Academic Integrity: Importance, Implications, and a Game to Promote it

This report covers the definition of academic integrity, its relevance to higher education, and the implications of academic misconduct. It also discusses a game designed to promote academic integrity and the skills learned while producing it.

Academic Integrity

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity refers to the morale and the honesty of the individual and their
commitment while conducting any academic setting. As the norms and shared value that includes
the fairness, responsibility and the honesty of the individual. With the help academic integrity,
all the values put into practices at the workplace or the university, fairness to others and
responsibility for learning is assumed through the use of scientific conventions. This report will
be completed in two section. In first section, it covered the explanation of academic integrity and
its relevance to the higher education and its implication of academic misconduct as well. In
section-2, this reflects on the steps and the difficulties faced during producing a game. Moreover,
this shows the given skills that we learned during the production of the game(Vicente and et.al.,
2021).
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity supports in maintaining the legislation and the standards for the
academic vale of the education with the aim of removing the behaviour such as cheating and
plagiarism at the workplace or during their academic setting. It shows the fairness and the honest
behaviour of the individual in their education activities. When the individual focuses on the
ethical code of any sort of academic misconduct that can be controlled and knowledge by having
data among the users. This respective code of conduct is being applied by the teacher, educate
and ample of people will have the sense of honesty and other people are creating the best means
of things in having better results at a point of time. In the practice of academic integrity, research
and the develop is the important practices(Thomson, 2021). The term integrity defines the
adhering the characteristics of the individual in context to their principles and morals. When the
person is not following nay of the integrity rule by the person then attracted towards the penalty.
Previously this concept was associated to honour code that were monitored by scholar in which
the main consideration is on pride, self-esteem and power of the individual. This is consisting of
five elements which are given below:
 Trust- In order to avoid the errors which is being assessing by the people in order to
follow rules, polices and the regulation. This also helps in the development of the relation
with the colleagues, instructors that is completely based on actions. This helps the person

to have the sharing of information, collaboration and the ideas without any fear with the
help of their trust. As the thrust is being promoted by the individual while they are
preparing to work that is honesty, genuine and the thoughtful.
 Respect- As the respect for oneself and the other is all shown throughout the academic
communities. It is defined as an individual is respecting other person without harming
their own principles and ethics. It shows the appreciation of various opinions and that is
vital for refining ideas. When the individual value and they take the opportunities in
knowing new things by showing the active role in their higher education.
 Responsibility- AS the member of academic community are majorly responsible for
themselves and the other person to protect the integrity of the research, teaching and
scholarship. This also inspire the people to have the academic integrity standards in their
group. This is also responsible for the person who are responsible for their own actions
and they can work to discourage in preventing wrong actions by others.
 Honesty- The truthful attitude shown regarding ideas and knowledge that value the
appropriate behaviour of the students and their use of them. In such aspects they are
having their own research for the creation of their own knowledge. The development of
the trust is being influenced by the honesty as the educated follows instructions of their
teachers while conducting on own name without having nay unauthorised help(Van
Droogenbroeck, Kutnjak Ivkovic and Spruyt, 2021).
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education .
An academic integrity is defied as the important aspects which helps in creating
knowledge in individual behaviour with proper trust and honesty by which they can have the
better reputation. There is a development of academic skills for student while setting their
academic approach. When the education gives the freedom in the development of the policies by
which they can have the better understanding within their academic learning. This respective
policies and the procedure are influenced in order to ave the better action and rightly address
allegation of misconduct that brings the significance of academic integrity. There is the major
importance in offering them training and the required guidance to scholars and personnel for the
development of their effective approaches. By this, they can rightly maintain the academic
misconduct and the integrity of the individual. Whereas as on the basis of enhancement of their
practices, university is needed to have the trustworthy and consistent so that the confidence can

