Academic Guidelines 

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

Students are expected to build and maintain an academic partnership with their teachers based upon honesty, integrity and optimum effort. Immaculate High School views grades as a reflection of the student's original work, and an indication of the student's mastery of a particular academic area. Students are expected to practice honesty and uphold integrity by submitting only their own original work on all class assignments.

Cheating, plagiarism and other forms of personal dishonesty are serious violations of Immaculate High School's academic and disciplinary codes, and will be met by serious academic and disciplinary consequences. Immaculate High School students are neither to obtain nor give assistance in any form to other students taking quizzes or examinations.

Examples of behaviors that violate the integrity Immaculate High School expects of its students include but are not limited to:

1. Cheating, e.g., copying or looking at another student's test or quiz answers or crib notes.
2. Copying another student's homework.
3. Allowing another student to look at or copy one's answers.
4. Taking papers from other students, publications or the Internet.
5. Collusion, i.e., working with another person or persons when independent work is prescribed.
6. Inappropriate use of notes.
7. Falsification or fabrication of an assigned project, data, results, or sources.
8. Giving, receiving, offering, or soliciting information in examinations.
9. Utilization of previously prepared materials while taking examinations, tests, or quizzes.
10. The multiple submission of the same paper or report for assignments in more than one course without prior written permission of each instructor.
11. Plagiarism - the appropriation of information, ideas, or the language of other persons or writers and submission of them as one's own to satisfy the requirements of a course. Plagiarism includes copying not only another student's work, but also reference materials from any media source.

Academic sanctions may include failure to no credit for the assignment, redoing the assignment, or a lower overall grade. Additional disciplinary sanctions may include detention, suspension or expulsion.