Academic Integrity and Misconduct: Importance, Implications, and Game Design

This report discusses academic integrity, its importance in higher education, and implications of academic misconduct. It also highlights the steps taken and difficulties encountered while producing a game for assignment 2. The report concludes by emphasizing the need to overcome academic misconduct and the skills learned during the academic year.

FURTHER ACADEMIC SKILLS

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1......................................................................................................................................3
Description of academic integrity................................................................................................3
Importance of academic integrity in higher education................................................................4
Implications of academic misconduct..........................................................................................5
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................5
Step take and difficulties encountered during producing the game for assignment 2.................5
Skill learned during the academic year and emphasised lay on producing game........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is expectancy of teacher, student and other individuals that it will act
honestly, fairly, respectively and responsibility. It is fundamental to the teaching, learning and
research process engaged in the university that contribute student and other staff member to find
out new ideas, knowledge and creative work while acknowledge work of others. This report
depicts significant information pertaining to academic integrity, its importance in higher
education and implications of academic misconduct.
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
Description of academic integrity
Academic integrity is the process of avoiding the cheating and plagiarism as well as other
misconduct behaviours by student while studying in the University. It is method of putting
values into practice that is honesty, fairness and others elements so that no harm can be caused to
student learn and its overall growth. Obtaining the unauthorised information during course of
examination from other student related to test material is best example of academic integrity. It
involves process such as copying, sharing and taking solution material for assignment homework
and research problem to complete the same in effectively manner (Evans, Henderson and
Ashton-Hay, 2019). It is type of commitment that has been made by student and teacher to
promote six values such as fairness, trust, respect, honesty, courage and responsibility. All this
contribute in maintaining diversity and equality among the student within the university.
Academic integrity can also be defined as process of making ethical decision, asking
question to the student to know whether they have understood the key concept or not. Such as,
the teacher must take decision while considered all ethical values, moral principle and others
things. It should continuously ask question from student to assess their existing knowledge and
the manner in which they can be improved for better outcome. There are many ways in which
academic integrity can be promoted likewise, clarification of instruction, rules and regulation
that must be followed by both lecturer and student while learning things in the university.
Planning ahead is also steps that has to be encountered for academic integrity as it helps in
effective completion of each and every activity in well organised and sequential manner
(Guerrero-Dib, Portales and Heredia-Escorza, 2020). Hence, Academic integrity is the process

that involves following of the five values such as trust, honesty fairness, responsibility and
respect. All these need to be adhere even if the situation is too difficult.
Importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity in higher education allows the student as well as the staff to effective
share their respective idea, point of view and knowledge for effective outcome. At the same time,
focus on respecting and acknowledging each other works. It will also have contributed in
reducing the chances of academic misconduct through promoting consistent, fair and
transparency and many more. In addition to this, it helps individual in learning career skill and
knowledge that are required for future success or get a better opportunity in future scenario.
Academic integrity also leads in creating trust between peers and professors through effectively
sharing information about the task, activities that need to be completed (Morris, 2018). The
student through following academic integrity in higher education, earn right to take full credit for
work accomplished or gained reliability that it has only completed the work. Furthermore, the
study has shown that it contributes in building a sense of responsibilities among the student to
lay efforts on learning things.
Secondary research has helped in knowing that academic integrity lead in giving student
chance of success by effectively doing their assessment of task with honest attitude. At the same
time, it helps student form being bad consequence that is failing from assignment or even getting
the resignation from the university. This also helped in encouraging student to share all
innovative and creative ideas that could be used to complete the assignment. It lay emphasis that
the university must be consistent and trustworthy in its standards for its assessment and courses,
so that other people can have confident on the degree and graduation (Stoesz and Eaton, 2020).
Hence, there are many of the university that take issue of misconduct as serious with an motive
that other people or employer can easily rely on the same.
Moreover, it can be stated that the student that completing their graduation feel proud that
they have achieved high standard, know that learning is based on foundation of trust and respect.
This also lead in providing proper credit to all the people that have effectively shared their
information and values. University focus on ensures that students will maximize their learning
opportunities and they are being fairly judge for their achievement. It helps in creating healthy
and more safe environment with the University as each and every individual give respect and

