International Baccalaureate Mission Statement

The International Baccalaureate® aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable, and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect. To this end, the organization works with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right. (IBO)

Rupani Academy Mission Statement

To provide quality education focusing on life skills and personality development for the upbringing of a generation of productive and contributing global citizens.

Philosophy of Academic Honesty and Integrity at Rupani Academy

The purposes of this academic honesty policy are to:

• Define academic honesty and dishonesty in the context of the Academy’s curriculum.
• Maintain the integrity of academic achievement at the Academy.
• Fairly and consistently deal with matters related to academic dishonesty.

Rupani Academy believes in promoting a strong set of values and ethical behaviors that promote personal integrity in teaching, learning, and assessment. We believe in upholding academic honesty to ensure that all students have an equal opportunity to demonstrate the knowledge and skills they acquire during their studies. Our Academic Honesty Policy focuses on educating our students to be principled; acting with integrity and honesty, practicing a sense of fairness and justice, and respecting the dignity and rights of people.

The Academic Honesty Policy is dynamic and designed to ensure the production of students’ own work and recognition of the work of others. This means they will act with integrity and are ultimately responsible for the authenticity of their work and acknowledgment of their sources. In order to understand and intervene in appropriate academic integrity and honesty practices, the common understanding of malpractice is defined and elaborated. Moreover, the responsibilities of all parties in preventing malpractice and encouraging principled behavior in the learning environment of our schools.

Importance of Academic Honesty

• Lack of academic integrity undermines the philosophy of any educational programme.
• Intellectual property borders have blurred, and students are not clear who owns the information available on the internet.
• Students engaging in academic misconduct miss the “learning opportunity”.

For PYP:

• Understand and learn how to be principled in their research and inquiry cycles.
• Explore and learn different types of reliable information sources to be used during learning processes.
• Begin to understand the simplest ways of citing sources and referencing their work.
• Learn about plagiarism in (Grade 4 & 5) and ways to avoid it.
• Learn the importance of producing original work specifically for PYP Exhibition in the final year.

For MYP:

Definitions and Examples of Academic Dishonesty/Misconduct

Other Examples of Malpractice

• Taking unauthorized material into an examination room (e.g., an electronic device other than a permitted calculator, own rough paper, notes, etc.).
• Misconduct during an examination, including any attempt to disrupt the examination or distract another candidate.
• Exchanging or in any way supporting, or attempting to support, the passing of information that is related to an examination.
• Copying the work of another candidate.
• Failing to comply with the instructions of the invigilator or other member of the school’s staff responsible for the conduct of the examination.
• Impersonating another candidate.
• Stealing examination papers.
• Using an unauthorized calculator during an examination.
• Disclosing or discussing the content of an examination paper with a person outside the immediate community within 24 hours after the examination.