Fountainhead Student Mission Statement: “To nurture leaders with character and competence”.

The kind of leaders that the school hopes to nurture are those who can take charge of their lives, work effectively with others, do the right thing even when no one is watching them, and are internationally minded. Such leaders need both character and competence to survive and succeed.

Academic integrity is the commitment and demonstration of ethical behavior in an academic setting which also includes Fountainhead values and IB learner profile. Academic integrity gives its stakeholder an opportunity to develop character which is one of the goals of the mission statement.

In an age where information and opinions are readily available and exponentially growing, it is important to educate students to talk about this information confidently or write about their learning explicitly; focusing on the process of how they constructed their ideas, as well as what perspectives they agreed with or rejected. This is essentially what academic integrity is: making knowledge, understanding and thinking transparent.

Students need to understand how knowledge is constructed and, consequently, their own role in furthering knowledge construction and building understanding. The technical skills (accurately citing and referencing) are essential but the understanding of the concepts and values behind them comes first.

This will also provide a safe learning environment for students supporting academically honest behaviors. (“Academic Honesty In The IB Educational Context”)

The major objectives of the school are:

• To ensure that all students understand what academic integrity is.
• To prepare the school community for the responsible use of AI tools.
• To show respect for the work of others.
• To develop respect among the students for the integrity of all forms of assessment.
• To provide guidelines to students on study skills and academic writing.
• To provide guidelines to students on how to conduct research and how to acknowledge primary and secondary sources.
• To make students understand what constitutes malpractice.
• To make them aware of the consequences of malpractice.
• To foster a school culture that promotes good academic practice and actively encourages academic integrity.
• To inform legal guardians regarding the general characteristics of the Academic Integrity Policy and how the school implements it. This is done through Parent Teacher Conferences and policy-related sessions conducted for the parents.

Standard: Culture through policy implementation (0301)

• The school implements, communicates and regularly reviews an academic integrity policy that creates cultures of ethical academic practice. (0301-03)
• The school implements and reviews an academic integrity policy that makes the school’s philosophy clear and is aligned with IB guidelines. (0301-03-0100)
• The school clearly describes in its academic integrity policy the rights and responsibilities of all members of the school community, what constitutes good practice and misconduct, and the actions that are to be taken if there are transgressions. (0301-03-0200)
• The school articulates responsibilities for teaching a variety of practices related to academic integrity, and reflects its five fundamentals: honesty, trust, fairness, respect and responsibility. (0301-03-0300)
• The school ensures that relevant support materials, resources and structures related to the academic integrity policy are implemented. (0301-03-0400)
• The school monitors and evaluates the impact of the academic integrity policy to ensure that it regularly informs learning and teaching across the curriculum and that the school’s procedures are transparent, fair and consistent. (0301-03-0500)

Standard: Students as lifelong learners (0402)

• Students and teachers comply with IB academic integrity guidelines. (0402-04-0100)
• Students and teachers acknowledge the intellectual property of others when producing work. (0402-04-0200)
• The school provides support and guidance for students on acknowledging the work of others, including guidance on citation and referencing. (0402-04-0300)
• Teachers discuss with students the significance and importance of producing authentic and original work. (0402-04-0400)

Standard: Approaches to assessment (0404)

• The school ensures that external reporting and/or predictions are as accurate as possible, and are appropriately designed for the contexts in which they are required. (0404-03-0300)

Academic Integrity refers to:

• a set of values (honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility) and skills that promote personal integrity and good practice in teaching, learning and assessment.
• display of respect and protection of intellectual property in all forms which include creative expression, as well as patents, registered designs, trademarks, moral rights and copyright and ensuring authenticity.
• promoting the use of students’ own language, expression and ideas & appropriate acknowledgement in case the ideas or work of another person are represented.

As per the IB Effective citing and referencing (2014), “As creators/authors, we are expected to acknowledge any materials or ideas that are not ours and that have been used in any way, such as quotation, paraphrase or summary. The term “materials” means written, oral or electronic products, and may include the following but is not limited to:

• Quotations
• Summaries
• Visual
• Photographs
• Pieces of music
• Letters
• Graphics
• Broadcasts
• Artworks
• Maps
• Lectures
• Charts
• Interviews
• Tweets
• Advertisements
• Blogs
• Newspaper articles
• Information reproduced from websites/AI tools
• Data from tables or graphs
• A film/scenes from a film

Basic and common knowledge within a field or subject does not need to be acknowledged. However, if we are in doubt whether the source material is common knowledge or not, we should cite.”

