Academic Integrity: Significance, Implications of Misconduct, and Game Production

This report discusses academic integrity, its significance, and implications of misconduct in universities. It also covers the steps and difficulties faced during game production and the skills developed during the process.

Academic Integrity

INTRODUCTION
Academic Integrity is meant by moral codes or ethical policies of University which
allows students and teachers the independency to develop new ideas, creative knowledge and
works while giving credit to the original writers (Chala, 2021). In the first section of report, it
includes brief introduction of academic integrity and its significance in the university. It also
explains the implications of academic misconduct in the universities. Second section of report
includes the steps and difficulties which are found by an individual during the production of
game. Lastly, it is going to discuss several skills which an individual learned during academic
year.
Section 1
Academic Integrity
In academy, the academic integrity means the moral code and commitment of
demonstrating the honesty in an academic setting. Academic integrity is consisting six values
such as honesty, respect, fairness, trust, responsibility and courage. The grandfather of academic
integrity was Don McCabe. Other prominent scholars of academic integrity include Cath Ellis,
Tracey Bretag, Thomas Lancaster, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Tricia Bertram Gallant and Foltynek. It
serves the presentation of academic ethics through behavior such as plagiarism, avoidance of
contract cheating and cheating, while maintaining the academic values rigor and honesty in
research and publishing. It signifies to avoid cheating and pleasure is no other misconduct
behavior. It is applied by most of educational institutions and it is mentioned in honor codes,
mission statements, policies and procedures, but it is also educated in ethics classes (Omarova,
2019). In higher education, most of the universities have sections on their official websites
dedicated to academic integrity which explains the importance of academic integrity to their
particular institution. Here, honor code can support to enhance the honesty and trust to students
and praises to those who originally wrote it. It can also support the pupils and teachers produce
an honor pledge that it allows them to have severe penalties to those individuals who are nnot
performing with ethics and academic value in the academy. It is also developed before any
project is assigned and required to be read over and signed order to demonstrate that the pupil is
agreeing do not interrupt any rules. Hence, academic integrity for pupils in the university means
to make them practice the academic values of being honest in their academic work in the

university. This also consist of being fair to others and have courage and take responsibility for
the education they have in their university.
Academic Integrity’s significance for the students, University and for new ideas.
Academic Integrity is the most important part in the higher education. It supports learners
in different ways in order to educate in their courses (Rowland and Et.al., 2018). Academic
integrity delivers so much benefits to the pupils, University and for new ideas. The significance
of academic integrity is discussed below:
For students
Academic Integrity is very significant to the students as it provides best chance of success
by doing given projects with honesty and ethical behaviour. It helps to elude bad consequences
in the university such as failing a project or being asked to leave the academy. As learners in
higher education investing their time and efforts to get a degree in which will be act as a stepping
stone to success in the selected career or field. Whatever a student learn in academy will set the
foundation for the professional practice and knowledge.
For university
It is important for the students and teachers in the academy to behave in an ethical
manner as it impacts how others view the academy. It is also essential for the university to be
trustworthy and consistent in its values and standards for projects so that the public can have a
trust and confidence in the students who graduate with degrees in the academy. This is the reason
why academy takes the problem of academic misconduct very seriously (Schmidt Hanbidge, Tin
and Tsang, 2018). Along with this, when a student graduates with his degree, he will be able to
feel proud of the academic standard that he achieved knowing that his education was based on
the foundation of respect, fairness and truth as well as their degree will be respected.
For new ideas
Academic Integrity consists identification of sources in a accurate way in the project
assigned in the academy which is a significant part for the success and development of new
ideas. Academic sources help students marking the work see where they originate ideas and who
are their influencers. It also demonstrates a path for how new knowledge is produced. It makes

