Examples:
Devitt, Terry. "Lightning injures four at music festival." The Why? Files. 2 Aug. 2001. 23 Jan. 2002
<http://whyfiles.org/137lightning/index.html>.
Dove, Rita. "Lady Freedom among Us." The Electronic Text Center. Ed. David Seaman. 1998. Alderman Lib., U of
Virginia. 19 June 1998 <http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/subjects/afam.html>.
Lancashire, Ian. Homepage. 28 Mar. 2002. 15 May 2002 <http://www.chass.utoronto.ca:8080/~ian/>.
Levy, Steven. "Great Minds, Great Ideas." Newsweek 27 May 2002. 10 June 2002
<http://www.msnbc.com/news/754336.asp>.

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Sample Works Cited Page[Bibliography]


"Battery." Encyclopedia Britannica. 1990.
"Best Batteries." Consumer Reports Magazine 32 Dec. 1994: 71-72.
Booth, Steven A. "High-Drain Alkaline AA-Batteries." Popular Electronics
62 Jan. 1999: 58.
Brain, Marshall. "How Batteries Work." howstuffworks. 1 Aug. 2006
<http://home.howstuffworks.com/battery.htm>.
"Cells and Batteries." The DK Science Encyclopedia. 1993.
Dell, R. M., and D. A. J. Rand. Understanding Batteries. Cambridge, UK:
The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2001.
"Learning Center." Energizer. Eveready Battery Company, Inc. 1 Aug. 2006
<http://www.energizer.com/learning/default.asp>.

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