ENCOURAGING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
ISNS values honesty and academic integrity. We encourage and expect all students to conduct themselves in a responsible manner. Honesty and integrity are basic, desirable character traits as recognized in our Code of Conduct and the IB Learner Profile. ISNS believes that teaching students about academic and personal honesty is a fundamental part of a student’s education.
It is expected that students will demonstrate academic honesty at all times as outlined in school policy. Each student in the MYP and DP Programmes is asked to sign in acknowledgement of this policy as they enter grade six or upon enrollment in the school.
LINK TO ACADEMIC INTEGRITY POLICY
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Policy
In addition to policies and procedures implemented by ISNS, there are serious consequences imposed by the International Baccalaureate Organization for academic misconduct. Students found to have submitted plagiarized or dishonestly produced academic work assessed by the IBO will fail to receive a grade in the subject concerned, and will fail to receive an IB diploma as a result. IBDP students will be expected to formally acknowledge the IB Academic Integrity Policy.
Teachers are responsible for:
- Having a complete understanding of the ISNS Academic Integrity policy, the AI Policy, Acceptable Use police and the IB0’s policies and introducing these policies to students in the first term of each academic year clearly informing them about how academic misconduct will be investigated and how subsequent actions will be taken.
- Being proactive in preventing misconduct by modeling effective citations and referencing and providing examples of academic misconduct in their respective disciplines.
- Planning a manageable workload so students can allocate time effectively to produce work according to IB’s expectations.
- Giving feedback and ensuring students are not provided with excessive templating or multiple rounds of editing would be contrary to instructions described in the relevant subject guides.
- Ensuring that all student work is appropriately labelled and saved to avoid any error when submitting assessment to the IBO
- Developing a plan to cross-reference work across multiple groups of students when preparing to submit final pieces of work for assessment to prevent collusion.
- Carrying out the appropriate disciplinary procedures if any violation of the Academic Integrity Policy occurs, tracking incidents of academic misconduct using ManageBac behaviour notes and reporting any incident of academic misconduct and subsequent sanctions to parents.
- Inform MS and HS students about the use of turnitin.com.
- Providing guided instruction for the acceptable use of AI in tasks and assessment per the AI Policy
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