ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

The school will identify and discuss with students and parents if there is a pattern of missed assessments or repeated extensions. The school reserves the right to limit students’ cocurricular activities when there is significant academic concern around the completion of evaluations and will identify students whose credit is at risk due to a large number of missed evaluations.

Attendance during the final evaluation period is compulsory. Students who miss a final evaluation will receive zero for the evaluation unless the absence is verified and legitimate. For the absence to be considered legitimate, the student must have had a medical concern for which documentation can be provided. For any other absence to be considered legitimate, the Associate Director, Academics must approve the exceptional circumstance. When the evaluation is deemed to be required to be completed, it must be done expediently.

If a student is experiencing academic challenges, there is a full system of support that can be utilized, and students should communicate with the following individuals:

• Teacher: Immediate discussion with the teacher is the most direct and effective way to resolve an academic concern. • Advisor: The advisor supports the advisee through coursework obstacles and liaises with teachers and/or parents, as necessary. • Associate Director, Academics: When a matter cannot be resolved through discussion with a teacher or advisor, it should be referred to the Associate Director, Academics.

Reassessment Policy

To provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate mastery of course content and to compensate for the possibility that a student may not achieve at their best on a given day, the following practice will be set into place:

• Faculty have the authority to offer a re-test or re-submission of an evaluation if they deem that the student has demonstrated outstanding learning skills and work habits and has taken advantage of all available academic supports in advance. A student does not have the right to expect this accommodation, and faculty are asked to be judicious in their application of this prescriptive opportunity.

Academic Integrity

The staff at St. Anne’s School has a responsibility to:

• teach its students to function with academic integrity; • embed strategies in the curriculum that will enable students to act with academic integrity; • offer an academic integrity policy that can be enforced in a consistent and measured manner, considering the unique nature of each situation; • ensure students’ understanding of academic integrity is enduring and prepares them for future academic success; • create assessments and evaluations that preclude the possibility of cheating; • ensure new students are aware of the expectations and skills required at the grade level they are entering.

• must demonstrate honesty in all academic endeavours; • must take an active role in the learning process; • have a responsibility to understand all academic integrity policies, including knowing the different forms of plagiarism and cheating and how to avoid them; • must understand there will be consequences for academic dishonesty, including plagiarizing and/or cheating.

Definitions

Plagiarism consists of, but is not necessarily limited to:

• misrepresenting someone else’s work as one’s own: e.g., copying another student’s paper or an article from a journal or website; buying an essay from an external source; • patchwriting: writing a paper by simply patching together blocks of text, perhaps with slight modification, taken from one or more sources; • paraphrasing or summarizing information from a source without citation; • quoting material without the proper use of quotation marks (even if otherwise cited correctly); • translating a work from one language to another without citation.

Cheating consists of, but is not necessarily limited to:

• using unauthorized notes or other aids in a test or exam or copying from or being influenced by another student’s work during an evaluation or assessment; • giving unauthorized aid to another student; allowing another student to copy or use one’s test, exam, paper, or homework; • receiving excessive assistance with homework or take-home tests from a tutor, parent, or fellow student; • using translating software or translations of texts studied in class without the teacher's permission; • submitting the same work for credit to more than one teacher unless both teachers give permission; • misusing technology, including but not limited to cellphones, calculators, and laptops; • using the intellectual property of another individual without acknowledging the source; • file sharing without the teacher’s permission; • the intentional manipulation of teacher/student feedback notes within any OneNote

“shared” file.

Process:

Throughout the student’s academic career, the student is responsible for adhering to the Academic Integrity Policy. Those found guilty of plagiarism/cheating or other violations of the Academic Integrity Policy will be subject to the following disciplinary response. The consequences may vary depending on the nature of the incident, and there will be an escalated response for repeat offences.

Academic Warning:

If a student is referred to the Associate Director, Academics due to a concern that the Academic Integrity Policy has been breached, the matter will be reviewed carefully. If no definitive conclusion can be reached, yet the student has behaved, whether advertently or inadvertently, in a manner where there may be the perception of academic indiscretion, then the Associate