Memo No. 6 For Parents | March 07, 2022

07 March 2022

Dear Parents / Guardians:

In its goal of producing holistically developed learners, the Department of Education in its Memorandum DM-OUCI-2021-395 reiterates its stand on maintaining academic honesty while upholding every learner’s integrity. DepEd stressed that academic honesty is a “foundational element of learning and fundamental principle of all academic institutions. Violations of the principle deprive learners of the opportunity to gain a confident command of the material they are credited with knowing, degrade the learning process, and demean the learning quality that the DepEd is committed to promote.”

Academic dishonesty, on the other hand, is defined as any conduct that obstructs the evaluation of a learner’s progress by misrepresenting the work being assessed and evaluated, as well as the learner’s actual knowledge (www.wpi.edu). Academic dishonesty can take many forms, which can be broadly classified as follows (Whitley & Keith-Spigel, 2002):

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Cheating

Plagiarism

Fabrication or Falsification

Sabotage

Contract cheating

In line with this, we would like to reiterate our Policy Against Academic Dishonesty:

FIRST OFFENSE:

SECOND OFFENSE:

THIRD OFFENSE:

PROCEDURE IN LEARNER DISCIPLINE

STEP 1

STEP 2

STEP 3

STEP 4

The school recognizes the limitations of managing assessments in the current learning set-up; however, we encourage teachers, students, and parents to seek out opportunities to teach academic integrity among learners and discourage them from feeding on laziness and instant gratification as this will generate devastating effects on their values.

REPLY SLIP

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