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Understanding Academic Integrity in IB

Academic integrity is the commitment to act responsibly and ethically in scholarly work, grounded in values such as honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. It emphasizes the importance of understanding school policies, reporting misconduct, completing assignments honestly, and giving credit to sources. Students are encouraged to be accountable for their actions and use the internet responsibly while avoiding any form of academic misconduct that could provide unfair advantages.

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Understanding Academic Integrity in IB

Academic integrity is the commitment to act responsibly and ethically in scholarly work, grounded in values such as honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. It emphasizes the importance of understanding school policies, reporting misconduct, completing assignments honestly, and giving credit to sources. Students are encouraged to be accountable for their actions and use the internet responsibly while avoiding any form of academic misconduct that could provide unfair advantages.

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Academic

Integrity
Yeomans, M.M. 2025
What is Academic
Integrity?
• It is a choice to act in a responsible way whereby
others can trust us as individuals.
• It is the foundation for ethical decision-making and
behaviour in the production of legitimate,
authentic and honest scholarly work.
What is the IB?
Academic integrity in the PYP
The principle of academic integrity is based on five key values:

Honesty
Trust
Fairness
Respect
Responsibility
Showing Academic Integrity

1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Have a full Respond to Complete all Give credit to Abstain from Abstain from Recognize to
understanding acts of assignments, used sources in receiving non- giving undue be accountable
of our school’s academic tasks, all work permitted assistance to for actions and
policies misconduct and examinations, submitted to assistance in peers in the behaviours
report them to and quizzes in the IB for the completion completion of online, and
their teachers an honest assessment in or editing of their work show a
and/or manner and to written and oral work, such as responsible use
programme the best of your materials from friends, of the internet
coordinators abilities and/or artistic relatives, other and social
products students, media platforms
private tutors,
essay writing or
copy-editing
services, pre-
written essay
banks, or file
sharing
websites
1. Have a full understanding of our
school’s policies
2. Respond to acts of academic misconduct
and report them to their teachers and/or
programme coordinators
3. Complete all
assignments, tasks,
examinations, and
quizzes in an honest
manner and to the
best of your abilities
4. Give credit to used sources in all
work submitted to the IB for
assessment in written and oral
materials and/or artistic products
5. Abstain from receiving non-
permitted assistance in the
completion or editing of work,
such as from friends,
relatives, other students,
private tutors, essay writing
or copy-editing services, pre-
written essay banks, or file
sharing websites
6. Abstain from giving
undue assistance to
peers in the
completion of their
work
7. Recognize to be
accountable for actions
and behaviours online,
and show a responsible
use of the internet and
social media platforms
Student Academic Misconduct
• Deliberate or
inadvertent behaviour
that has the potential to result in the
student, or anyone else, gaining an
unfair advantage in one or
more components of assessment.
Let’s
check how
much we
learned!
Example

I copied
my
friends
answers
Example

I did my
own
project
Example

I used Google
and said
where I found
the
information
Example

I helped a
friend by
giving them
all the
answers
Example

I told my
teacher I
didn't
understand
Example

I asked my
friend to
write my
paragraph
for me
Example

I used a book and


told my teacher
where the idea
came from
Example

I looked at
someone
else's paper
during a
quiz
Example

I worked
hard and
finished my
project on
time
Example

I sent
answers to a
friend during
an online
test
Example

I did all the


work for my
group
because the
others didn’t
do anything
What is
Academic Being honest
Doing your
in your
Integrity? schoolwork
own work

It's about
Giving credit
being fair and
when you
responsible
use someone
in your
else's ideas.
learning.
References

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