GWHS & IB Academic Honesty Policy
"Learners strive to be principled: They act with integrity and honesty, with a strong sense of fairness, justice and respect for the dignity of the individual, groups and communities. They take responsibility for their own actions and the consequences that accompany them."
Plagiarism and cheating have no place in the academic arena, and they are in violation of the Greeley-Evans District 6 Code of Conduct. The following process will be followed for such actions:
Student(s) who are found guilty of plagiarism or cheating will earn no credit for the assignment, project, or test. The student(s) who contributed to the offense (i.e. shared information or answers) will also earn no credit, whether or not the student(s) benefited personally from the information. Parents or guardians will be notified, and if the student is in AVID or IB, both the AVID/IB Director and the appropriate counselor(s) will be informed if applicable. A record of the incident will be included in the GWHS student disciplinary file. Two incidents of plagiarism or cheating may result in being dropped from the AVID or IB Program. Incidents are cumulative from grades 9 –12.
·A student may appeal to remain in the AVID/IB Program by following an appeal process to an ad hoc committee of three IB teachers or the AVID Site Team. The appeal must be in writing and the student must be present for the appeal to be considered. The committee, IB Director and counselor(s) will make the final decision regarding the student’s continuation in the IB Program or other programs.
As per IB General Regulations, IB Diploma Program (DP) students found guilty of plagiarism/cheating on IB DP Internal or External Assessments and/or their Extended Essay, and/or of falsifying any CAS information are not eligible to earn an IB Diploma.
We believe that academic honesty is fundamental to accurately communicating and facilitating a student’s acquisition of knowledge, understanding of concepts, and mastery of skills to the students themselves, parents, and teachers of our school community. In education, we are continually studying the ideas of others. It is important, in our speaking and writing, that we acknowledge these ideas and give credit where it is due. Plagiarism is using other people’s words or ideas without clearly stating the source of that information. Plagiarism and cheating are serious offenses and will be treated accordingly. The following are examples of plagiarism and cheating:
- Copying someone else’s assignment or allowing someone else to copy your assignment. This includes sharing and/or collaborating on work online or through social media and then passing off this work as your own.
- Substituting synonyms for someone else’s word choice or restating someone else’s ideas in your own words without citing the source and providing documentation in the form of a bibliography/works cited.
- Handing in another individual’s work as your own.
- Dividing questions on an assignment so that students answer only a portion of the assignment and then use each other’s answers to complete the assignment. Although group work and cooperative learning are often encouraged, individual assignments must remain the work of the individual student. Always ask your teacher if an assignment may be completed with others and turned in as such. Do not assume it is allowed.
- Copying sentences, phrases, paragraphs, or pages from books, web sites or other sources, including artificial intelligence (AI), without citing the source and providing documentation in the form of a bibliography/works cited. This includes paraphrasing.
- Using plots, characters, theories, opinions, concepts, designs, and ideas from other sources (people, books, films, music recordings, television, websites or any other media) and presenting them as your own work.
- Copying answers from a classmate’s quiz or test paper, using a cheat sheet, or sharing answers before, during, or after a testing situation.
- Falsifying data, conclusions, and answers and presenting them as fact.