Academic Integrity: Importance, Description, and Misconduct Implications

This report covers the importance of academic integrity, its description, and implications of misconduct. It also reflects on the steps taken and difficulties faced while producing a game for academic integrity improvement. The report concludes with the skills learned by an individual in this academic year and their importance in producing the game.

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................................3
Description of Academic Integrity................................................................................4
Explanation of importance of academic integrity......................................................4
Description of academic misconduct implications....................................................7
Reflection over steps taken, and difficulties faced for producing the game for
Assignment 2..................................................................................................................8
Reflection over skills learned by individual in this academic year and to
emphasized in producing game...................................................................................9
CONCLUSION.......................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES.......................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
In academic life of a student, academic integrity considered as an important
perspective which has been used in order to develop various aspects related to
performance of students within academic life (Ahmed, 2020) This is based over
making skills and knowledge developed in relation over topics that enhances
students mental capability to understand tings more effectively. Scope of academic
integrity is wider in relation upon learning about elements related to education.
Nature is dynamic which makes students achieve its goals and objectives by keeping
in mind professional and personal development. The report covers about academic
integrity and its importance with an game. Also skills has been explained regrading
academic integrity improvement.

PART 1
Description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity can be defined as exceptions that is based over teachers,
students, researchers and all members related to educational perspective. As per
the concept various kinds of aspects based upon honesty, trust, fairness, respect
and responsibility has been covered. Breaching of academic integrity is based upon
academic misconducts and academic dishonesty. Academic integrity is based upon
acting in an way making honest, fair, respectful and responsibility over studies and
academic work. The concept of academic integrity helping in applying values over
own work which makes academic integrity developed more effectively. This makes
values excepted over staff and students. Academic integrity relates over setting
various kinds of goals and objectives which is used for making right decision on time.
It makes actions and interest of students providing ethical knowledge to students
leads over encouraging students to cover all aspects related to integrity (Chankova,
2020) Academic integrity leads upon enhancing students in relation over skills and
development of academic path with positive approach.
Explanation of importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity is one of term which allow college students as well as
personnel the freedom in order to develop innovation, new ideas, expertise by
respecting as well as acknowledging other whose original work they are using.
Educational institution and The University cannot tolerate academic misconduct as it
can harm their image and also reply against these misconduct in fair manner. The
major Standard involved with educational integrity are mentioned in Part A, Section
5.2 of the HES Framework on topic of Academic and Research Integrity. This units
mainly four among wide necessities to provider; in summary: to have regulations
over sell as well as uphold of educational and others studies integrity. It also consists
regulations and methods which helps to cope up with problem of misconduct to do
so for mitigate foreseeable dangers to educational and studies integrity. In order to
protect students from educational or academic misconduct, it is important for an

educational institute to maintain academic integrity in their organization. This
academic integrity is based on different values.
Academic integrity is emphasizing on being ethically as well as morally
upstanding with Academics and studies. Instruction are also given by different
educational institution for purpose of energize decency. Ethical behavior also
thinking about to provide assistance to people with growing and achieve the goals
they merit. It recollects legal responsibility and integrity for Academics via way of
means of maintaining from demonstrations of Academic unlucky behavior like
cheating, making use of unapproved substances at some stage in exams and ill-
recommended coordinated attempt with specific understudies on a given mission or
undertaking. Academic unlucky behavior moreover takes place whilst one someone
duplicates paintings at the net and provides it as their own (Cronan, Mullins, and
Douglas, 2018). It contains giving a mission two times for remotes courses,
producing, production or converting files to get Academic gain or assisting others
with inside the offense. Scary or trying to repay someone to preserve them for
purpose of detaining them from unethical behavior and abuses the code of
respectability.
There are basically six primary ideals of Academic integrity which includes
trust, boldness, decency, genuineness, regard, responsibility. Deceptive
understudies about a topic deceiving the teacher to attain passing marks and they
don’t get merit, and they're likewise deceptive themselves. They are also focusing on
distorting competencies, knowledge as well as information.
 Cheating is considered as academic misconduct because it indicates that a
person isn’t equipped to address the workspace.
 Deceptive understudies in people can leads them to cheat to other people as
they are not strongly connected with social as well as personal lives even
after college because they're now no longer used to tough paintings.
 Another really well worth is the responsibility, whilst an man or woman holds
the name of a specialist, criminal counselor, or clothier they're taken into
consideration chargeable for their capability to carry out interior their calling.
Through academic integrity all kinds of aspects has been covered which makes
students learn basic lessons related to academics and knowledge is attained with
command upon there course work.

