Academic Integrity is the expectation that all members of the Princes Hill Secondary College academic community act with honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibilitycommunity uphold ethical standards in their academic pursuits by presenting original work and appropriately acknowledging the work of others. Demonstrating academic integrity is about producing and submitting assessments in an honest and fair way, acting and communicating ethically, and showing respect for the work of others. These guidelines reference the school's Academic Integrity Policy.
Working with academic integrity means:
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The opposite of academic integrity is academic misconduct. Academic misconduct is is conduct that attempts to obtain unfair academic advantage through misrepresentation, plagiarism, collusion, falsification, cheating, or any other breach of academic integrity for your own gain or the benefit of others. Academic misconduct undermines learning. Some examples of academic misconduct include:
- Copying paragraphs from the internet or another source and adding this to your essay without giving the correct credit and reference to the original author
- Using AI technology to write assessments
- Asking Copying work from a friend for answers to the homework questions
- Copying the answers for book work from worked solutions
- Handing in work done by a sibling or tutor as your own
- Attempting to use a phone, smart watch or computer in a test to look up information
- Telling students in another class about specific questions on a test before they do the task
Responsibilities of the school:
Teachers at Princes Hill Secondary College will provide explicit instructions for all assessment tasks with regards to:
- The conditions for the task to be completed under
- resources that may be used to complete the work
- The correct way to reference any external sources
Responsibilities of students:
Students must demonstrate academic integrity in their studies and assessment practices, and they are responsible for ensuring the authenticity and originality of all materials submitted for assessment.
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If you are an active member of the class, teachers will develop an understanding of your ideas and your work and will recognise these elements when you submit formal assessments.
Breaches of the Academic Integrity Policy:
If a teacher does not feel confident that the work you are submitting is your own, they will report the suspected breaches to your Year Level Leader and/or Sub School Leader. It will be your responsibility to verify the authenticity of your work.
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