Academic Integrity and Importance in Higher Education

This report discusses the meaning of academic integrity, its importance in higher education, and the implications of academic misconduct. It also reflects on the skills learned while producing a game for Project 2. The subject is Business Management with Foundation, and the course code is BMP3003 Further Academic Skills.

Business Management with Foundation
BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Contents
Introduction 3
Section 1 3-5
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education 3
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct 4
Section 2 5-6
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2 5
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game 6
Conclusion 7
References 8

Introduction
Individual usually learn and adapt good habits from the early stage and education plays
an important role in it. This helps in enhancing the knowledge of the person with their growth
and betterment. The students can also make their future goals through varies educational sessions
and programs. There can be seen that it is important to have academic skills as there is no growth
or education is completed without it. Academic skills preserve and provides the systematic
methods of learning, reading, writing and many more (Vogt, 2020). In this report, there will be
discussion about the meaning of academic integrity, their misconducts and also all the general
importance of education in context to it.
Section 1
An Introduction on the concept of Academic Integrity
It is the commitment as well as demonstration of honest and moral behavior in an
academic setting. It is the basis that enables exchange of any idea and also requires scholars to
trust the work. Academic integrity can be defined as the ethical policy or the moral code which
deals with fair academic writing and also prevents any cheating and plagiarism so that academic
standards are maintained such as honesty in academic writing or research publishing. There are
different values which forms the part of the academic integrity which includes honesty in work,
fairness, trust, responsibility and the respect (O'Neill, 2020).
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher
education
In all the educational areas the Academic integrity is an important application which
considers to have all the ethical and the moral conducts. It increases the values, standard and the
working of all the institutions. This generally focus on giving an idea of thought, clarity and
transparency in the behavior of students and the teachers (Stowe, 2017). There consist of so
many reasons which provides the importance of academic integrity in all the higher educational
areas they are like:
 Academic integrity focus on managing and giving a balance between all the working
culture between the students and the teachers. It provides a trust and the bond that create
a positive value in the working (Sefcik, Striepe and Yorke, 2019).

 The Academic integrity creates a moral attitude of all the people towards the institution.
This helps in managing the standard in all the institutional areas and helps in reflecting
values.
 This also promotes the major method in which the students can also be protected from all
the misconduct. There is been provided that all the students will be protected from any
kind of misconduct and this will generate a reflective nature and a balance between all
the members and their working (Eaton, 2020).
 It provides appreciation to all the right employees who are working under them. This
means that all those students who are giving their full dedication will get credits for their
work. Academic integrity manages a confidence in all those students and also motivates
them towards proper and ethical working.
Thus, this is an important element as Academic integrity provides a management with
clarity and the transparency in all their working. It motivates the students to work with dignity
and ethical practices. As all those institutions which try to uphold the integrity gets a greater
value among the students and the other people. But as in this time, there has been seen that so
much of misconducts are being made by institutions and they affect the image of the areas and
the individuals (Reedy and et. al., 2020).
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconducts are all such factors which considers the dishonesty and the unfair
means which are being practiced by the company so as to manage and gain unfair advantages
through their educational institution. There is been seen that so many implications are being
taken in order to frame the dishonesty in all institutions (Maloshono and Shmeleva, 2019). Some
of which are like plagiarism, cheating, falsification of data and many more which directly and
indirectly affect the image of the institution and also make the students to lose confidence
towards their educational sector. Every institution and individual carries an important
responsibility in order to manage the work and also to follow integrity, some of the academic
misconducts which can affect and demotivate the students are like:
 Falsification- This is the method in which the students in order to gain some important
information tries to fabricate the data. It is also the records and the data which is been
fabricated by the student so as to mislead the teachers and to gain some important
information (Gaižauskaitė and Tauginiene, 2017).

