K-5 Elementary Academic Dishonesty
General Information
What is Academic Dishonesty?
Academic Dishonesty includes 2 main categories: cheating and plagiarism. Your teachers frequently run your work through an originality program to ensure that your work is your own.
Academic Dishonesty includes 2 main categories: cheating and plagiarism. Your teachers frequently run your work through an originality program to ensure that your work is your own.
Cheating:
--Parents helping you on a quiz and/or test or reviewing your quiz/test before you submit to check your work. --Using notes or study guides on your quizzes and tests without approval from your teacher. --Using your textbook/etexts on quizzes and tests unless specifically indicated that it is an ‘open book’ test. --Using the internet to find the answer to a question. We consistently monitor Yahoo answers, Jiskha homework help, Brainly, etc. --Giving other students answers to coursework, whether by webmail, email, by posting answers to websites, etc. |
Plagiarism:
--Word-for-word plagiarism—copying exactly from someone else’s text --Section-by-section plagiarism—lifting phrases from someone else’s text and replacing with some of your own words and/or rearranging the ideas. --Paraphrasing—using someone else’s ideas as if they were one’s own thoughts; borrowing facts, statistics and other illustrative material (unless the information is common knowledge) |
Honor Code Violation
21_-22_honor_code_violations_student_policy.pdf |