Academic Honesty
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Academic honesty and personal integrity are fundamental components of a student’s education and character development. Kirkwood High School expects that students will not cheat, lie, plagiarize, or commit other acts of academic dishonesty. Grades should reflect the student’s own work in the fairest possible way. The academically honest student produces work representative of his/her own efforts and abilities. Academic dishonesty, cheating, or plagiarism involves an attempt by the student to show possession of a level of k knowledge or skill which he or she does not possess.
DEFINITIONS OF ACADEMIC DISHONESTY:
Cheating
Students who cheat deprive themselves of the opportunity to learn – especially how to think. Knowing how to think critically in each subject area prepares students for post-secondary education as well as any profession they pursue. The following offenses, including but not limited to those below, are considered examples of cheating:
•Copying another student’s work or assignment (including homework) to submit as one’s own.
•Allowing another student to copy your assignment (including homework) to submit a one’s own.
•Using/providing notes, documents, answers, aids such as a graphic calculator, computer file or other storage devices (i.e. cell phones, ipods, etc.), or helping another student on any assessment (i.e. test, quiz, exam, etc.) or assignment unless permitted by the teacher.
•Stealing, borrowing or removing an exam from the classroom, or taking it from a teacher without explicit permission.
•Tampering with teacher materials and/or student records.
•Copying, photocopying or having someone other than the student prepare the student’s homework, paper, project, computer program, or take-home test for which credit is given.
•Copying materials, including computer software, in violation of the copyright law.
Plagiarizing
Plagiarism is any use of another individual’s ideas, words, or work without giving him/her appropriate credit. Plagiarism includes, but is not limited to the following misuse of published material or material acquired from internet sources, and/or the work of another student:
•Paraphrasing or copying any source without giving proper credit to the author.
•Not using denotation when citing sources.
•Turning in any assignment which is not based on one’s own research and writing.
Consequences for Academic Dishonesty
1st Offense: Loss of credit on assignment/test and notification of parents by teacher.
2nd Offense: Loss of credit on assignment, notification of parents by teacher, and referral to the grade level administrator, possible ISS
Subsequent Offenses: Loss of credit on assignment, parent conference, possible ISS or OSS, depending on the circumstance of each incident.
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