IBDP Coordinator

Stephanie Bilimoria

(703) 824-3945
[email protected] 

Find out more about the IB Diploma Programme.

IBMYP Coordinator

Katherine Naughton

(703) 824-3975
@email

FInd out more about the Middle Years Programme.

 

IB Mission

The International Baccalaureate (IB) Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end, the IB Organization works with schools, governments, and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programmes encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate, and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right.

Find out more about the IB Programs

 

IB Learner Profile

The Learner Profile is the IB Mission statement in action.  Find out more.

 

IB Ethics

Candidates are required to act in a responsible and ethical manner throughout their participation in the Diploma Programme and examinations. The IB Organization is entitled to refuse to mark or moderate assessment material if a candidate has acted in an irresponsible or unethical manner in connection with that part of assessment for the Diploma Programme, for example, if a candidate includes offensive or obscene material that is unrelated to the content of the assessment. In such cases the final award committee is entitled to award a mark of zero for the component or part(s) of the component that are not assessed due to such irresponsible or unethical behaviour.

There can be instances where work submitted by a candidate for assessment contravenes the standard academic practice of clearly acknowledging all ideas and words of other persons without the candidate having made a deliberate attempt to gain an unfair advantage, for example, where a candidate has not used some means of indicating a quotation, but has cited the source of the text in the bibliography or in a footnote. The final award committee may designate a case of this type an academic infringement and not malpractice.

If the final award committee decides that an academic infringement has been established, no marks will be awarded for the component or part(s) of the component. The candidate will still be eligible for a grade in the subject or IB diploma requirement concerned. The head of school will be notified that this action has been taken. The case will not be recorded as malpractice.

The IB Organization defines malpractice as behaviour that results in, or may result in, the candidate or any other candidate gaining an unfair advantage in one or more assessment components. Malpractice includes the following:

• Plagiarism: this is defined as the representation of the ideas or work of another person as the candidate's own

• Collusion: this is defined as supporting malpractice by another candidate, as in allowing one's work to be copied or submitted for assessment by another

• Duplication of work: this is defined as the presentation of the same work for different assessment components and/or IB diploma requirements

• Any other behaviour that gains an unfair advantage for a candidate or that affects the results of another candidate (for example, taking unauthorized material into an examination room, misconduct during an examination, falsifying a CAS record, disclosure of information to and receipt of information from candidates about the content of an examination paper within 24 hours after a written examination).