Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity: Cheating Policy

A student is in violation of cheating or colluding as per New York City Public School’s Citywide Standards of Intervention and Discipline Measures (Infraction B-31) when they:

· Copy or attempt to copy from another’s exam paper during an examination

· Uses material while being assessed which is not authorized by the person giving the assessment

· Collaborate with another student during the assessment without authorization

· Knowingly use, buy, sell, steal, transport, solicit, in whole or in part, the contents of an unadministered assessment

· Substitute for another student or permit another student to substitute for one’s self to take an assessment

· Bribe another person to obtain an assessment that is to be administered

· Secure or provide copies of the assessment, scoring device, or answers to the assessment in advance of the administration

· Post answers to the assessment on the internet

· Use or potentially use an electronic device during an assessment

· Engage in fraudulent collaboration with another person or person(s) in preparing written work for credit

 

If cheating is suspected, the following actions are to be taken by the teacher:

1. The teacher must collect the copied work and any evidence of cheating and clearly document, in writing, their reasons for concluding cheating occurred. The teacher should document any observations of cheating made and, when possible, include the date, time, names of involved students, question numbers, seating chart, etc.

2. If the alleged violation happens during an examination, the students should be monitored and allowed to finish the exam; possibly in a separate location (department office, dean’s office).

3. The parent/guardian must be notified of the allegation and subsequent investigation.

4. Within 7 school days of the cheating offense a member of administration or designee will conduct an investigation. The student will be given an opportunity to respond to the allegation. The administrator/designee will determine if cheating occurred.

5. If it is determined that the student engaged in academic dishonesty, the student will be given at least one opportunity within a reasonable amount of time to redo the assessment/assignment or complete an alternative assessment/assignment that is of similar length, rigor, and format. This determination will be made by the teacher.

6. The redone assessment/assignment may receive a grade penalty up to 25%.

7. Not completing the redone work is the equivalent of not completing the original assessment/assignment.

8. Within 24 hours of the alleged incident, the student’s guidance counselor and dean’s office must be notified of the cheating offense and an OORS report must be created.

9. Any subsequent offenses of cheating by a student in the same or other subject classes will result in a conference between the student, teacher, parent/guardian, and counselor. At this conference, there will be a discussion about the possibility of disciplinary action.