Academic Honesty

Academic Honesty: A set of values and skills that promote the learner profile trait principled, as well as integrity in teaching, learning and assessment.

Accomplice to Cheating: Someone who helps another in their choice to cheat in an assessment situation.

Authentic Authorship: A scholar’s piece of work based on his/her individual and original ideas along with any ideas and work of others that are fully acknowledged.

Cheating: Behavior that results from a scholar making a deliberate choice to gain an unfair advantage in an assessment situation.

Citation and Formatting: OHMS will use the MLA citation format in all MYP classes.

Collaboration: Cooperative work with other learners on academic tasks where students are assigned individual responsibilities.

Duplication: Turning in the same work for different subject areas by the same student.

Malpractice: Any act of academic dishonesty including plagiarism, cheating, and accomplice to cheating.

Paraphrasing: Using different words to restate another person’s ideas.

Plagiarism: Using words, ideas, or products that belong to another person or source, without giving credit to the source from which it was taken.