The librarian works with Programme Coordinators and students to help develop research skills in alignment with the academic integrity policy and procures various books and other resources. The librarian with the Coordinator creates examples of citations to help students and conducts sessions for teachers and students. (Appendix 2)

Academic Honesty In The IB Educational Context, 2014. ATL link: Thinking skills, Social Skills, Self-Management Skills, Research Skills, Communication Skills

• Assessment Policy
  It is important for the PYP teachers to cite the referred sources used for all their work/assignment. And students follow academic integrity for all assignments, culminating projects, group work, oral presentations, and other assignments in an honest manner. They are also required to show a responsible use of the internet while conducting the research work.
  More details are available in FSM Assessment Policy
• ICT Policy
  It is important to follow academic integrity because the school believes that the learner profile attributes play a major role in the development of academic integrity in our students and staff. The school expects the stakeholders to learn to cite sources when they use print and online material; also, develop and demonstrate integrity and being responsible in the process.

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• Mathur, Aneesha. “Photocopying Books For Students Does Not Infringe Copyright: Delhi High Court.” The Indian Express 2019. Web. 28 Nov. 2019. <https://indianexpress.com/article/education/photocopying-books-for-students-does-not-infringe-copyright-hc-3035219/>.
• “Programme Standards and Practices 2020.” IBO, IBO, Apr. 2020, <www.ibo.org/globalassets/new-structure/become-an-ib-school/pdfs/programme-standards-and-practices-2020-en.pdf.>

1. 1. Samples for PYP on how to cite sources
2. 2. Citation Guidelines (MLA 7 style) and few definitions
3. 3. Elements to be included in reference
4. 9. How to check usage rights

School guidelines while writing assignments

• During the research process, students have to simply add numbered footnotes with the web site link without worrying about the MLA 7 format or in-text citation. If not a web site, then add the book / magazine / person’s detail in whatever format you wish to.
• After that they will use Author-Year for in-text citation, and the full references will ONLY be visible in the bibliography (or Works Cited) section at the end.
• The in-text citation words (such as Nayar 2016) must match the first word of the full reference (which should also begin with Nayar).
• The list of references should be arranged alphabetically. (Bibliography)
• While MLA7 make the web link optional, but as a FSM guideline, students have to INCLUDE the full web link in the full citation (which appears at the end). For that they need to select MLA7 with url if they are using “cite this for me” as an online citation tool.

Category 1: Citing printed sources

1a: Citing a book

1b: Citing a magazine (Print)

Category 2: Citing non-print electronic sources

2a: Citing a website

Category 3: Citing online video clip

Category 4: Citing a DVD

Category 5: Citing social media

Category 6: Citing an image

Work cited: https://app.refme.com/home#/project/2397338

Definitions (“Effective citing and referencing”, 2014)

Citation

A citation is an indication (signal) in the text that this (material) is not ours; we have “borrowed” it (as a direct quote, paraphrase or summary) from someone or somewhere else. The citation in the text can be:

• in the form of an introductory phrase, or
• at the end of the statement, or
• indicated by a superscript or bracketed number that leads to a similarly numbered footnote or endnote.

Every citation should be given a full reference that enables the reader to locate the exact source used.

Bibliography/ Work cited/Reference

Most style guides require a list of references at the end of the work (in our case it is MLA 7). This is usually a list, in alphabetical order, of the authors (last name first), whose words and works have been cited in the work. The title of this section varies from one style guide to another. Each entry in the list of references includes the full information (or as much of it as can be found), expressed in a consistent fashion, which will allow an interested reader to track down exactly where you found the material you have used and cited.

Paraphrase

In writing an essay, we often use our own words to put over someone else’s thoughts and ideas. While there are some words that we cannot change (especially the names of people, places, chemicals, and so on), we should use our own words for as much as we can of the rest of the passage. We should also aim to change the structure of the passage, perhaps by reordering the thoughts and ideas.

When we paraphrase, we need to make it very clear where the original author’s ideas start and where they finish. If we include our own examples, we should make it clear that these are our thoughts and not those of the original author.