Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This report discusses the concept of academic integrity and its importance for students and universities. It covers the implications of academic misconduct and reflects on the skills learned during the process of developing a game. The report emphasizes the importance of academic integrity in higher education and the benefits it provides to students and universities.

Academic integrity

Contents
Contents...........................................................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................1
Section 1..........................................................................................................................................1
Description of academic integrity................................................................................................1
Discussion of importance of academic integrity in higher education..........................................2
Discussion of implication of academic misconduct....................................................................3
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................4
Reflection on steps and difficulties encountered for producing game........................................4
Reflection on the skills learned this academic year.....................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Students is expected to maintain academic integrity which completing their education as it
provide them various opportunity (Sefcik, Striepe and Yorke, 2019). It is important for them as it
allow them to develop necessary skills and also to get good career opportunity in future period of
time. This project report includes concept of academic integrity and its important for students,
university. It also includes implication of academic miscount. Moreover, it consists reflection for
different types of problem faced by a person and skills developed by them.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
Description of academic integrity
The term academic integrity is defined as the ethical practices and approaches that are expected
from the students, teachers as well as other staff members to follow in their academic work.
Academic integrity includes various principle such as respect, fairness, honesty, responsibility
and trust that guide students to perform academic work with great efficiency and effectiveness.
Students should respect others work and complete their assignment and other work with honesty
and dignity that improve their overall performance and help to attain higher grades in higher
education. Through implementing the academic integrity in their work, students can improve
their learning and moral value (Knudson and Bopp, 2021). Along with that it also helps students to
prevent from any unethical or unfair activities such as plagiarism, cheating as well as other mis
conducts. The concept of academic integrity facilitates to maintain higher academic standard in
their work. In current scenario, universities also motivate and inspire students to perform their
academic work which fairness and honesty. Academic misconduct or dishonesty is also another
concept that is related to breaking regulations of academic integrity and perform unfair activities
like plagiarism, cheating others work. Universities develop various regulations as well as take
strict actions against the students who are involved in the unethical and unfair activities. Students
need to become responsible for their work, respect others and obey all regulations that are
introduced by the university in order to complete their higher education in efficient manner.
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Discussion of importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity is very important role in higher education as university is responsible for
various things such as enhance knowledge and understanding of students, provide them quality
of education, motivate them to perform academic work with honesty and take actions against the
students who found involved in the activities of academic misconduct (Chankova, 2020).
Academic integrity helps university by managing activities of teacher, students and improve their
learning. as university involved in various activities like developing, sharing and proving
learning and knowledge to students that help them to attain their academic or professional goals
and objectives with efficiency. Some importance of academic integrity is mentioned below:
 Improve teaching skills: The concept of academic integrity enables teachers of
university to enhance their teaching skills and abilities that enable them to provide better
and efficient learning to students that lead students towards attaining their determined
career goals. Academic integrity is important for teaches at the time of examining
students’ performance like teachers should provide fair grades to students as per their
performance level.
 Allow university to develop values among students: Academic integrity is important
for university to provide better learning and values to students that help them to perform
work with honesty, fairness and take responsibility of that as well. These values of
academic integrity help students to enhance their overall performance in higher
education.
 Improve capability of students: Implementation of academic integrity improve skills,
capabilities and competencies of students that enable them to conduct their present as
well as future task with great efficient and effectiveness.
 Provide future opportunity to students: Maintaining academic integrity in academic
life of s students provide them opportunity to clear their image among members of
university. It also allows student to complete their work with honesty and allow them to
develop various skills and capability (Tatum, 2022). It is important students as it makes
them skilled and efficient that provide them future opportunity, Employers at time of
hiring ensure that they will have honest and hardworking employees. Following academic
integrity allow students to create good impression of employee and allow them to grab
the opportunity.
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Discussion of implication of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct can be described as cheating can be committed in context of academic
work. Universities and educational institution consider this academic misconduct very seriously
in order to improve their efficiency. It is an attempt or gain for academic advantage in a
university for assessment (Ahmed, 2020). It is essential for a student to maintain academic
integrity for completing their assignment, conducting research and for other work. Academic
misconduct is a use of unauthorised material as well as device during examination that consist
communication device or recording. There are different types of academic misconduct including
plagiarism, contract cheating, collusion, fabrication or misrepresentation and others.
Cheating: It includes fraud, deceit and dishonesty in completion of academic assignment. It is a
process in which a person is making attempt to use material or devices which are restricted by
university. For instance, making attempt to copy or copying someone’s work during examination
or communicating with other person for during exams.
Plagiarism: It is an academic misconduct in which a person is using intellectual material of
another person without acknowledging them. It consists use of opinions, insights and views of
other person like literary, phraseology without proper acknowledging them.
Couse material: Using of library material provide opportunity to students to access to wide
material of education but removing, keeping it deliberately or defacing it is considered as
academic misconduct (White, 2020). There are some case where publishing, distribution, selling
and positioning of notes of lecture, recoding and information of instructor are sold in market for
commercial purpose without prior permission of instructor. It is an academic misconduct that
make a person legal liable for such case.