 Cheating- This involves all the deception done for the projects, assignments, papers in
order to gain more marks or for any other intention. It is generally all the unethical
practices and the immoral work that are being performed by the students.
 Plagiarism- It involves all the work of any other person to be used by the another in
order to make more marks. It is acknowledging all the ideas, work and the words of any
other person to be managed by any other person. This is the unethical practice which ca
affect the mental and the social state of the student (Bylieva and et. al., 2020).
All these academic misconducts will lead to make a great impact on the ethical and the
moral values of the institution. This will make the students to lose their trust from the university.
Academic misconduct majorly affects the reputation and will also lead to frame the dishonesty
and lack of trust among all the future growth of the students (Hongwei and et. al., 2017). It also
creates an adverse impact on all the academic reputation of the company as it tends to analyses
that teachers and also the students will lose confidence from the institution and that will affect
their environment and working.
Section 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game for Project 2
In today’s time, it is essential to provide protection to the academic integrity as education
has taken great level of importance nowadays. It is aimed to protect the goodwill as well as
dignity of academics and academicians. At present, due to academic misconduct, there has been
huge impact on the academics which involves plagiarism especially. So in order to prevent this
and maintain academic integrity in working, an idea popped up in my mind which is aimed to
protect integrity in academics. An idea which is being analyzed by me was to just produce a
game so that the students can learn to prevent academic misconduct. After making analysis of the
idea, I made a decision to produce a game that can prevent or avoid plagiarism from academics.
From my perspective, the idea which came into my mind is best to spread the awareness among
students about how bad influence of misconduct can harm the academic writing and it also assist
in being aware of the importance of the academic integrity.
After scrutinizing my ideas, I decided to choose the best out of all, so from all my ideas, I
decided to go on with an idea which as to produce the game. Tone difficulty which I faced
during this step was to finalize the game as I have two- three options in my mind and out of all, I

decided to go on with the game, namely, QUIZ. After making decision on game, I started to
gather information on the benefits of academic integrity so that the students can learn its
importance by way of fun game. This game is aimed to assess knowledge of player in relation to
plagiarism as well as academic misconduct and also restrict the students from adopting any kind
of unethical practices or means during their academic time. Then after assessing information on
importance of academic integrity, I game across to design the game so I decided to give my
game some online touch wherein the students were required to log in into the portal in order to
answer the questions which relates to academic integrity. Likewise, from these steps, the game
was designed effectively.
While producing game, there were many difficulties which were faced by me which
included the following-
 The biggest challenge while producing game was to prepare the outline of the design of
game as I wanted something which can attract the users and describe whole concept
effectively to make students understand its importance.
 The next challenge was to produce the pool of questions as it is the foundation of whole
game. So this is the most difficult task. I prepared questions in huge numbers and
choosing the best out of all was the difficult task.
 Another difficulty was relating to assembling the game as it is must be done in such a
way that the importance of the academic integrity is reflected in the game. The structure
of the game must be such which conveys the message of prevention of the plagiarism
from academic writing and upholding integrity in it.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those
emphasized in producing your game
There are different set of skills which has been used as well as learned while producing
this game which included the following-
 Creativity skill: This skill has helped me making the game more attractive as I used this
skill while sketching the idea and designing the graphics of the game. This skill has been
enhanced while producing this game as I have broadened and widen my scope in order to
make effective game.
 Computer skill: This is such a skill which I lacked the most but while producing this
game, I came across an opportunity to develop and learn it as I used this ability to design
graphics as well as preparing the whole lot of game.

 Academic knowledge: This has been enhanced by me while learning the importance of
academic integrity as it is essential to have academic knowledge of the concept on which
the whole game is based on.
 Organizing and designing skills: It is the most essential skill which has been learned by
me and was the most important one as it helped me in assembling my ideas, questions as
well as designing of the game. This skill has also helped me in preparing the steps which
are being taken to play the game. Designing has played an important role during the
production of game as I learnt to make its graphics attractive.
 Research skills: It is a foremost skill which has helped me making the foundation of the
game. I learnt this skill as it was used while gathering information on importance of
academic integrity as well as while preparing question. Hence, this whole game involved
research skill.
Conclusion
It is concluded from the above report that, academic integrity helps to manage the ethical
and the moral standard of the institutions and also built trust and motivation in the students.
Their main aim is to manage student with proper transparency, trust and also with equality. The
teachers and the students should focus on applying academic integrity in their behavior.
Academic misconduct is the misleading practices which are made by the students in order to gain
more marks that can be done through cheating, plagiarism and many more. Furthermore, it can
also be seen that the plagiarism can be removed from certain games so as to make the work and
the general methods easy.

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