Academic dishonesty is evidenced by cheating or plagiarism or and involves any attempt by a student to show possession of knowledge and skills he/she does not possess or share information with others that allows another student to cheat or plagiarize. For purposes of this policy, the following definitions are in effect:
Cheating is:
- Using dishonest, deceptive, or fraudulent means to obtain or attempt to obtain credit for academic work.
- Using notes, aids (electronic or otherwise), or the help of another student on tests in ways other than those expressly permitted by the teacher.
- Looking at another student's tests or answers or talking to another student during a test or quiz.
- Copying or allowing another student to copy a quiz, test, or individual assignment.
- Tampering with an instructor's record of student grades/scores.
Plagiarism is:
- Taking the specific substance of another person's work and creating or offering it as one's own work without giving credit to that source.
- Not using quotation marks, indentation, and/or footnotes to denote material that has been directly quoted from another source.
- Paraphrasing an author without giving credit.
Fabrication is:
- The intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or projects or other products with the intent to deceive.
- Citation of information not taken from the source indicated or listing sources not directly used in the academic exercise.
- Submitting an assignment that uses falsified, invented, or fictitious data or a deliberate concealment or distortion of the true nature of data or evidence.
- Submitting as one's own any assignment prepared totally or in part by another person, entity, or artificial intelligence (AI).
- Taking a test for someone else or permitting someone to take a test for you.
ConsequencesAlthough individual violations of academic honesty are significant, it is the intent of consequences that the student should learn from his/her mistakes and not exhibit such behavior in the future. A second offense, whether it occurs in the same class as the first offense or in another class or school during the same or subsequent trimester or year, will result in consequences outlined as Further Offense provisions.
First OffenseThe consequences for a student's first-time involvement in an act of academic dishonesty may include, but not be limited to, any or all of the following:
- The student will receive a 0 (failing grade) on the quiz, test, or individual assignment.
- Teacher will contact the student's parents and write a referral.
- A record of the student's act of academic dishonesty will be recorded in the student's cumulative file.
Further OffensesThe consequences for a student's second (or subsequent) time of involvement in an act of academic dishonesty may include, but is not limited to, the following at the discretion of the principal:
- The student will receive a 0 (failing grade) on the quiz, test or individual assignment.
- The student will receive discipline from administration.
- The teacher will contact the student's parent(s)/guardians(s).
- A record of the student's act of academic dishonesty will be recorded in the student's cumulative file.
Other consequences as appropriate.