Description of academic misconduct implications
Academic misconduct refers to motion or tried motion that could bring about
developing an unfair educational benefit for oneself or an unfair educational benefit
or drawback for some other member or contributors of the instructional community.
This consists of a huge form of behaviors along with cheating, plagiarism, changing
educational files or transcripts, getting access to substances earlier than they're
supposed to be available, and supporting a chum to benefit an unfair educational
benefit (Eaton, 2021). Individual departments on the University of California,
Berkeley, might also additionally have differing expectancy for college students, so
college students are liable for looking for records whilst uncertain of what's expected.
Below are a few fundamental definitions and examples of educational misconduct.
Below are kinds of educational misconduct with examples of each. Please word that
this listing isn't always exhaustive.
 Cheating- Cheating is described as fraud, deceit, or dishonesty in an
educational task, or the use of or trying to use substances, or helping others
in the use of substances which might be prohibited or irrelevant with inside the
context of the instructional task in question.
 Copying or trying to reproduction from others at some point of an examination
or on an task. Communicating solutions with some other individual at some
point of an examination. The academic misconduct impacts the academic
integrity of students as it leads over creating ethical issues for students which
makes student face trouble during academic sessions (Garza Mitchell, and
Parnther, 2018). In order to remove academic misconduct students must
focus upon various aspects related to performing academic task which makes
stability created within work of students.

PART 2
Reflection over steps taken, and difficulties faced for producing the game for
Assignment 2
I consider that in order to complete a task in a successful manner in the
academic life which is essential for an individual to take assistance of professional
approaches. In order to complete project related to my academics, I focused on
preparing a game named Plagiarism Master. I have analyzed that there was a strong
need to design a game which includes key focus on identifying plagiarism in the
assignments. I took the following steps to design the game:
 Team development- Team development was very essential for me in order to
increase the chances of managing my subordinate team members. The team
management skills can be obtained by development of key and systematic
operations with help and support of leadership.
 Gaining knowledge related to IT- In producing the game, I felt that
knowledge of information and technology is must. I discovered many ways of
improving my IT knowledge in order to perform key operations related to
producing the game (Kaktiņš, 2019). IT skills in me were developed by IT
department of my academic institution and I am very thankful to them.
 Skill development- The development of skills is most important for me in
order to increase various competencies. Skill development also includes focus
on major skills like leadership, time management, decision making and
problem solving. These skills were formulated and developed by me by taking
support and assistance of my professors.
The major difficulties which I encountered during producing the game
While producing the game, I faced so many difficulties which created hurdles
and obstacles for me. The difficulties were essential to be handled with key
supervision and control in order to lead the competition. Main difficulties which I have
faced while working on producing the game are mentioned below:
 Complexity in management- I encountered problems and complexity in
managing my team members. The management of team is a complex task, I
got to know this while managing large number of people. It is my ethical

responsibility to simplify team management by adopting key tools and
techniques which are universally accepted. The main task of mine was to
develop coordination between team members and it created a major
challenge for me (Lindstrom, 2022). I will focus on analyzing scope of team
members in order to manage them with all responsibility based operations.
 Perception of team members- It was necessary for me to identify perception
of team members to understand their perspectives. It is crucial for a team
leader to focus on analyzing perception of team members in order to serve
them in an effective members. The main responsibility of mine is to create
understanding in whole team to facilitate main tasks and functions. In future I
will practice various leadership styles in order to understand wants and needs
of major employees.
Reflection over skills learned by individual in this academic year and to emphasized
in producing game
The skills are most important part of personality for a candidate which helps in
increasing chances of growth. During this academic year and designing the game, I
have developed following key skills:
 Time management- The time management skills are most crucial to be
learned by a candidate in order to increase the chances of systematic growth.
I have learned how to manage time and key aspects related to academic life
by formulating the time table.
 Critical thinking- I also increased my critical thinking skills while producing
the game which helped me a lot to find out key solutions for major problems. I
am taking assistance of these skills in order to develop focused approach in
managing most of the situations (Ransome, and Newton, 2018). My critical
thinking skills are now so strong that I can face any situation in personal and
professional life.
 Leadership- The leadership skills are most important for an individual in order
to manage team members. It was very much essential for me to develop
leadership skills to lead the team members (Sefcik, Striepe, and Yorke, 2019).
I applied democratic leadership style in order to facilitate key functions related
to leadership.

 Problem solving- The problem solving skills are most important for an
individual to be developed in order to manage and handle the problems
(Tatum, 2022). I developed my problem solving skills to gain effectiveness
and efficiency in managing all the team members in a precise and systematic
manner.

CONCLUSION
From the above analysis it can be concluded that academic integrity is one of
the most crucial approaches which helps an individual to gain competitive growth.
The application of academic integrity in a systematic manner helps and supports a
candidate to overcome major consequences and challenges in academic life. This
project concludes key role played by a professors and teachers to support academic
integrity based practices. This project concludes key importance of planning and
strategic frameworks in order to support overall development. The report concludes
significance of skills and competencies in order to increase the chances of
systematic development.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
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Chankova, M., 2020. Teaching academic integrity: The missing link. Journal of Academic
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Cronan, T.P., Mullins, J.K. and Douglas, D.E., 2018. Further understanding factors that
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Garza Mitchell, R.L. and Parnther, C., 2018. The Shared Responsibility for Academic Integrity
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Ransome, J. and Newton, P.M., 2018. Are we educating educators about academic integrity?
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Tatum, H.E., 2022. Honor codes and academic integrity: Three decades of research. Journal
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