Academic Integrity

This report discusses academic integrity, its importance in higher education, and the implications of academic misconduct. It also reflects on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing a game for Assignment 2 and the skills learned in the process, including communication, creativity, time management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................3
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity.................................................3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education................................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct......................................................................5
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Assignment 2...............................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game....................................................................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity refers to the ethical values of an academy and university as the expectations
that students, teachers and all the persons of the academy act with fairness, trust, honesty
responsibility and respect. Through academic integrity every student and staff member have
freedom to develop creative ideas, innovative works and knowledge while regarding the work of
other persons (Ives and Kier, 2021). It means using these norms into practise by being fair and
honest to university and their members and take responsibility for using and conducting
appropriate information’s. For avoiding academic misconduct such as dishonest behaviour and
falsification it is necessary to promote and support academic integrity. This report is all about the
academic integrity, importance of academic integrity and implications of academic misconduct
further it reflect the steps, difficulties and skills which learned in producing the game foe
assignment.
SECTION 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity means taking ethical and right decisions, follow instructions properly and
asking questions related to work. It refers to the moral policy of an academy and university that
people are completely fair and honest with their work and did not cheat and copy with the work
of others. It means using these norms into practise by being fair and honest to university and
their members and take responsibility for using and conducting appropriate informations.
Through academic integrity every student and staff member have freedom to develop creative
ideas, innovative works and knowledge while regarding the work of other persons (Çelik and
Lancaster, 2021). Academic integrity is referring to the commitment to five fundamental beliefs
such as fairness, honesty, respect, trust and responsibility.
 Honesty: Honesty is the base of learning, teaching, service and research it is essential
that every student work with honesty and submit their work and practise according with
syllabus and institution norms. It also required to institution and their faculty to be honest
with each other and students.
 Trust: Trust refers to the faith on words and actions of the people which built over time
with experience. Students develop trust by doing their work which is genuine and honest

and faculty develop trust by clearly communicate the guidelines of assignments and
assigning work to student with timely and equitable manner.
 Fairness: It is essential to evaluate accuracy and fairness in the education process. Every
person should think that they will be judged and treated fairly by the others. It involves
transparency, clarity, impartiality and predictability. For student’s act with fairness means
do their own work properly, correctly acknowledge the work of other students and
maintain and respect academic policies (Griffith, 2021). Also faculty members have to
fair with students and organizations when they clearly communicate and consistently
respond to dishonesty.
 Respect: Respect refers to the feel and show honour for someone and it is reciprocal.
Students give respect to teacher and other by listening their point of view, attending class
on time and do their best in class. Also faculty give respect to students and other faculty
members by listening their ideas and acknowledging their efforts.
 Responsibility: It means accountable for their behaviour and actions and also take stand
against misconduct and wrongdoing of others. Responsible students are those who follow
instructions and speak out if they feel discomfort and responsible faculty are those who
clearly communicate their courses and policies and take strict against misconducts f
others.
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity plays an important role in the life of students and teachers such as students
learn and develop their skills in the school which help them to build their career and make their
life easier. If students did not perform well and do cheating in their exams, then they are not
learning and put their career in danger. In the academy, students learn and develop their basic
skills and also build the base of their future from which they lead toward their goal it is essential
for every student to learn academic integrity at their schooling time (Nurunnabi and Hossain,
2019). This is the last stage where they can learn ethical behaviour and moral values then after it
they are going to start their professional life where in case they behave unethically and do any
kind of misconduct then they will lose their job. After learning academic integrity students will
become self-dependent and make their own project and assignments with more accuracy and
honesty it helps them to avoid academic misconduct and unethical behaviour like cheating in

exams, copying someone's assignment, do not attend class on time and many others. Hence,
academic integrity will help a student to learn those skills and moral value which will help them
to develop social connections and professional career well.
Secondly, academic integrity at school and university will further help the university and their
staff members to build their reputation in society because they play an important role in teaching
what kind of practices and behaviour a student have to conduct at school, college and in their life
to gain success and reputation in society. After passing out from the school and university a
student represents their experience through their knowledge, actions and words in further life
which shows what they learned in their school and college life. The way staff and students work,
behave and study at school affects how other person see the school and university so, the school
and university have to be trustworthy, fair and consistent in its standards for syllabus,
assessments and courses and take the problem of academic misconduct very severely it will help
them to gain confidence and trust of community and society which will increases admissions and
goodwill. Also, teachers must be honest and fair with students and toward their work to set the
good example and foundation for student’s career as well as it helps them to build reputation of
themselves in university and society.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct refers to dishonesty, fraud, cheating and plagiarism attempt by students
and staff members which is against the norms and rules of a university, school or other
institutions. These are those practises which show negative impact upon students and university
reputations such as coping someone's project, cheating in exams by using written cheats or
electronic device, providing wrong information, failure to meet and follow ethical, legal and
professional protocol of academy, not attending classes on time and theft like, taking books from
library, work of other students and other academic substantial without permission (Butterworth,
2021). For faculty and staff members academic misconduct means licking exams papers and
various important information of academy for money, allowing and helping to students for
cheating by providing them various materials in examinations for their personal benefits and
behaving rude and unethically with students and other staff members.
There are many reasons for these academic misconduct such as anxiety for performance as many
students cheat in exams to avoid obtaining bad grades or failing in exams, many have mental or
peer pressure like involving in academic misconduct as helping or joining friends in cheating on