False information, fabrication and alteration of information: It is an academic misconduct in
which a person is fails to prove themselves honest in academic obligation. False information in
academic assignment is not good for students and can also be considered as academic
misconduct.
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Section 2
Reflection on steps and difficulties encountered for producing game
There are different types of steps require for a person in order to design a game. It is essential for
a successful project to be unique and distinct from others. For this purpose, different types of
steps to be taken by me that allow me to develop a game which are mentioned below:
 In order to develop game, I need to conduct concept development that is essential as it
provide me direction about thing and steps to be taken (Hung, Yang and Tsai, 2020). By
this, I was able to analyse direction required for development of game.
 After this, I collect information for development of game and search for method for
development of game. For this, I ask for suggestion from my team members, friends and
family as well as professor.
 With analysation of methods and information, I started to work on process of game
design. It is a step, in which actual work take place as I prepare question which is to be
written on cards used for playing game among teams.
 Next stage is related to refining of problem in which problem and difficulties are
identified in game and solve it for purpose of improving efficiency of game.
 Next step is related to testing in which trial round of game is conducted among team. It is
important in order to identify problem related to game and also it provides me
opportunity to make correction in game (Wee and Choong, 2019). There is no problem
identified in this round and I approve game for final play. It is a last step as after that
game is presented by me to teacher.
Problem faced by me during process of developing game:
There are different types of problem are identified by me in order to complete the game. These
problems are related to lack of time, problem in handling team, conflicts and others. Explanation
of these problem in context of company is mentioned below:
 Lack of time: There is lack of time available for me for completing this project as there
are some other assignments are also pending. Along with completion of this assignment, I
also need to take classes, needs to saves time for my self-study and personal life. It
creates problem for me in order to develop the game.
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 Conflicts: It is another situation which can be occur among team members due to lack of
communication. It is important for a team to ensure free flow of communication in order
to get success for completion of work.
Reflection on the skills learned this academic year
There are different types of skills can be developed by me during development of this game. In
order to design a person, I need to search for a creative idea, also there are lots of efforts and
steps taken by me in order to complete the game which will helps students for avoiding
plagiarism in their content. Different types of skills developed by me includes communication
skills, problem solving skills, presentation skills and creativity skills, Explanation of these skills
developed by me are mentioned below:
Communication skills: It is a skill which allow me to share my ideas and thought to others. It
allows me to communicate with different team member about project. It is an essential skill in
process of game designing as it allows me to write instructions of game for user and also helps
me to make them understand about how to play game. On basis of this skills, tea members can
communicate with each other that is important in order to avoid conflicts.
Presentation skills: It is a skill that allow a person to present their ideas and other things
through power point presentation. It is a skill in which a person needs to explain about ideas they
are presenting through power point (Lin and Magnuson, 2018). It is another important skill that
allow me to present my ideas about game design to teach and also helps me to get good grades.
Creativity skills: It is another important skill that is developed by me with this process. It allows
a person to develop different idea and allow them to complete a work in unique manner. It is
essential in designing game as on basis of this, I was able to develop different idea for
developing unique idea.
Team working: For this project, I need to work with my team members that provide me
opportunity to develop team working skills. It is an essential skill that allow me to cooperate
with members who has different skills and capability. While working on project of game
designing, I have work with members who has diverse skills and capability. For completing of
project in good manner, I need to cooperate with them that provide me opportunity for get good
grades.
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CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that importance of academic integrity
is more for a student as it allows them to complete their education with honesty. It also allows
them to develop various important academic skills and develop moral values for a student that
make them responsible in future. Academic integrity does not only provide benefits to students
but also for university as it creates good impact over their image. It is essential for university to
avoid academic misconduct among them as it can create negative impact over their image. There
are various types of game can be developed for purpose of maintaining academic integrity.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Ahmed, K., 2020. Academic integrity: Challenges and strategies for Asia and the Middle
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Chankova, M., 2020. Teaching academic integrity: The missing link. Journal of Academic
Ethics, 18(2), pp.155-173.
Hung, H.T., Yang, J.C. and Tsai, Y.C., 2020. Student Game Design as a Literacy
Practice. Journal of Educational Technology & Society, 23(1), pp.50-63.
Knudson, D. and Bopp, M., 2021. Measuring learning and promoting academic integrity in
online instruction. Kinesiology Review, 10(4), pp.436-442.
Lin, Y.C. and Magnuson, K.A., 2018. Classroom quality and children’s academic skills in child
care centers: Understanding the role of teacher qualifications. Early Childhood
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Sefcik, L., Striepe, M. and Yorke, J., 2019. Mapping the landscape of academic integrity
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Tatum, H.E., 2022. Honor codes and academic integrity: Three decades of research. Journal of
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Wee, S.C. and Choong, W.W., 2019. Gamification: Predicting the effectiveness of variety game
design elements to intrinsically motivate users' energy conservation behaviour. Journal
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White, A., 2020. May you live in interesting times: a reflection on academic integrity and
accounting assessment during COVID19 and online learning. Accounting Research
Journal.
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