recognition to other for their efforts (Bretag, 2018). Integrity in the assignment contribute in
student learning from the subject, improving their current skill and capabilities that they can
make use to get a better employment opportunity in future scenario. This also contribute in
developing the feeling among the student to does not commit fraudulent practice within the
examination in order to get higher grade from other student.
Implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct can be defined as action that are taken by student pertaining to
cheating in relation with formal academic exercise. Plagiarism, contract cheating, collusion and
possession of unauthorised materials and fabrication of data are various Academic misconduct
that are being performed by the student to get good grade in the university (Biagioli and et.al.,
2019). It has adverse implication such as penalties that the university can impose on the
offending student. Receive a lower grade or failing grade as an academic sanction are also the
consequence of the academic misconduct that may be suffered by the student.
It is serious breach of rule and regulation of the university by making copying of the
material that has been of other student. For example: there are circumstances that the requiring
the student to redo the assignment for a reduced grade or termination of the student from taking
participation in the research project. It would not be able to get the grade it wants, at the same
time, it lead in negative brand image of the student. Thus, may be employers is not ready to have
such a student that have get passed by cheating. Furthermore, there are chance of application of
the if academic misconduct is of high range and impacting on large number of student as well as
the university (Perkins, Gezgin and Roe, 2020). Consequently, most of the university does not
tolerate any type of misconduct cause by the student for its own benefits. Therefore, it can be
concluded that the student might have to pay huge penalty for ding cheating in the exam by copy
of other ideas, knowledge and many more.
SECTION 2
Step take and difficulties encountered during producing the game for assignment 2
While making the game in the assignment 2, there are various steps that I have taken
such as planning, organising, staffing, controlling and coordinating for fruitful outcome.
Likewise, the first step that I have undertaken is planning about all the task that has to be
completed, resources that will be required in order to design the game. I plan and decided task

and responsibilities that need to be performed by me while designing the game so that there is no
future complication. In planning phase, I have also done research on what type of games that can
be design to teach student pertaining to academic integrity, misconduct and plagiarism. I have
plan and design the rules and the manner in which the game will be played hence all can have
gained knowledge pertaining to the concept of academic integrity and others (Parnther, 2020).
Second, main steps that I have undertaken in producing the game in assignment 2 is organising
the activities, task as well as the total number of resources, equipment that will be required to
design the game. This has helped in saving time as well as efforts in arranging the activities and
resources. In addition to this, I have undertaken steps to coordinate activities or task that are
being performed by each team member pertaining to the game. So, that there are little chances of
confusion and things are organised in effective manner. At last I have taken steps to check all the
key activities that are being performed by the me as the standard set to find out corrective action
for getting the desired outcome.
At the same time, it can be stated that there are range of difficulties that I have occurred
during the game designing or assignment 2 such as I have face challenge in deciding a particular
game that could be useful to teach about academic integrity, consequence of academic
misconduct and many more. I have also face challenge in thinking about the rules and procedure
that could be used to play the game so that the end outcome can be achieved in effective manner
(Pupovac, Popović and Blažina, 2019). Furthermore, it can be stated that in coordinating and
organise the activities as per the desired objective to effectively make or design game. All these
results in causing challenge for me to design the game that can helps in improving knowledge
pertaining to academic integrity and many other concepts.
Skill learned during the academic year and emphasised lay on producing game
From the analysis, it can be stated that there are range of different skilled that I have learned
during the academic year, likewise I have learned communication skills. This has helped me in
effectively sharing each and every information to other individuals in desired manner so that
there are no chances of confusion in future scenario. The academic year has contributed me in
learning about the team working skills or the manner in which I should work with different
individuals so that the desired goals can be achieved. It has improved by communication skills,
team working to effectively coordinate with range of people to complete task in specific
direction and in limited time frame (Casey, Casey and Griffin, 2018). Furthermore, it can be

noted that academic year has helped in enhancing my research skills by providing me assignment
pertaining to different subject areas. As this has helped me in learning techniques, key terms or
words that could be used to make research and get necessary information in limited time frame.
Creativity is all about finding new ways to solve our day to day problems. This game helped
a lot in enhancing my creativity skills and boosting confidence. Such as, I use to learn new things
each day and try to face the challenges that came in our way. Moreover, the game helped me in
improving our critical thinking skills as I am very keen and observant about how to make things
work. This game helped us in developing our researching skills as I studied different books,
researched and analysed the specific areas of study before introducing this game. This game
improved our problem-solving skills as each day there was new set of problems in front of us
and in order to move ahead I had to solves these problems. I used to identify the problems then
examine them and then act on them to solve the issues. Therefore, overall the games as well as
academic year has taught a lot many things, skill that are useful for my current and future
circumstances.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it can be concluded that the academic integrity is process that
involves honestly, transparently and ethically sharing all the information between the professor
and student. The study has also helped in learning that there are numerous skills, challenges that
I have face while designing game that will helps me in getting better job ahead. At last it can be
concluded that student must take steps to overcome academic misconduct such as cheating and
copying of other material to effectively complete its degree course from well reputable
university.

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