students to learn and give proper credit to those scholars who originally wrote or developed
ideas. When a student learns how to unite ideas and research of others into their assignment and
acknowledge them in an appropriate way, this displays that they have understand the source or
material they have read. It also makes the assessment of a topic or issue clearer.
Academic Misconduct and its implications.
Academic Misconduct can be defined as many activities on the part of pupils that go
against the likely standards or norms of an academy or university or any other learning
institution. Academic misconduct in a broader term is any activity or action which gains or
attempts to gains or supports others in gaining or attempting to gain unfair advantage of
education. It involves fabrication of data, contract cheating, collusion, plagiarism as well as the
possession of unauthorized materials during the assignment (Sun, 2019). It is very essential for
every existing or previous learner of the academy is likely to comprehend and accept behaviour’s
rules which particularly prohibit misconduct in the academy. This misconduct like cheating or
unauthorized collaboration in the academy are the serious issues for teachers, pupils and
academy. This kind of activity also involves loss of future assignments to the academy, fines or
lawsuits. These activities have serious implications, as they not only ruin their reputation of the
educational institution but also result in loss of opportunities for the learners in the future. Also,
it is not worthy for the students because learners who are defended misconduct or involved in the
nullification to validate have more likelihoods to participate in this nature of activities in the
future which offer them a life of duplicity. This will also impact their knowledge which is very
essential to complete their higher education in the university, also this will take away students to
get a better job in the future. In economic terms, this will also affect negatively as it causes lack
of knowledge and ideas as it is the duty of teacher to produce the knowledge to the learners but
which is not accomplished by the learners which disturb the overall economy of a nation.
Academic misconduct and dealing with such kind of activity is one of the most crucial part of
career in any educational institution.
Section 2
Production of game and its steps taken and difficulties handled by an individual.
In the production of game in the academy, there are several steps which have been taken
by the individuals. The game which is designed in this assignment is “Dice and Cards”. The

game is designed with a purpose to ask some questions from the students which have to be
answered by them for which they are given with the options written back on their given cards.
For this purpose, an individual is needed to prepare a questionnaire for the students. This has to
be understand deeply and the questions should be a closed type and does not encompass any
hidden answers so that students can develop new ideas with the help of this game. The individual
is required to prepare questionnaires in which he has to offer four options to the students so that
they can select the suitable responses. This necessitates a good knowledge of academic integrity
and academic misconduct which does not have to be conducted in the academy by the students.
The succeeding important phase is of technicality in which participants are required to arrange a
screen as per the instructions which are offered to them (Tomáš and Veronika, 2018). This needs
a proper understanding of latest technologies as they can create difficulties in the production of
game. It is also essential that the game must be simple and sober but also should be attractive
which demonstrates the creativity of the producer of the game. Overall, it should be prepared in
such a way that is understandable by the students so that University does not have to put extra
efforts to provide proper understanding of the game and avail replies from the educatees.
Skills enhanced or achieved during the production of game.
While producing a game, there are numerous skills that are developed and help the pupils
to realize career goals in their future. Among those some of them are studied and learned in the
academic writing and others are underlining while designing the mentioned game. Some of the
skills learned during the production of game are mentioned below:
Creativity: Undoubtedly, producing a game is a creative process which requires a significant
amount of creativity (Williams, 2018). An individual can improve his creativity skills with the
help of production of game which is also an important part for their academic career and future
life. There are many parts in the game needs a creativity in order to complete in an attractive
way. Overall, it delivers an experience of designing a game and enhance creativity among the
individuals.
Problem solving skills: This is the foundation of any production of the game. This is the key
skill which is required by the individual in order to engage in the production of game. This game
requires critical thinking to solve MCQs in the game. The main purpose of this kind of practices
is to sharpen the decision making and reasoning skills. As the main objective behind the

production of this game is to solving the problem of academic misconduct which includes
cheating, plagiarism and many more in the academy. This skill will also helpful to produce the
game more informative.
Research and development skills: This is one of the major skill in the production of game. This
skill will help an individual to prepare the quiz which requires deep research in order to have an
effective quiz which helps the university to get suitable answers from the students. A resource is
also used in this assignment for the completion which supports an individual to gain different
knowledge and attain research and development skills. It is also very essential and useful for the
growth in their respective career as it makes them to conduct research on each and every aspect
of their life in order to have better decisions.
Presentation skills: This skill is required in the game production as this will work as an actual
attraction in the game. This skill is important for the individual which shows how he
demonstrates the game which will gain students attraction to play (Yusoff, 2019). Presentation
skills can involve how the game will be presented in front of students. Presentation skills can
involve colorful cards in the game, involvement of plus points or negative points in the game.
Analytical skills: Analytical skills are the skills which includes soft skills that helps an
individual to detect and solve difficult problems. This is the skill in the individual that allows the
game to become perfect which signifies that this will actually meet the purpose of the production
of game that is academic misconduct and academic writing. With the help of such skill, an
individual can make questions in the game. It also allows an individual to make an analysis to
make sure that the designed game is well satisfactory to outline and resolve the problem of
cheating or plagiarism in the academy (Zeenath Reza, and Et.al.)
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized from the above is that academic integrity is a vital element which
needs to be tackle with proper care by all the learners in the academy. It is also very important
for the University to take the academic misconduct seriously. With the use of produced game,
there are different quiz which enables University to acknowledge that their pupils know the
importance of academic integrity. Lastly, there are many skills which are established at the time
of designing a game which have been conversed in this report.

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