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I. duPont High School Academic Integrity Policy It
is our mission to provide for the health, safety, welfare, and
education of our students. Part of that mission includes issues
of ethics and academic integrity. Knowledge of appropriate practices
prepares students to be responsible citizens of the learning
community and society.
What is academic integrity?
Academic integrity applies high
ethical standards to teaching and learning with respect
for knowledge, truth, and fairness. Students are
responsible for scholastic honesty and for practicing
appropriate, safe, and legal use of information. |
What is cheating?
AIHS
defines cheating as using someone else’s words, work,
test answers, or ideas and claiming them as your own. |
What is plagiarism?
Merriam-Webster’s
Collegiate Dictionary defines plagiarism as “the
act of stealing and passing off the ideas or words
of another as one’s own . . . without crediting
the source.” |
What is cheating or plagiarizing and how can I avoid it?
| Examples of Cheating |
Examples of Plagiarism |
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| Copying homework and submitting it as your
own work. |
Not properly citing the words, pictures, music, video,
or other forms of communication in your research projects. |
| Looking at another’s test or sharing what is on a
test with other students either verbally or electronically. |
Copying and pasting from an online source and submitting
it as your own work. |
| Letting your project partner do all the work and just putting
your name on the final project. |
Paraphrasing source material without proper citations. |
| Sharing/accessing network files without the owner’s
knowledge and using them for class assignments. |
Hiring someone to write a paper, buying a paper, or downloading
a paper from an online source. |
| Turning in someone’s old project as your
own. |
Making up sources or listing sources you did not consult. |
How to Avoid Cheating/Plagiarizing |
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| Organize your
time and work so you don’t panic in a time crunch that
keeps you from making your work your own. |
Rework information into your own words and
include personal observations. Remember to cite the
original source of information. |
| Keep good records and notes as you compile
your research. This will prevent backtracking and wasting
time. |
Using another’s work is permissible
and often essential in research. Proper attribution
and citations keep this from being plagiarism. |
ALWAYS include a bibliography,
a list of sources when you use the works or ideas of others.
For help with your citations, ask your teacher or the library
media specialist. If you can’t cite it, don’t
use it. |
Remember that using another’s words,
pictures, music, video, web sites may require permission
as well as citation.
This involves copyright. For
help with this, ask your library media specialist. |
Choosing When to Give Credit – from Purdue University
-- “Since
teachers and administrators may not distinguish between deliberate
and accidental plagiarism, the heart of avoiding plagiarism is
to make sure you give credit where it is due. This may be credit
for something somebody said, wrote, emailed, drew, or implied.” When
in doubt, give credit to your source! Click Here on How to Avoid
Plagiarism
| Need to Document |
No Need to Document |
- When you are using or referring to somebody else’s
words or ideas from a magazine, book, newspaper, song,
TV program, movie, Web page, computer program, letter,
advertisement, or any other medium
- When you use information gained through interviewing
another person
- When you copy the exact words or a "unique
phrase" from somewhere
- When you reprint any diagrams, illustrations, charts,
and pictures
- When you use ideas that others have given you
in conversations or over e-mail
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- When you are writing your own experiences, your own observations,
your own insights, your own thoughts, your own conclusions
about a subject
- When you are using "common
knowledge" — folklore, common
sense observations, shared information within your
field of study or cultural group
- When you are compiling generally accepted facts
- When you
are writing up your own experimental results
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Academic Integrity Procedure:Teachers at AIHS will
discuss the Academic Integrity Policy and consequences/penalties
of cheating or plagiarism. This
discussion will include the academic and ethical reasons
for giving proper attribution to the work of others as well
as respect for the intellectual property of others.
Consequences/Penalties for Cheating:
| Violation |
Procedure |
Penalty |
Examples |
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| 1st Offense |
The teacher notes the cheating, discusses it with the student,
and contacts the parent. |
- “ 0 ” credit for assignment, quiz, or test.
- Alternative assessment with reduced grade at teacher’s
discretion.
- Document offense on Student Behavior Referral.
- Contact
parent.
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- Copying or intending to copy another’s homework,
quiz or test answers, or assignment.
- Using books or electronic
resources in direct violation of teacher’s directions.
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| 2nd Offense |
The teacher notes the cheating, discusses it with the student,
notifies the Department Chair and his/her administrator. Administrator
contacts the parent and arranges a conference. |
- “0” credit for assignment, quiz, or test.
- Document offense on Student Behavior Referral.
- Administrator contacts parent.
- Conference of involved
parties.
|
- Collaborating with others on an assignment in direct
violation of teacher’s directive.
- Sharing/accessing
network files without the owner’s knowledge.
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| Subsequent Offenses |
The teacher contacts the administrator. |
- Administrative discretion
.
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Consequences/Penalties for Plagiarism:
| Violation |
Procedure |
Penalty |
Examples |
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| 1st Offense |
The teacher notes the plagiarism, discusses
it with the student, and contacts the parent. |
- “ 0 ” credit for assignment.
- Alternative assessment with reduced grade at teacher’s
discretion.
- Document offense on Student Behavior Referral.
- Contact
parent.
|
- Copying material from a source and not properly citing
or failing to use quotation marks.
- Paraphrasing the source
without proper citation.
|
| 2nd Offense |
The teacher notes the plagiarism, discusses
it with the student, notifies the Department Chair and his/her
administrator. Administrator contacts the parent and
arranges a conference. |
- “0” credit for assignment, quiz, or test.
- Document offense on Student Behavior Referral.
- Administrator contacts parent.
- Conference of involved
parties.
|
- Copying and pasting from an online source and submitting
work as your own without proper attribution.
- Hiring someone
to write a paper, buying a paper, or downloading a paper
from an online source.
|
| Subsequent Offenses |
The teacher contacts the administrator. |
- Administrative discretion
.
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Glossary of Terms: from Newton North High School
Library, Newton, MA.
| Plagiarism |
Passing off someone else’s work as if
it were your own. |
| Attribution |
Giving the source of your information; giving credit. |
| Paraphrase |
A restatement of a passage giving the meaning in another
way. |
| Citation |
A note identifying the source of a quotation, idea, opinion,
fact. |
| Bibliography |
A document at the end of a paper/project that lists all
of the sources that were consulted. Also referred
to as “Works Cited.” |
| Intellectual Property |
A person’s original ideas of work or creation usually
protected by copyright law. |
| Common Knowledge |
Ordinary information that most people know or that is not
disputed, such as: President Kennedy was assassinated
in 1963. |
Works Cited
“Avoiding Plagiarism.” Online Writing Lab. 2004. Purdue
University. 13 June 2005.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_plagiar.html.
Johnson, Doug. Learning Right from Wrong in the Digital Age:
An Ethics Guide for
Parents, Teachers, Librarians, and Others Who Care about Computer-Using
Young
People. Worthington, OH: Linworth Publishing, 2003.
Lathrop, Ann and Kathleen Foss. Student Cheating
and Plagiarism in the Internet Era: A
Wake-Up Call. Englewood, CO: Libraries
Unlimited, 2000.
Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. Springfield, MA:
Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2004.
“Plagiarism Policy.” 2005. Newton
North High School Library. 7 June 2005.
< http://www.nnhs.net/library/show.php?page=plagiarism_policy.htm>.
Valenza, Joyce. “Anti-Plagiarism Campaign: The
Struggle for Academic Integrity.”
Connected Newsletter, Dec 2003/Jan 2004: 4-7.
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