Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion.
Cheating on a test shall include:
- Copying from another student’s test
- Using test materials not authorized by the person administering the test
- Collaborating with or seeking aid from another student during a test without permission from the test administrator
- Knowingly using, buying, selling, stealing, or soliciting, in whole or in part, the contents of an unadministered test.
- The unauthorized transporting or removal, in whole or in part, of the contents of the un-administered test.
- Substituting for another student, or permitting another student to substitute for one’s self, to take a test.
- Bribing another person to obtain an un-administered test or information about an un-administered test.
Plagiarism shall be defined as the appropriating, buying, receiving as a gift, or obtaining by any means another’s work and the unacknowledged submission or incorporation of it in one’s own written work.
Collusion shall be defined as the unauthorized collaboration with another person in preparing written work for fulfillment of course requirements.
Electronic Devices – Students should have all cell phones, MP3 players, and other electronic devices turned off at all times when in the classrooms, recital, computer lab piano lab, and library.