Accountability

  • How does Canterbury Provide Accountability for Course Work?
    • All classes are designed to meet the 70-hour Carnegie Unit State requirement for (0.5) credit.
    • The use of OdysseyWare by Canterbury High School provides a continuous review of student's progress. OdysseyWare uses the teach/tech concept, allowing the student to receive immediate feedback on work completed, and allowing the teacher to track the student's progress and need for help with classes. In addition, students must be able to complete the lessons on grade level before they progress to the next level.
    • All testing is done under the supervision of a qualified teacher or proctor.
    • Canterbury Students are accepted into the military, with a passing score on the ASVAB (Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery).
  • Policy on Plagiarism and Cheating
    • No student will use anyone else's work without proper attribution.
      • Plagiarism is the improper use of, or failure to give credit to, another person's writings, visual or musical representation, or ideas. It can be an act as subtle as inadvertently neglecting to use quotation marks or references when using another source of as blatant as knowingly copying an entire paper, or parts of a paper, and claiming it as your own.

          - edited version of statement from Plagiarism.org, p. 1, May 15, 2000

    • All of the following are considered plagiarism
      • Turning in someone else's work as your own
      • Copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
      • Failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
      • Giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
      • Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
      • Copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)

        • - “Types of Plagiarism" Plagiarism.org. iParadigms, 2014. Web. 20 Nov. 2012.

    • Consequences/penalties
      • If a teacher suspects any case of plagiarism has occurred, an in school meeting between the faculty and the student will be held.  For the first offense:
        • The student receives a zero for the assignment. The teacher or faculty will decide whether the student can redo the work and how the zero will affect the student's grade.
        • Any instance of plagiarism will be kept on the student's official file.
        • Teacher will inform the parent(s) or guardian(s).
      • When teacher of faculty determine that the student has committed a second offense:
        • Student receives a zero for the assignment.
        • Student serves a one-day suspension. Suspension automatically results in a letter in the student’s file.
      • Any more offenses result in more serious disciplinary action.