Further Guidance on Academic Misconduct Terms

Academic Misconduct is behaviors whether deliberately or inadvertent which result in or may result in the student or any other student gaining an unfair advantage or creating an unfair disadvantage in one or more assessment component. (International Baccalaureate Organization®, YouTube, 2013)

Cheating is considered to be anything that gives one student an unfair advantage over another.  This includes sharing written, electronic, photographs of assignments or tests and distributing information for the purpose of one student gaining an unfair advantage over another one.  Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Collaboration of answer sharing without permission from the instructor
• Copying and submitting the work of another
• Allowing another student to copy one’s work
• Falsifying service hours 

Plagiarism is defined as the intentional or unwitting representation of the ideas, words or work of another person without proper, clear and explicit acknowledgement:

• Copying word for word
• Rewording or rewriting text and information
• Borrowing ideas or thoughts without proper citation
• Paraphrasing with minimal word change     

Collusion is defined as supporting academic misconduct by another student.   Example include, but are not limited to:

• Allowing one’s work to be copied
• Allowing the work of another student to be copied
• Failure to place one’s work where it is not available to others
• Failure to bring academic misconduct to the attention of a guide/faculty member or administraton 

Paraphrasing is defined as using an author’s ideas by rewording or rearranging the author’s original words. Paraphrased materials still require the student to acknowledge the source.

Duplication is defined as the presentation of the same work for different assessment components.