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The PCHS Academic Integrity Code is a statement about the
importance of honesty and integrity within our academic
community. It articulates PCHS expectations of students in
maintaining the highest standards in academic work.
Academic integrity lies at the heart of the values
expressed in the PCHS mission statement and is inspired by the
spirit of Saint Augustine. When one comes to PCHS, one joins an
academic community founded on the search for knowledge in an
atmosphere of cooperation and trust. The intellectual health of
the community depends on this trust and draws nourishment from
the integrity and mutual respect of each of its members.
The Academic Integrity Code is an undertaking of the
students, individually and collectively. They will do their
share and take an active part in seeing that others as well as
themselves uphold the spirit and letter of the Academic
Integrity Code.
While the faculty alone has the right and obligation to set
academic requirements, the students, faculty, and parents will
work together to establish optimal conditions for honorable
academic work. The faculty will also avoid, as far as
practicable, academic procedures that create temptations to
violate the Academic Integrity Code.
Listed below are examples of situations that would be in
violation of the Academic Integrity Code of PCHS:
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Plagiarism – submitting another person’s writing as one’s
own
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Obtaining
or illegally accepting a copy of a test or test key
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Giving or
receiving test questions or answers to/from other students
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Copying
from another student’s test or knowingly permitting another
student to copy during a test
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Using
materials or means which are not permitted during a test
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Copying –
having someone other than the student prepare the student’s
homework, paper, project, report or take home exam for which
credit is given
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Permitting another student to copy one’s work or ideas
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Changing
grades in a grade book or on a computer grade sheet
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Engaging
in any action intended to obtain credit for work not one’s
own
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Impersonating another student to assist him academically
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Engaging
in any other action that is in violation, either of the
spirit or the letter, of this Code.
The following procedure will be implemented for violations
of the PCHS Academic Integrity Code:
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The
teacher will discuss the incident with the student.
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The
teacher will contact the parents/guardians and inform them
of the incident.
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The
teacher will assign a zero for the academic work.
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The
teacher will record on an Academic Integrity Report Form the
date and time of the contact with the parents/guardians, a
written narrative of the incident and, when possible, attach
a photocopy of the academic work in question.
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The
teacher will submit this Academic Integrity Report to the
student’s counselor for inclusion in the student’s file.
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The
counselor will submit this Academic Integrity Report to the
moderator of the National Honor Society when applicable.
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If the
infraction of the Code is discovered by a teacher or staff
member other than the teacher for whose class the academic
work is intended, that teacher or staff member will assist
the classroom teacher in following the procedure outlined
above.
Violations of the PCHS Academic Integrity Code are
cumulative throughout the student’s career at PCHS. Upon the
third documented violation, the student will be called before
the school Academic Committee. The Academic Committee will
decide the appropriate sanction for the accumulated violations.
All students of PCHS are expected to know the contents and
meaning of the Academic Integrity Code. Ignorance of the Code
is not a valid reason for committing an act of academic
dishonesty.
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