Glendale High School Academic Honesty Plan

Academic Dishonesty (Cheating/Plagiarism) includes the following:

1. Using, or attempting to use, any king of unauthorized means of gaining an unfair advantage on quizzes, tests or assignment.
2. Using someone else's words, work, and/or ideas and claiming them as your own.
3. Intentionally helping or attempting to help another to participate in academic dishonesty.

Examples of Academic Dishonesty include, but are not limited to:

1. Copying assignments or allowing another student to copy your assignment.
2. Looking on another's test or quiz or allowing another student to look on your test or quiz.
3. Sending, receiving, or using information on any electronic devise, such as a computer, cell phone, PDA, graphing calculator or programmable watch, during a test or quiz.
4. Possession or use of unauthorized materials obtained from any source, including notes written on body parts or clothing.
5. Talking, signaling, and/or passing information during a test or quiz.
6. Changing an answer after work has been graded, then presenting it as improperly graded.
7. Sharing answers on a take-home exam, or asking or allowing another student to take an examination for you.
8. Obtaining or seeing a test, quiz or answer key before the test without the teacher's knowledge. Saying that you did not know your paper was being copied is NOT an excuse. Keep your papers covered or in your possession at all times.
9. Discussing or providing information about a quiz or test with students who have not yet completed the assessment.
10. Retaining, copying, possessing, using or circulating previously given examination materials, where those materials clearly indicate that they are to be returned to the instructor at the conclusion of the examination.
11. Using text or another's ideas from an encyclopedia, book, textbook, website, database, or any other source without citation.
12. Hiring someone to write your paper. Buying a paper or project. Allowing others to do the research and writing of an assigned paper. Turning in a paper or translation retrieved from an Internet source, whether free or for a fee.
13. Allowing another person to do your projects for example: writing assignments, drawing, painting, or any other art work, then submitting it under your name.
14. Submitting identical or similar papers for credit in more than one class without prior permission from the teachers.
15. Falsifying or inventing any information, data or citation.
16. Changing grades in a grade book or altering a computer grading program.
17. Allowing a partner or other group members to do all the work, then putting your name on the final report. Putting the name of a group member or partner on a final report when that person did not contribute to the finished product.
18. Taking someone else's work and writing your name on it.