Academic Honesty Workshop, in association with Ibicus
It is an IBO requirement that every IB World School that offers the Diploma Programme has a policy to promote academic honesty.
(Diploma Programme: Academic Honesty. Geneva: IBO, 2007, 6)
This workshop is intended for all who are concerned with issues of academic honesty within the International Baccalaureate context, including teachers (especially those involved in extended essay supervision), administrators, coordinators and librarians.
Participants will gain an understanding of
• IB expectations and requirements, and how the school can meet them;
• the fine divides between malpractice, misconduct, and just plain ignorance;
• referencing and documentation systems, what the IB requires of our students, and what we can and should expect of them;
• why and how students cheat;
• when to suspect and how to detect/ confirm plagiarism;
• the strengths and the weaknesses of automated plagiarism detection systems;
• what to do when cheating is uncovered;
• suggestions for preventing cheating happening in the first place;
• the tools to critique your school’s academic honesty policy (and what you could well consider if your school has not yet got its policy together).
Participants will also leave with material they can use, or adapt for use, in their own schools, with teachers and with students, to promote awareness of acceptable practice, and of practice which should be avoided.
John Royce has served sixteen years in IB Schools, and is an authorized DP workshop leader. He has qualifications in both teaching and librarianship and has worked in Zambia, England, Malawi, Germany and Turkey. Although a full-time school librarian for more than twenty-five years, he sees himself as teacher first. In addition to workshops on academic honesty (and on other subjects too), he has had several articles and papers published in the professional press.
