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Academic Honesty in the Diploma Programme.Student guide.ContentsAcademic Honesty.What is an authentic piece of work?Types of Academic Misconduct.Referencing.The difference between collaboration and collusion.5a) Group 4: The Sciences.5b) Mathematics.The Internet.The Arts.Duplication and the Extended Essay.Using sources from different languages.Malpractice in written examinations.Academic Infringement.Penalties for Academic Misconduct.BibliographyAcademic Honesty.Academic honesty is a set of values and skills that promote personal integrity and good practice in teaching, learning and assessment. What is an authentic piece of work?An authentic piece of work is one that is based on your individual and original ideas with the ideas and work of others fully acknowledged. Therefore, all assignments for assessment, regardless of their format, must wholly and authentically use your own language, expression and ideas.Where the ideas or work of another person are represented within your work, whether in the form of direct quotation or paraphrase, the source(s) of those ideas or the work must be fully and appropriately acknowledged. This requirement includes a your responses to examination papers. All quotations in your examination script must be properly acknowledged.3. Types of academic misconduct.Misconduct is behaviour that results in, or may result in you or any other candidate gaining an unfair advantage in one or more assessment component. Misconduct includes:Plagiarism: The representation of the ideas or work of another person as your own.Collusion: Supporting malpractice by another candidate, for example, allowing your work to be copied or submitted for assessment by someone else.Duplication of work: The presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements. For example, using your history investigation as your Extended Essay.Any other behaviour that gains an unfair advantage for you or that affects the results of another candidate. For example:Fabricating data for an assignment.Taking unauthorized material into an examination room.Disrupting an examination by an act of misconduct, such as distracting another candidate or creating a disturbance.Exchanging, supporting, or attempting to support the passing on of information that is, or could be, related to the examination.Failing to comply with the instructions of the invigilator or other member of the school’s staff responsible for the conduct of the examination.Impersonating another candidate.Stealing examination papers.Disclosing or discussing the content of an examination paper with a person outside the immediate school community within 24 hours after the examination.4. ReferencingYou will submit work for assessment in a variety of media that may include audio-visual material, text, graphs, images and/or data published in print or electronic sources. If you use the work or ideas of another person you must acknowledge the source using a standard style of referencing in a consistent manner. If you fail to acknowledge a source, it will be investigated by the IB as a potential breach of IB regulations that may result in a penalty imposed by the final award committee.You can choose your own referencing style (We use MLA at Tamagawa). Whichever reference style you use, it is expected that the minimum information given includes: name of author, date of publication, title of source and page numbers as applicable.You are expected to give credit to all sources used including sources that have been paraphrased or summarized.When writing text you must clearly distinguish between your words and those of others by the use of quotation marks (or other method like indentation) followed by an appropriate in-text citation accompanied by an entry in the bibliography. The source of the quotation (or paraphrased text) must be clearly identified along with the quotation and not reside in the bibliography alone. 5. The difference between collaboration and collusion. Collaboration is: Working together on a common aim with shared information, which is an open and cooperative behaviour that does not result in “allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another”.For most assessment components you are expected to work independently. There are some internal assessments when collaboration with other candidates is permitted or even actively encouraged. The final work, however, must be produced independently, despite the fact that it may be based on the same or similar data as other candidates in the group. All work must be written in your own words and cannot therefore be the same as another candidate’s. If two or more candidates have exactly the same introduction to an assignment, the final award committee will interpret this as collusion (or plagiarism), and not collaboration.5a) Group 4: The sciences.In group 4 subjects no collaboration is allowed in assessment tasks except in the area of data collection. Although there are different requirements depending on the subject, you should work on your own when collecting data.When data collection is carried out in groups, the actual recording and processing of data must be undertaken independently if this criterion is to be assessed. This does not apply to the group 4 project, which by its very nature is a collaborative project and is assessed for personal skills only.5b) Mathematics. The work you submit must be entirely your own. When completing a piece of work outside the classroom, you must work independently. Group work is not appropriate for the mathematics HL or mathematics SL portfolio. For mathematical studies SL, group work must not be used for projects. Each project must be based on different data collected or measurements generated.6. The Internet.You must not believe that because the internet is in the public domain and largelyuncontrolled, information can be taken from websites without the need for acknowledgment. You must record the addresses of all websites from which you obtain informationduring your research, including the date when each website was accessed. The uniform (or universal) resource