CMHS Academic Honesty Policy
Believing that students must work to their full potential and that excellence must be encouraged, The Caddo Magnet High faculty and staff promote honesty and integrity in schoolwork.
Academic dishonesty is defined in the 1990-1991 LSU-S Student Handbook as:
1. Copying from another student’s test paper or computer file
2. Using materials during a test not authorized by the person giving or receiving information without authority
3. Stealing, buying, or otherwise obtaining all or part of a test
4. Selling or giving all or part of a test
5. Bribing any other person to obtain a test or information about a test
6. Substituting for another student or permitting any other person to substitute for oneself to take a test
7. Submitting as your own, in fulfillment of academic requirements, any theme, report, term paper, essay, computer program, other written work, painting, drawing, sculpture, or other art work.
8. Houghton Mifflin’s The Pocket Writer elaborates on the definition: When you use source material in your research paper, you must be sure that your reader knows which words and ideas are yours and which are someone else’s. Plagiarism is using another writer’s words or ideas without acknowledgment. Plagiarism is stealing, and people who plagiarize the words of others have no defense in a court of law. How much of another writer’s work can you borrow without acknowledgement? None. Using one clause from another writers work is plagiarism. Rearranging the clauses of another writer’s sentences is still plagiarism. Substituting a few words of your own in another writer’s sentence is still plagiarism.
9. Any other attempts to misrepresent information.
The following procedure will be implemented to address any actions defined as academic dishonesty.
The teacher observing or becoming aware of an apparent violation of the honesty policy shall document this in writing on a referral from to be sent to the assistant principal. Any evidence should be attached to this form. This teacher is to handle the grade, assignment, or test as he/she deems necessary and inform the student that a record of this violation will be sent to the office, The assistant principal feels that the situation calls for further attention the actions may include detention, restriction (exclusion from a particular activity for a specified period of time), disciplinary probation, or suspension. A record of this infraction will be kept in the assistant principal’s office. Violation of the honesty policy will keep a student from being admitted to National Honor Society at the next induction or will be grounds for dismissal.
Further Explanation:
1. Statement of Policy: In an academic institution, few offenses against the community are as serious as academic dishonesty. Such behavior is a direct attack upon the concept of learning and inquiry and casts doubts upon all measures of achievement.
2. Acts of Academic Dishonesty
· Cheating is an act of deception by which a student misrepresents that he/she has mastered information on an academic exercise that he/she has not mastered. For example, intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise is considered cheating, Collusion in any act of academic dishonesty will be treated as a commission of the act.
· Fabrication is the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research, or other findings with the intent to deceive.
· Plagiarism is the representation of someone else’s words, ideas, or data as one’s own work. When a student submits work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and specific references, and, if verbatim statements are included, through quotation marks as well. By placing his or her name on work submitted for credit, the student certifies the originality of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate acknowledgements.
(The above information is from page 4 of Beloit College’s Student Handbook and may be found at www.beloit.edu)
1. Copying from another student’s test paper or computer file
2. Using materials during a test not authorized by the person giving or receiving information without authority
3. Stealing, buying, or otherwise obtaining all or part of a test
4. Selling or giving all or part of a test
5. Bribing any other person to obtain a test or information about a test
6. Substituting for another student or permitting any other person to substitute for oneself to take a test
7. Submitting as your own, in fulfillment of academic requirements, any theme, report, term paper, essay, computer program, other written work, painting, drawing, sculpture, or other art work.
8. Houghton Mifflin’s The Pocket Writer elaborates on the definition: When you use source material in your research paper, you must be sure that your reader knows which words and ideas are yours and which are someone else’s. Plagiarism is using another writer’s words or ideas without acknowledgment. Plagiarism is stealing, and people who plagiarize the words of others have no defense in a court of law. How much of another writer’s work can you borrow without acknowledgement? None. Using one clause from another writers work is plagiarism. Rearranging the clauses of another writer’s sentences is still plagiarism. Substituting a few words of your own in another writer’s sentence is still plagiarism.
9. Any other attempts to misrepresent information.
The following procedure will be implemented to address any actions defined as academic dishonesty.
The teacher observing or becoming aware of an apparent violation of the honesty policy shall document this in writing on a referral from to be sent to the assistant principal. Any evidence should be attached to this form. This teacher is to handle the grade, assignment, or test as he/she deems necessary and inform the student that a record of this violation will be sent to the office, The assistant principal feels that the situation calls for further attention the actions may include detention, restriction (exclusion from a particular activity for a specified period of time), disciplinary probation, or suspension. A record of this infraction will be kept in the assistant principal’s office. Violation of the honesty policy will keep a student from being admitted to National Honor Society at the next induction or will be grounds for dismissal.
Further Explanation:
1. Statement of Policy: In an academic institution, few offenses against the community are as serious as academic dishonesty. Such behavior is a direct attack upon the concept of learning and inquiry and casts doubts upon all measures of achievement.
2. Acts of Academic Dishonesty
· Cheating is an act of deception by which a student misrepresents that he/she has mastered information on an academic exercise that he/she has not mastered. For example, intentionally using or attempting to use unauthorized materials, information or study aids in any academic exercise is considered cheating, Collusion in any act of academic dishonesty will be treated as a commission of the act.
· Fabrication is the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research, or other findings with the intent to deceive.
· Plagiarism is the representation of someone else’s words, ideas, or data as one’s own work. When a student submits work for credit that includes the words, ideas, or data of others, the source of that information must be acknowledged through complete, accurate, and specific references, and, if verbatim statements are included, through quotation marks as well. By placing his or her name on work submitted for credit, the student certifies the originality of all work not otherwise identified by appropriate acknowledgements.
(The above information is from page 4 of Beloit College’s Student Handbook and may be found at www.beloit.edu)