What is the IB Code of Academic Honesty? What does IBO consider to be academic malpractice?
Each Diploma and Certificate candidate is asked to read and sign an Honor Code statement as part of their participation in the IB program. By reading and signing it, the student pledges a commitment to academic honesty and to avoid academic malpractice. The IBO identifies four major areas of possible malpractice: • Plagiarism (“the representation of the ideas of work of another person as the candidate’s own”); • Collusion (“supporting malpractice by another candidate”); • Duplication of work (“the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and / or diploma requirements”); • “Any other behavior that gains an unfair advantage for a candidate or affects the results of another candidate” (examples include exam misconduct of any kind, or using false information in records for one’s CAS file). The IBO places great emphasis upon proper citation of sources in extended essays and internal assessment papers or projects. One misconception they seek to correct in their recen
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