Code of Student Conduct
academic integrity
VI. Academic Integrity
A. Definitions:
1. Academic integrity governs the way
in which a student writes, performs research, and fulfills the
responsibilities of learning
in a positive and constructive manner
at Bethlehem Central. It is founded on the principles of respect for
knowledge, truth,
scholarship and acting with honesty.
These principles and values are the foundation of learning. The purpose
of this section of
the Code of Conduct is to outline the
school district’s expectations regarding academic integrity.
2. Academic dishonesty includes but
is not limited to: cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, and facilitating
dishonesty. Appropriate
sanctions may be imposed on any
student who has committed an act of academic dishonesty.
a. Academic
dishonesty is the attempt to secure unfair advantage for oneself or
another in any academic exercise.
b. The
following is an extensive, though not exhaustive, list of actions that
are considered to be academically dishonest.
3. Cheating is the use or attempted
use of deception, fraud and/or misrepresentation of one’s academic work.
This includes,
but is not limited to:
a. copying
answers from another student
b. using
books, notes, conversations with others,
c.
calculators, cell phones and other electronic devices or any other type
of external assistance during an examination or
other
academic exercise without the permission of the instructor
d.
collaborating with others on homework, lab reports, computer programs,
or other academic assignments without the
permission of
the instructor
e. obtaining
the answers to or a copy of an examination prior to its administration
4. Fabrication is the falsification
or invention of any information or citation in any academic exercise.
This includes includes,
but is not limited to:
a. using
"invented" information in any laboratory experiment or other academic
exercise of research without permission of
the teacher;
b. altering
and resubmitting returned academic work without permission of the
teacher;
c.
misrepresenting the actual source from which information is cited (such
as citing a quote from a book review as though it
came from the
original work);
5. Plagiarism is the representation
of the words or ideas of another as one's own work in any academic
exercise. This includes,
but is not limited to:
a. failing to
properly identify direct quotations by quotation marks or appropriate
indentation and formal citation;
b. failing to
acknowledge and properly cite paraphrasing or summarizing material from
another source;
c. failing to
acknowledge and properly cite information obtained from the Internet or
other electronic media as well as
other
sources;
d. submitting
term papers written by another, including those obtained from commercial
term paper companies or the
internet;
6. Facilitating dishonesty is
knowingly helping or attempting to help another commit any act of
academic dishonesty. This
includes, but is not limited to:
a.
substituting for another person in an examination
b. allowing
another to copy one's work in an examination or other academic exercise
7. Other prohibited actions:
a. submitting
all or substantial portions of the same work to fulfill the requirements
for more than one course without the
prior
permission of the instructor(s),
b.
self-plagiarism, forging or otherwise altering grades, transcripts,
course withdrawal forms, or other academic document
c. illegally
accessing a computer drive, network folder, etc.
d. stealing
or destroying the academic work of another, such as a computer disk,
external storage drive, term paper, or
notebook.
B. Consequences and Sanction for Violations of Academic
Integrity
1. A student implicated in any of the
above will be given a grade of zero on the assignment. A school
administrator will notify
parents, and the student will be
placed on formal academic probation for the remainder of his/her school
career. A second
incident of cheating will result in a
note being placed in the student's academic file.
2. If teachers or staff members
observe any form of cheating for any reason during a quiz, test or exam,
they will immediately
pick up the test. No student may
leave the examination room prior to the stated exam release time.
Violation of these or any
other testing procedures or rules
announced by the proctor at the start of the examination will result in
a grade of zero on
the exam. Appeals must be made
through the school principal.