locator (URL) constitutes the website address for this purpose. Simply stating the search engine that was used to find the website is not acceptable. The requirement to cite the source of material includes the copying of maps, photographs, illustrations, data and graphs. For example, to cut and paste a graph from a website without acknowledging its source constitutes plagiarism. CDRoms, DVDs, email messages and any other electronic media must be treated in the same way as the internet, books and journals.Do not use websites and / or organisations that claim to offer "help" with IB assessment tasks. None of these are endorsed by the IB. Do not use websites on the internet that offer custom-made assignments, for free or for money. Even if websites are acting in good faith, they are offering a level of support and guidance that may not be allowed by the IB.Your teacher will tell you the level and kind of guidance allowed by the IB for each of your subjects.7. The Arts.The issue of plagiarism is not confined to subjects in groups 1 to 5 of the Diploma Programme. Copying works of art, whether music, film, dance, theatre arts or visual arts, without proper acknowledgment, may also be plagiarism. There is an expectation that you may be influenced by the work of other artists and writers, whose works may inspire your own creativity. Therefore there are circumstances that are well defined by your teacher where the creative use of the work or ideas of another person is acceptable, but the original source must always be acknowledged. You must understand that passing off the work of another person as your own is not acceptable. Forms of intellectual and creative expression (for example, works of literature, art or music) must be respected and are normally protected by law. 8. Duplication and the Extended Essay.The presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements is a duplication of work and therefore constitutes misconduct. For example, if you submit the same or a very similar piece of work for a history internal assessment and for an extended essay in history, this would be viewed as misconduct. However, it is perfectly acceptable for you to study one aspect of a topic for internal assessment and another aspect of the same topic for an extended essay.9. Using sources from different languages.Many of you are fluent in two or more languages and are therefore able to conduct your research in more than one language (such as Japanese), perhaps with the aid of the internet.You must be aware that translating someone else’s work into another language, then using the translated text your work without acknowledging is source is plagiarism. You must reference all sources used from different languages the same as you have to for English language ones.10. Malpractice in written examinations.The following list is examples of malpractice in examinations.Taking unauthorized material into an examination room (such as cell/mobile phone, written notes).Leaving and/or accessing unauthorized material in a bathroom/restroom that may be visited during an examination.Misconduct during an examination, including any attempt to disrupt the examination or distract another candidate.Exchanging information or in any way supporting the passing on of information to another Candidate about the content of an examination.Failing to comply with the instructions of the invigilator or other member of the school’s staff responsible for the conduct of the examination.Impersonating another candidate.Stealing examination papers.Using an unauthorized calculator during an examination, or using a calculator when one is not permitted for the examination paper.Disclosing or discussing the content of an examination paper with a person outside theimmediate school community within 24 hours after the examination.11. Academic Infringement.The IB recognizes that copying text, or other material, is not always a deliberate attempt by you to present the ideas or work of another person as their own. You must seek advice from your teacher if you are unsure how to acknowledge a source properly.If, for example, you copy one or two sentences from a book, journal or website without showing it as a quotation, but indicating its source in a footnote or the bibliography this will attract the penalty applied to an academic infringement (not misconduct) which means that you won’t get any marks for that component of work. If in doubt, ask your teacher.12. Penalities for Academic Misconduct.Penalties are imposed on a candidate found guilty of misconduct in order to:Ensure that the candidate does not gain an unfair advantageMaintain the integrity of the examination session by excluding those candidates who have abused the systemDeter other candidates from taking the same action.The following circumstances are those that most commonly give rise to an investigation.A coordinator informs the IB that he / she suspects that work submitted to the IB for assessment (or as part of a sample for the purpose of moderation) may not be the authentic work of the candidate.A coordinator informs the IB that malpractice may have taken place during an examination.An examiner suspects malpractice and provides evidence to justify his or her suspicion.An IB member of staff randomly checking assessment material identifies possible plagiarism using a web-based application.If the final award committee decides that a case of misconduct has been established:No grade will be awarded in the subject concerned. No diploma will be awarded to the candidate. A Diploma Programme course results will be awarded for other subjects where no malpractice has occurred.If the final award committee decides that an academic infringement (some attempt by the candidate to acknowledge the source) has been established:No mark will be awarded for the component or part(s) of the component. The candidate will still be eligible for a grade in the subject or diploma requirement concerned. 13. Bibliography1. Handbook of procedures for the Diploma Programme 20142. Diploma Programme Academic Honesty 2009 ................
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