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Academic Integrity Policy

Advanced Learning Schools · 2025/2026

2025 – 2026
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Guiding Statements

Our Vision

Advanced Learning Schools prepare global citizens to meet the challenges of an ever-changing world while honoring their own cultural heritage and identity.

Our Mission

Advanced Learning Schools offer a high-quality education in a safe and caring environment, with a commitment to life-long learning and digital citizenship, while inspiring students to become creative, compassionate, and analytical thinkers.

Our Core Values (CREM Framework)

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Caring Community
We promote compassion and respect for all, ensuring that each individual feels safe, valued, and supported in their learning and growth.
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Responsibility
We encourage ethical behaviour and accountability in all decisions and actions, fostering a culture of integrity and trust.
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Excellence
We pursue the highest standards in education and innovation, cultivating curiosity, critical thinking, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
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Making a Difference
We inspire service to others and encourage every member of our community to contribute positively to society, both locally and globally.
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Statement of Purpose

ALS embodies a culture of trust, integrity and honesty that is applied throughout the whole school community. Encouraged by our vision and mission, and our commitment towards a life-long learning journey in the light of cultural and religious values, we uphold this policy that highlights our Academic Integrity values.

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Important IB Terminology

Student Academic MisconductDeliberate or inadvertent behavior that has the potential to result in the student, or anyone else, gaining an unfair advantage in one or more components of assessment.
Academic IntegrityA guiding principle in education and a choice to act in a responsible way whereby others can have trust in us as individuals. It is the foundation for ethical decision-making and behavior in the production of legitimate, authentic and honest scholarly work.
MalpracticeBehavior that results in, or may result in, the student or any other student gaining an unfair advantage in one or more assessment components.
PlagiarismThe representation of the ideas or work of another person as a person’s own.
CollusionSupporting malpractice by another, as in allowing one’s work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another.
Duplication of WorkPresentation of the same work for different assessment components.
MisconductAny behavior that gains an unfair advantage for a student or that affects the results of another student.
Fair UseLimitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.
CopyrightLegal right created by the law of a country, which grants the creator of original work exclusive rights to its use and distribution, usually for a limited time, with the intention of enabling the creator to receive compensation for their intellectual effort.
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Responsibilities

4.1 Student Responsibilities

  • 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 giving or 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.
  • Support academic honesty; it is each student’s responsibility to ensure that all work submitted is their own and that all ideas and thoughts are correctly acknowledged.

4.2 Parents’ Responsibilities

  • Discuss the policy with their children, sign it, and send it back at the beginning of every academic year.
  • Support the school in reinforcing the policy.
  • Encourage their children to maintain high standards with regards to assignment submission.
  • Where private home tutors provide support, ensure this is in alignment with the school’s expectations and recommendations.

4.3 School Responsibilities

  • The school is committed to raising all necessary awareness about the importance of academic integrity.
  • All teachers are responsible for ensuring academic honesty and integrity are maintained throughout their subjects, by educating students about academic honesty, plagiarism and other forms of malpractice.
  • The school applies all measures to reinforce academic integrity using Turnitin, Google Classroom Originality Reports, Grammarly, and other reliable tools to check student work for plagiarism.
  • MLA citation style is used; teachers ensure all students know how to follow this format appropriately.
  • Academic dishonesty is treated as a learning and counseling issue first and a discipline issue second.
  • The school clarifies consequences to all stakeholders and keeps records of each incident of cheating or plagiarism on classwork, homework, quiz, test, project, paper, lab, etc.
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Consequences of Academic Honesty Malpractice

5.1 PYP

  • Review work with teacher.
  • Receive guidance on how to eliminate any malpractice.
  • Submit work re-edited without any plagiarism.
  • Request parent conference in case of a 2nd infraction.

5.2 MYP / DP

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1st Infraction
Teacher meets with the student and contacts parents, and reports the infraction to the administration. The student is allowed to resubmit the work after revision with a 20% grade deduction.
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2nd Infraction
Teacher meets with the student and contacts parents. A parent conference is held with the student, teacher and an administrator to discuss the infraction and review the Academic Integrity contract and policy. The student may make up the work with a 50% grade deduction.
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3rd Infraction
Teacher meets with the student and contacts parents. A parent conference is held with the student and an administrator. Based on administrative review, the student may be suspended, receives a failing grade, and is not allowed to make up the work.
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4th Infraction
Teacher meets with the student and contacts parents. A parent conference is held to review the student’s continued enrollment at the school. The student receives a failing grade and is not allowed to make up the work.
DP / IB Assessments: If academic dishonesty is observed in IB internally assessed components, the work will be returned to the student, who will be given time to submit it at the discretion of the teacher.