Academic Integrity: Importance, Implications of Misconduct, and Reflection on Game Development

This report explains the importance of academic integrity in higher education, its values, and implications of academic misconduct. It also reflects on the difficulties encountered in producing a game and the skills learned during the academic year. The report includes references to studies on academic integrity.

ACADEMIC
INTEGRITY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ...............................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY.......................................................................................................................................3
SECTION -1......................................................................................................................3
Importance of academic integrity in higher education-..............................................................4
The implications of academic misconduct .................................................................................4
SECTION-2................................................................................................................................5
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game5
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game..........................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES.....................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is a fundamental writing of teacher on their students so that they work
ethically and virtuously. The student show respect to people and perform their work with full
responsibility and must honest towards their work. Academic integrity includes introducing the
goals it includes, student work hard to achieve their goals in the file of academics such as projects
and duties of colleges as well as schools. After getting the knowledge of integrity the student can
express their ideas and view. It helps student in avoiding misconduct in the academic and how to
acknowledge(Bjelobaba, 2021). This report explains about the brief describing of Academic
integrity, importance of it in higher educations and discussion on implications of misconducts.
MAIN BODY
SECTION -1
Academic integrity is ethical policy which is precede by the universities so that the people
will follow ethical and moral terms in institutions. Its importance is to protect the standards of the
students achievements and its grant. And it also protect the interest of the scholars who follow the
ethical path without any cheating in the academics. Given below are the five fundamental values of
the academic integrity.
 Honesty- the student must be honest to its idea from where it comes and how result were
obtains.
 Fairness- the student don't cheat on others and they are not allowed to take advantage of
others.
 Trust- the student have to maintain trust on other works as well as follow those practices
where people can trust their works and values.
 Responsibilities- student have to learn and understand the academic values from their own
without the cheating. It act as a responsibility of the students.
 Respect- respect others is the main aspects in the life of students. Student must respect other

students and the people working around them.
Importance of academic integrity in higher education-
A student who perform there work honestly and trustfully can be considered as student has
integrity. The students personal values and ethics tells about their character and their believability.
During the academic time , the students earn degree of knowledge that shows the fair academic
achievement of the students this possible when maintaining academic integrity in the institutions.
The students keeps on studying many hours without any cheating with full hard work to earn the
degree from the university shows the integrity. The importance of academic integrity in higher
education is the student shows his full efforts in there studies as well as other academic activities
with honesty without any enrolment of cheating. The students who are dishonest, cheat, or involve
in the practices of crimes comes in the categories of academic dishonest practices. It gives freedom
to the students as well as staff of the university in the development of new ideas, building
knowledge and work of creativity and showing respect and acknowledge the work of others. The
integrity of the student show and work in helping with their level value in a genuine way. If a
student misconduct and cheat in the academics it creates a negative impact on the other students and
also reduces the reputation of the institutions. The one of the main importance of academic integrity
to teaching and learning. Plagiarism, contracts cheating, and many more are the shortcut solutions
that reduces the learning ability of the students(Albrecht and Clark, 2021). So the academic
integrity supports the learning opportunity of students and teacher as well. Due to the misconduct,
academic dishonesty and multiple research endeavours in the workplace creates dishonesty in the
workplace. It act as an indicator of future geographic area behaviour.
The implications of academic misconduct
Academic Dishonesty or the academic misconduct are the activities undertaken by the
students in order to cheat in the examination or to copy the work of others. The students goes
against the values, ethics, morals and norms of the school, university or other institutions. The
following are the consequences of the academic dishonesty:
 Social consequences- cheating concern the moral consequences in societal that includes the
habit of cheating which trim the integrity and fairness. Through cheating, the knowledge of
the student doest get improved, it will reduce by time and the person will dependent on the
others. The cheating habit not only effect the education and academics but also its impact
harm the workplace, life of the family and other part of life. Cheating can also creates the
disputes between the peoples are close to each other(Slade, 2021).

