Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

Academic Integrity

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity .................................................1
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education.................................2
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct ......................................................................3
SECTION 2 .....................................................................................................................................5
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................5
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. ...................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is a thing that adds value and morale in behaviour such as fairness,
responsibility and honesty towards work as well as in lifestyle. It involves achieving an objective
in an honest and responsible manner in your work especially in a students area of interest like
work and projects of college, university, schools. Knowledge of academic integrity helps
students to come through in their studies, give right to express their own ideas and help in
developing beneficial s on how to acknowledge and avoid academic misconduct. From this
report importance of understanding academic misconduct in process to avoid it is explained and
its forms of misconduct such as plagiarism, cheating, exam conduct and others are also covered.
Following with implications of academic misconduct in academic integrity. Further in this report
a game is developed and its uses in student for learning and what skills it will cover to design the
game is briefly explained.
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is a moralistic policy that is followed by an academic institution and
it is bound to follow for an ethical practice for the institution. Integrity refers to the value that
shows everything that a student do in a university studies (Morris, 2018). The purpose of the
academic integrity is to in academic study for both students as well as teachers it is not just to
introduce and build and provide new knowledge but also to maximise its accuracy and fairness in
the institution community (Gamage, Silva, and Gunawardhana, 2020). In order to achieve an
individual must need to understand and develop with practice particular academic skills which
are correct referencing of knowledge as by this acknowledging the source it taken and providing
recognition creates a morale practice that it has not been cheated nor the practice of plagiarism
has been conducted, good academic writing as without plagiarism and copying of work it is
possible to prepare a good academic writing it requires knowledge and using own thinking by
not using any source of misconduct that violates academic integrity, independent thinking and
active reading practice gives extent to knowledge which reduce the chances of plagiarism and
misconduct as and knowledgable person will never depend on other source of information other
than his or her individual knowledge through active gaining information by reading practices