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The principle of academic honesty is quite simple: all work submitted for assessment must be the candidate's own work. Advice, discussion and supervision are allowed, but responsibility for the words produced must be the candidate's own.

An authentic piece of work is one that is based on the candidate’s individual and original ideas with the ideas and work of others fully acknowledged. Therefore, all assignments, written or oral, completed by a candidate for assessment must wholly and authentically use that candidate’s own language and expression.Our school's Academic Honesty Policy is

based on the IBO’s “Academic Honesty Guide” published in 2007 and was last revised in June 2017. All members of the school community may obtain a copy of this document from the Diploma Programme coordinator or download it from the school’s IB website. In the following, a general summary is provided, which specifies the conduct expected from students in the IB Diploma Programme at Goetheschule Essen

Where sources are used or referred to, whether in the form of direct quotation or paraphrase, such sources must be fully and appropriately acknowledged.

• Direct QuotationsWhen using the words of another person it must become habitual practice for a candidate to use quotation marks, indentation or some other accepted means of indicating that the wording is not their own.

Sources of data, computer programs, photographs, diagrams, illustrations, maps and so on must also be acknowledged.

• ParaphraseParaphrasing is the rendition of another person’s words presented in a new style and integrated grammatically into the writing. If done correctly, paraphrasing is a legitimate way to use a source. However, because paraphrasing uses the ideas of another person, it is still necessary to acknowledge the source. Candidates are not allowed to simply copy a passage, substitute a few words with their own and then regard this as their own authentic work.

• Abuse of Electronic MediaWith the recent growth of the Internet and corresponding increase in its use, the abuse of electronic media is now prevalent within the academic community. Candidates must therefore record the addresses of all websites from which they obtain information during their 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. This includes the copying of maps, photographs, illustrations, data, graphs and so on. For example, to cut and paste a graph from a website without acknowledging its source constitutes plagiarism. CD-ROMs, DVDs, e-mails and any other electronic media must be treated in the same way as the Internet, books and journals.

Authenticy

Citations

Academic Honesty in the

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Exam ConductMalpractice

Malpractice includes

• Plagiarism ( = the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate’s own).

• Collusion ( = supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another).

• Duplication ( = the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or diploma requirements)

• Any Other Behaviour that Gains an Unfair Advantage for a Candidate or that Affects the Results of Another Candidate ( = such as taking unauthorized material into an examination room, misconduct during an examination, falsifying a CAS record).

Example:If a candidate submits the same or a very similar piece of work for the in-depth study in both the historical investigation and the extended essay, this will be viewed as malpractice.

During written examinations candidates are not allowed to

• take unauthorized material into an examination room (for example, an electronic device other than a permitted calculator, own rough paper, notes, a mobile phone) regardless of whether this material is used or potentially contains information pertinent to the examination.

• disrupt the examination or distract another candidate.

• copy the work of another candidate.

• fabricate data for an assignment.

• take exam material out of the exam room.

• disclose or discuss the content of an examination paper with a person outside the immediate school community within 24 hours of the end of the examination.

During each examination session the IBO takes a random sample of candidates’ work and submits it to a web-based plagiarism prevention system. The school is also going to check all written assignments with the help of a plagiarism software.

Final Decisions

The IBO final award committee is responsible for decisions regarding academic infringement or malpractice.

If this committee decides that an academic infringement has been established, no marks 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.

If the final award committee decides that a case of malpractice has been established, no grade will be awarded in the subject concerned. No diploma will be awarded to the candidate, but a certificate will be awarded for other subjects in which no malpractice has occurred.

An IB diploma, or a certificate, may be withdrawn at any time if malpractice is subsequently established.

For further information please refer to Diploma Programme, Academic Honesty. International Baccalaureate Organisation. Cardiff: Peterson House, 2007

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Academic Honesty

Basic Information forStudents, Parents and Teachers

Academic Honesty is taken seriously at Goetheschule Essen. The following measures are to ensure that all students in the IB Diploma Programme develop an awareness of academic integrity in and outside the classroom.

1. Academic Honesty Tutorial

After the start of the programme all IB Diploma students participate in an Academic Honesty Tutorial. They receive a copy of the school's Academic Honesty Policy and discuss its implications in detail. The Coordinator informs students that the school uses a plagiarism software to check all written IB assignments. After the Academic Honesty Tutorial students sign a declaration to confirm that they have been warned against plagiarism and intend to abide by the school's IB calendar deadlines.

2. Formatting and Citations Tutorial

Students review the basic formatting and citation rules they learned in middle school. They are introduced to The Chicago Manual Style and learn how to use www.bibme.org as a free bibliography generator.

3. Academic Writing Tutorial

Students review basic essay writing skills. The following websites are recommended for use in the IB Diploma Programme:

Research

http://www.uni-due.de/ub http://www.stadtbibliothek-essen.de/ http://www.questia.com/ - for online research

Citation

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/http://citationmachine.net/index2.php http://www.bibme.org/ http://www.plagiarismchecker.com

4. Exam Preparation Session

During the IB Exam Prep Session the following material by the IBO is made available to students. Parents may download it from the school’s IB website.

Academic honesty in the Diploma Programme

Are you completing your IB assignments honestly?

Conduct of the examinations: items not permitted

Conduct of the examinations—notice to candidates