 Inaccurate assessment- The teacher unable to determine the real worth of the student when
student cheats in the examination or in the academics. It is not right that the student cheat in
the examination and take his duties very lightly.
 Legal consequences- If an student tare, use plagiarism, use copied or fictional data in
projects of institutions and instructors realizes, this can result in formal actions from the
university. These actions are fines, loss of future education projects, rejection, termination.
This not only destroy reputation of student as well the institution but also make the loss of
getting opportunities.
Implications of academic misconducts are given as-
 plagiarism- plagiarism is an activity of academic dishonesty in which the person copying
the work of others or using the work of third party for our benefits. The reason behind
choosing this misconduct activities by some person are due to lack of knowledge, time
management and many more(Sopcak and Hood, 2022).
 Cheating- cheating is a dishonest and misconducting activity that involves unfair practices
by the people. Copying of other work and information are includes in the cheating activities.
It does not gives temporary success to person but not permanent success to the person.
 Professional misconduct- it involves the misconduct activities on the higher levels.
Fictional research is not honest behaviour which involves adding or removing data and
information that creates the negative impact(Linden and Gonzalez, 2021).
SECTION-2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in
producing the game
During the making of the game, different steps has been taken to complete the game and
different difficulties faced by me and the teammates in managing and making the game. There are
given some difficulties as well as different steps are taken in the development of the game . The first
step is team creation- a good team plays an important role not only in the development of the game
but also in other works. A good team motivates the other teammates to perform there task
thoroughly. Creating team of skilled people was one of starting difficulty in the making of the game.
my team comes together to understand the purpose as well as all the aspects like what is required in
the game, designing, implementing and many more. A good teammates are full of skills and
knowledge. The team required in development of the game is full of knowledge as well as skills.
Then the whole team is divided into the different small teams so that the different team work on
different objectives in order to make a fabulous game. The small teams are assigned to perform

different task like designing, coding, presenting and other things about the game. I was the leader of
designing team. The instruction was given to the mathematical skill team by the creative and
designing team to add some features that make the game to look aesthetic. Another main difficulty
was faced in making the game was time management . Time management is one of the main aspect
in making the game. Without the time management the game cannot be completed. All the
teammates spends more than 8 hours in the development of the game without any waste of time.
quality of game was the main focus of our team. the better is the quality of the game the more
people attracts towards it and interaction through the game is more effective. so we design some
different types of graphics so that the game look more attractive and everyone should accept the
game. our team knows that After that, coding is the main step in making the game. Coding helps in
putting the graphics, stru8cture, music, image in the game. There are different types of coding
languages used in the development of the game like python, c++,Java and many more. We have to
assure the team has knowledge of academic integrity so that while scheming the game no disorder
has to be rise to the squad and the subject should be indicate decently in the game. After the coding
step the last step and the last difficulty faced by our team is the promotion. In the end, the game was
successfully prepared with the help of teammates and tested properly with the group of peoples and
some students to ensure that the game is running properly.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in
producing your game.
 Time management skills- the first skill that I have learned from making the game is the
basic time management skills. The time management is the process of planning different
types of work on time. The time management skill helps me in completing the game on
time.
 Programming language skills- during the development of the game different types of
skills has been learned by me in which programming level was on the top This skill helps
me in designing the overall game . It helps me in adding graphics, images, text and audio in
the game.
 Creativity skills- this skill I learned from my teammates during the making of game. how
my teammate think differently while designing the game. A game developer always have an
imagination and creative mindset(Saleem, 2021). Creativity in the game helps in attracting
the users who play these games.
 Patience and perseverance- when I and my team was developing the game there were
many conflicts creates between the teammates and sponsors and designing team. I develop
the continuous patience while designing the game as it is essential for the quality of the
game.

CONCLUSION
From the above text , it has been concluded that academic integrity is a moral policies of the
academics that stops the student who perform dishonesty and misconduct. It has been concluded
that the academic integrity has five pillars respectively known as responsibility, Honesty, Fairness,
Trust and Respect. It also been conclude that academic integrity plays an important role in the
higher educations that helps the student in performing there task and work with full honesty and fair
in its higher educations. The file also conclude about the consequences of academic misconduct like
social consequences, inaccurate assessment and legal consequences and implication of academic
misconducts. In the second section it has been concluded that there are different difficulties that are
faced during the development of the game by the teammates like time management, team creation,
etc. it ha also concluded that different types of skills are learned by after the development of the
game.

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Bjelobaba, S., 2021. Deterring Cheating Using a Complex Assessment Design. Canadian
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