exams or assignments, also sometimes students use plagiarism as simple solution who cannot
handle their workload and did not complete their work on time and some students can commit
acts of academic misconduct unintentionally because they did not understands the protocol of
academy.
Consequences of academic misconduct
The person who found guilty of academic misconduct the academy can possess and charge
penalties on them degree of punishment is depend upon the seriousness of the crime and
misconducts such as a warning given by the teacher in verbal and written notice to students to
not conduct such type of activity in future again and give them punishment of compulsory
attendance at extra class of academic integrity (Ozhevan, 2018).
A teacher can temporary remove students for one week or a month from class or school and
inform it to their parents and principal to take strict action against their unethical behaviour.
After that if a student commits such misconducts again then school authorities take serious action
against them such as reduction of their grades, retaking a test or assignment, failure in exams,
suspend them for a year also they do not give permission to them to sit in their final exams,
sometimes students will be throw out directly with the right to request for re-enroll after one year
for same class. For stealing they charge penalties such as payment and replacement of item
which is spoilt or stolen by a student or other. If a faculty member commits the act of academic
misconduct, the authority of academy can possess the punishments given above against them
also.
SECTION 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Assignment 2
A game is designed which is having name “Dice number game”. This game is basically designed
to spread awareness among students regarding academic misconduct which is based on
educational program (Hu and Zhang, 2021). This game will help students to work with proper
integrity and honesty and understand the importance of academic integrity in their academic and
future career. This is an offline game which is played by the students in a team to make the game
more interesting and entertaining the students of entire class will be divided equally into 4 team.
Steps taken in producing the game

 At first I formed a group of students to make this game and getting various ideas to make
it more interesting.
 After discussing and taking guidance on various ideas of them and also with my friends
and teacher about this assignment we decided to produce a game which is related to dice
and cards.
 The name of the game is “Dice number game” for this game we take 2 dice of different
colour then we distributed the number of both dice in two sets such as odd and even, after
that we make various cards of sum of even or odd numbers in which we put different
questions related to academic integrity and academic misconduct which help students to
avoid academic misconduct and understand the importance of academic integrity to build
their career and positive image.
While producing the game I faced many difficulties such as lack of time management and
communication skills as initially we wasted our time on idea to select for the game, mode of
game (online or offline) and assigned the duty among team members according to their interest
and skills (Himcinschi, 2021). Further I faced difficulties to convey my idea to the team
members and teachers properly after that due to lack of creativity and communication skills there
is various conflict and disagreements among team members regarding to put interesting
questions with moral message and designing of the game.
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game
 Communication skill- This is the skill which I have learned while making this game
because here I supposed to communicate with more individuals to make the task complete on
time. Here, I have assigned a team where I have to communicate well and distribute their roles
and responsibilities appropriately (Glanville and Vasconcellos, 2021). Here, I also listen
appropriately about my group's ideas and suggestions for achieving group goals.
 Creativity skills- For producing interesting game it is very important to be creative and
think to bring innovative in it. With Creativity and unique idea, we make it more
interesting and entertaining so the participants take interest and become excited to play it.
Creativity allows a person to being innovative and new ideas and thoughts which also
help them for their future career also. I have also developed this skill which helps me to
generate interesting questions for game as well as proper designing of game.

 Time management skills- It is most important skill which I learned while producing the
game is time management skill. This skill helped me throughout the process of producing
game to manage and divide the time more effectively, for the successful completion of
the game and assignment it is very important to manage time properly and use it
according to given timeline. Further I learned how to manage workload and properly
divide each and every task effectively and make it easy to smoothly carry out my work
(Denham, T., 2020).
 Problem solving and decision making skill- I have also developed problem solving skill
by solving issues and conflicts of my group and game designing activities appropriately
by taking those decisions which can mitigate the issue in such a manner so that the same
issue will not arise again. On the other hand, I also involve the participation of my group
member in decision making process so that I will get good suggestions and advices to
make an effective decision.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded that academic integrity plays an important role in developing moral values and
ethical behaviour of an individual these are those practises and behaviour which help an
individual to learn employability skills which lead them towards their success. So, it is essential
for an individual to avoid academic misconduct in their academic time and also university must
be honest and fair with them. While designing a game there are various kinds of skills which can
be learned by an individual such as communication skill, technical skills, decision making skills,
time management skill and many others.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Butterworth, C., 2021. Applied Authentic Assessment in Engineering Technology Courses for
Academic Integrity. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 4(2), pp.77-77.
Çelik, Ö. and Lancaster, T., 2021. Violations of and threats to academic integrity in online
English language teaching. The Literacy Trek, 7(1), pp.34-54.
Denham, T., 2020. My work in academic integrity 2020: Not all I hoped it would
be. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 3(2), pp.14-15.
Glanville, D.G. and Vasconcellos, M.B., 2021. Academic Academic Integrity at CCT: A
Student Partnership Approach.
Griffith, N.D., 2021. Of preaching water and drinking wine: the role of administration in
academic integrity. SN Social Sciences, 1(12), pp.1-21.
Himcinschi, M., 2021. Ethics and Academic Integrity–Conceptual Aspects. SCIENTIA
MORALITAS-International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research, 6(2), pp.164-190.
Hu, J. and Zhang, C., 2021. ESL Student Perspectives on Problems and Solutions for
Academic Integrity. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 4(2), pp.36-37.
Ives, C. and Kier, C.A., 2021. Promising Practices and Emerging Ideas in Academic Integrity
Policy Development. Canadian Perspectives on Academic Integrity, 4(2), pp.35-35.
Nurunnabi, M. and Hossain, M.A., 2019. Data falsification and question on academic
integrity. Accountability in research, 26(2), pp.108-122.
Ozhevan, M., 2018. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AS A POLITICAL, LEGAL AND ETHICAL
PROBLEM. Strategic Panorama, (2), pp.94-104.