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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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
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".
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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.
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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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