Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This article discusses the importance of academic integrity in higher education and its implications. It explores the concept of academic misconduct, including plagiarism, cheating, and professional misconducts. The article also reflects on the steps taken and issues encountered in producing a game related to academic integrity, as well as the skills learned in an academic year.

Academic integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
Section 1...........................................................................................................................................4
Introduction of Academic integrity.............................................................................................4
importance of academic integrity in higher education ..............................................................4
Discuss the implication of academic misconduct.......................................................................5
Plagiarism....................................................................................................................................5
Cheating......................................................................................................................................6
Professional misconducts............................................................................................................6
section 2...........................................................................................................................................7
Reflect on the steps taken and issues encountered in producing the game.................................7
Reflect on skills learned in academic year..................................................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is a serious factors needs to be taken into consideration for every
student and universities out there. This defines various act of manner and performing academic
work with some limitations and rules. The report is going to carry out all the facts about
academic integrity as why it contains so much influence on a student lives and its education.
Moreover, there are various types of misconducts entitled with the work that are also going to
cover in this report with a personal reflection on learning outcome (Bretag 2019). Also,
discussion on the issues faced during developing game in order to make the students understand
about the concept.
Section 1
Introduction of Academic integrity
Academic integrity is an important concept in education level. It defines a set of rules and
procedure to gain qualification through universities and schools. It is the matter of honesty ,
responsibility, equality and appreciation on the work carries out by students. These integrity are a
part of academic operations that delivers a sense of value in performing activities and task
assigned by professors. It is the duty of student to provide fair and justified set of information so
that it does not violate any code of academic environment. The integrity reflects of being fair,
relevant , accurate and creditability towards own work and gain knowledge effectively. As per
this, students play their role in providing accurate work, and universities needs to appreciate
their working to fulfil their responsibility of integrity (Burgis-Kasthala 2020). when students gets
aware about what should be done and how it should be. They get able to follow all the rules and
keep them in mind before doing any unfair activities. It makes them influence to be trustworthy
in serving their work for themselves and others.
importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity is highly necessary for the universities in all around the world.
Getting higher education is not easy task to do as it contains various rules and bounding
regarding their academic performance. A student required to understand that in providing
projects, content, assignment must be filled and completed with honest writing as it is the duty
of students to accept their flaws and mistakes to overcome them by gaining relevant knowledge,
information and learning(White 2018). Student comes at university to enhance their skills by

engaging in various creative activities and project. So that various time and money gets invested
properly completing the purpose for which they have taken admission into
universities(Chukanova 2017). Higher education are essential for an individual which makes
them skilful, talented personality ion order set own career in future. In would only get possible
when education keeps on maintain academic integrity that is, equality and fairness in academic
working.
There are various importance arising in context of academic integrity for both students
and universities. In the view point of students, they are concerned about their right of education
and getting terminate from the universities. This fear may make them stop in abounding the
rules for academic environment. As these misconduct could cause severe alligation on students
education and qualification which will impact on their job whenever they go for an interview.
The academic environment is necessary to stop the students by doing improper functioning
which would harm others and make a cause for university existence(Douglas and Watt 2019)
(Eaton and Stoesz 2020). For which, the colleges provide immense trainings and guidance on
how to behave, manner and work will full dedication and follow the path of fair and generous
behaviour. The students must make a habit of eliminating others work and work more
effectively to get the same results by gaining good marks. The students comes to an age of adult
through which their stages of learning for professionalism begins which make irresistible impact
on their personality. Taking higher education is important to make them truthful and dedicated
towards their work that will be require to get a job role after leaving out with good academic
scores and performance(Tsang, Hanbidge and Tin 2018). So that, universities play important role
in taking decisions is good and bad for student's lives. So that they could maintain fenvor0omen
of strict actions and awareness.
Discuss the implication of academic misconduct
There are several implications entitled with academic misconduct as it considers the activities
performed by the students in order to take benefits for self reliance. This could be done in the
form of not providing the source and credit belong to others work. It is the matter of undisclosed
fact that contains penalties and severe punishment for the behaviour. There are several
implication put on when not being fair towards own work and lack with good score(Gerhardt
2020). It consider as a break of rules and regulations sets by the education department of UK.
These acts of academic misconduct could be done by engaging in the following acts:

Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the academic misconduct through which students make other work use on
the name of their own self. Basically, it is of making copies of others work by taking the exact
meaning and sentence on their work. The act of plagiarism could be taken into consideration on
up to a limit set by the university. But it should be different from the content of other writer.
Mainly student take the benefit of using other students work in order to avoid doing it for own.
Through these practices, other teammates get afraid in providing support of their work as they
have did great hard work in completing the project(Huberts 2018). Moreover, when student does
not provide relevant source through which they have taken the information also consider as
academic misconduct due to abolishment of copywriting of the writer. Students need to
understand the value of others potential and avoid being selfishness in the course of action. There
should be proper guidance and training providence to the students so that they keep themselves
away from the act of plagiarism.
Cheating
Cheating is the another form of academic misconduct. According to this, the students
usually complete their work on time but by taking others help. There are a lot of ways doing
cheating while clearing an examination, making projects and assignments or other activities.
Make use of other knowledge and skills Is considered into consideration. Universities consider
the matter of concern while checking on these assignments and come up with the cheating
process (Openo 2019). This academic misconduct is not reliable as it does not provide any
benefit to the student who has involved in cheating in enhancing its knowledge and applicability.
Working with the use of others thoughts and knowledge is totally unacceptable in the universities
as they provide knowledge and information to each student so that, cheating must get stop by
focusing on class lectures, education and working on self learning. Through which no student
will get scold for doing cheat or be a part of it.
Professional misconducts
Professionalism is highly influenced by the universities which bound the students to
work with well behaved manner. There are several rules and obligation encountered with the
university that must be undertake to work under these rules. Professionalism is necessary to
build some boundaries and limitation regarding to work and perform any academic task. These
obligation are necessary for the students to get success into their future while appearing in the

job. Professional misconduct raises when students does not provide relevant appreciation to
others work also, does not appreciate others for performing the work into professional level,
individual needs to understanding about taking roles and responsibility for others(Joyner 2017).
As it is required to develop a behaviour of being responsible ans mature towards their role and
task. Professionalism is the activity carried out by al the universities to teach every student about
being responsible for their own responsibility.
section 2
Reflect on the steps taken and issues encountered in producing the game
At first phase of the designing the game, me and my team were extremely excited to present our
own interest into writing into. But then, there thoughts come around to make it as per the
academic integrity that must be followed up and we were thinking of making it interesting into
practical manner.
I had come into conclusion to make a game that involve participation of every team member.
For that instance, me and my team decided to opt some questions on our own basis and thinking.
Each team member entitled to prepare questions and afterwards make it merge it into the
presentation. But this process easy to speak but were create quite chaos into the team. As every
member shown some similarities of question with each other which make them frustrated to
change it.
The severe difficulties we had faced during designing the game is to arrange it in sequence as per
the number letter so that player would match it easily without getting confuse. We have analysed
that there were no need to make it into structure as it come along with random number. This has
done because of improper communication with the team.
Me and my team members does not match our timings of working through which proper
communication and understanding did not flowed properly
In order to make the game on each cards, it drive me quite irritated to write it on each card so
that different question reflect on each card for each student.
Afterwards, it has been a big issues that who is going to represent the work as some members
has been a part of research, some of are presentation and others were in writing and creativity.
So that I had faced difficulties in designing a team with the help of a game that provided me
with the criteria of that communication is the key to success in any completion of project. There

should always be planning, organising the resources and assigning the work so that there should
be no arrival of conflicts and confusion.
Reflect on skills learned in academic year
In my academic year, I learned a lot of skills and abilities which are necessary to build my career
and gain good academic performance. by understanding the importance of academic integrity, I
come to the outcome and deicide to be honest with my classmates, teachers. Sop that m,y
fairness and loyalty would affect into positive way. I learned that being an individual obey all the
rules and guidelines of university will result in academic performance. so that, I could fulfil my
career objectives I learned a lot of things which impact on a student mindset therefore, I need to
understand about academic conduct and work on that basis. I learned to prepare projects by
showing interest in the activities and team performance also, this has improved my
communication and writing skills so that I could guide others and take responsibilities for
other's work. These skills w\ere necessary to undertake for me, I had no idea that communication
and team relation are this much necessary to complete one task together. So that I find myself
superior and responsible.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that academic integrity is very important for students because it helps in
removing academic misconduct. It is identified in each and every university and schools that
now students do not give their efforts to complete the project and for that reason they use other
tools to copy with their friends and colleagues projects. It is not good for students' development
and their career. It is very necessary for them that they should do not perform these type of
activities so that they can initiative regarding their career. They can grow and get success with
the help of academic integrity. It becomes very important for every person because all people are
doing studies in which they should make sure that they are following all guidelines with
authenticity.

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Gerhardt, P., 2020. Compensation. University of Michigan: Humanities Text Initiative.
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Joyner, D., 2017. A holistic approach to academic integrity in a CS1 MOOC. Proceedings of
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Openo, J.A., 2019. The International Dimension of Academic Integrity: An Integrative
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