International Baccalaureate (IB) Guide: Academic Integrity & Honesty

The IB Academic Integrity guide (2019, p.16) outlines the following responsibilities for students:

• Have a full understanding of their school’s and the IB’s policies
• Respond to acts of student academic misconduct and report them to their teachers and/or programme coordinators
• Respond to acts of school maladministration and report them to their teachers and/or programme coordinators
• Complete all assignments, tasks, examinations and quizzes in an honest manner and to the best of their abilities
• Give credit to used sources in all work submitted to the IB for assessment in written and oral materials and/or artistic products
• Abstain from receiving non-permitted assistance in the completion or editing of work, such as from friends, relatives, other students, private tutors, essay writing or copy-editing services, pre-written essay banks or file sharing websites
• Abstain from giving undue assistance to peers in the completion of their work • show a responsible use of the internet and associated social media platforms.

The IB Academic Integrity guide (2019, p.47) outlines the following points on avoiding plagiarism:

• Read and understand their school’s academic integrity and honesty policy.
• Design time schedules or plans to manage tasks sensibly.
• Maintain organized notes and sources consulted during the production of work.
• Seek guidance and support from their teachers or tutors when doubts arise about referencing.
• Cite sources by making clear which words, ideas, images and works are from others, including maps, charts, musical compositions, films, computer source codes and any other material.
• Give credit for copied, adapted, paraphrased and translated materials from others. • Make sure that information used is acknowledged in the body of the text and is fully listed in the bibliography using the referencing style agreed with the teacher or tutor.

For further details about the IB’s expectations in regards to referencing see the publication Effective citing and referencing.