be created for the students who are creating degrees for themselves. The academic integrity has
its own significance in giving vale to their students as the employers always prefers high
education individual with their personal integrity. Academic integrity also helps in protecting
against the consequences which might leads to have the serious problems such as dropping out of
school or the college and receiving fines. This is vital to have the establishment of peace of mind
by doing the right things and acting continuously on the basis of those beliefs.
Discussing the implications of academic misconduct
The academic misconduct is defined as any sort of cheating that is directly affecting the
formal academic academic exercise. The university takes scientific misconduct which is leading
to have serious actions. This also ensures that this is dealing with the appropriate and effective
approach. It is also known by the name of the academic dishonesty, fraud that are related to
multiple acts by the students who violate the given norms of the educational establishment,
school and university. This type of academic misconduct are explained as follows:
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Project 2
As there is been seen that education plays a very important role in all the academic areas
and in the life of students. In order to manage the growth and the positivity their is required to
manage all the academic integrity in the academics with which all management of reputation is
being lined up(Hall, Masters, and Ordway, 2021). As there is been seen that so much of
academic misconduct is been observed with which their is been seen major affect in all the areas.
So to remove all such obstacles and issues in academic integrity I came up with a idea to design
a game with which I will try to create awareness in every individual to focus on academic
integrity and also to remove plagiarism. It is been seen that all such academic misconduct is been
prevented. Their is been seen that in order to avoid all such plagiarism there is been analysed that
this game is made by me as it will help in assisting and managing the misconduct and thorough
the enjoyment and fun aspects. The game I produced is the interactive game this game is mainly
being played in offline and online methods and all the login details are been required to be
managed in it. As in this game 5-6 players can play in team and will answer different questions
with which all the misconducts and the plagiarism can be removed. A time period will be given
and all right answer will provide the positive point. The main aim behind producing this game is

to remove all the plagiarism and misconduct from academics. As while making this game their
were certain problems which were faced by me they are like:
 The main issue I faced in structuring the game is to manage all the designs and all the
assembling of the presentation and the online settings as I wanted to make the people to
play this game both online and offline and to gain knowledge with it.
 The other issue is to frame and manage all the questions in the game as this was difficult
to make such question which will be interesting as well as provide knowledge to all.
 Third issue I faced was to assemble the game in systematic manner as which will manage
and give the details and will also covey certain message so as to create integrity and
management and future growth and development(Doucette, Ingvarsson and Long,
2021).
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game.
When I was making this game I got to know some of the skills which are very important
to study this game and they are the qualities I already do have in me and I also got to learn some
new skills also and some of them are discussed above:
 Creativity skills: When I was making this game I made the ideas in my mind that it is
the opportunity to develop the creating skills in me and it is the skills which is very
helpful for the students to learn and this skill has broaden my scope to make the game
more effective(Algase, and et.al., 2021).
 Teamwork skills: it is the most important skills for the student and I have made the
game accordingly to develop through regular practice. It refers to my ability to work well
with others to achieve a common goal. A team player will always prioritise the goals of
their team over individual interests. In fact teamwork is one of the most essential thing in
the game according to me .
 Technical skills: These are the abilities that I have in me and it is knowledge needed to
perform a specific tasks. They are practical and often relate to mechanical, information
technology, mathematical, or scientific tasks(Buckman, 2021).
 Power point knowledge: In the starting days in my school, I used to make many power
point presentations but during the making of this game, I came across to identify the
skills which I already do have in me and I also got the responsibility to inculcate new

skills in me and developed more knowledge about the power point presentation which
helped me in presenting my ideas in more effective manner.
CONCLUSION
From this above analysis it can be concluded that, education is one of the most important
element which helps in creating an development all the children and the individual certain
honesty and trust. Academic integrity is generally all such areas and working in which the trust
and the loyalty can be generated through which all the growth in the goodwill can be opted. It
helps out top manage and create all the positivity in the environment and also regulate the trust to
be build in students. Further it is also concluded that academic misconduct are like cheating,
falsification, plagiarism etc. which creates the major issue. This report managed to design a game
through which the academic integrity can be applied and managed.

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