Importance of Academic Integrity at University: A Quiz Competition Game

The presentation discusses the importance of academic integrity at university and introduces a quiz competition game to help students develop academic, professional, and personal skills while learning about plagiarism and misconduct reduction. The game involves a PowerPoint presentation with questions and answers related to the topic. Skills used to produce the game include PowerPoint, academic, research, paraphrasing, writing, organizing, designing, creativity, and cognitive skills.

Instructions for playing the game
BMP3003 Further Academic Skills
Provides skills to the students is one of the importance of academic integrity at university which
means that students are able to learn the academic skills and professional skills along with the personal skills as
well while applying the academic integrity which benefits them in their career growth and development.
Transferable skills are also includes which are important for each and every student and are gained by the
academic integrity. Manages the responsibilities and complications is an another importance of academic integrity
at university which means that it supports the university in their management and operations so that the staff can
take the responsibilities with full accountability with good effectiveness and efficiency which results in a reduction
in complicated nature of work and management of students as well (Cavaliere, De Souza, Fenton and Saito, 2020).
Building of new ideas among staff in universities is also one of the importance of academic integrity at university
which means that workforce in university thinks out of the box if academic integrity is maintained which will result
in an innovative and creative idea to teach students and providing the relevant knowledge about not only in their
academics but also in practical life as well along with the various activities also. Better response to any misconduct
is also an another importance of academic integrity at university which means that each and every stakeholders in
the university including students, parents, teachers, mentors and many more provides the relevant response to
any misconduct happening in an organization by identifying the issues and rectifying the same on a prior basis to
reduce further complications in future. Security of privacy and records management policy is one of the
importance of academic integrity at university which means that academic integrity teaches the students and
teachers ad well that how they can maintain the security and safety of the data they are handling so that they can
take the corrective measures in the form of records management system for better database management system
in university. Improvement in monitoring misconduct and taking actions is an another importance of academic
integrity at university which means that it is the responsibility of the teachers to properly evaluate and monitor any
misconduct happening in the organization so that they can plan and implement the measures so that strict actions
could be taken for the same and therefore academic integrity is important (Makarova, 2019). Provides good image
and reputation in the industry is also one of the importance of academic integrity at university which means that
by adopting the academic integrity in an organization then it can directly affect the goodwill of the university so in
order to maintain the better image and reputation, academic integrity helps the university in the same. Reduces
risks and provides mitigations is an another importance of academic integrity at university which means that
academic integrity helps the organization in reducing the risk if plagiarism and any misconduct so that in future it
cannot be repeated again along with the proper mitigation process for future considerations and decision making
so that execution process can be done in an appropriate manner (Awasthi, 2019). Development of ethical practices
is also an another importance of academic integrity at university which means that ethics are the most important
thing to have in an organization which describes the basic behaviour and values of the workforce working in the
university and academic integrity is considered as one of the most important ethic which is required to get
followed for better operations of the university.
An explanation of why academic
integrity at University is so important
Game Design
Skills used to produce the game
PowerPoint skills: It is one of the skills used to produce the
game that is the PowerPoint skills which means that the game involves the
power point presentation while answering the questions and therefore at the
time of designing the game, power point skills are used for better
presentation of the questions. Academic skills: It is an another skills used to
produce the game that is the academic skills which means that academic
investigation is required while developing the game and therefore skills are
needed in the development of game which are associated with the academy
and curriculum for better learning of plagiarism and misconduct reduction
(Nimasari, 2018). Research skills: It is also one of the skills used to produce
the game that is the research skills which means that a lot of research is
required while developing the game because game consist several questions
and they are investigated and then prepared for the students with relevant
and reliable content for the game. Paraphrasing skills: It is also an another
skills used to produce the game that is the paraphrasing skills which means
that the power point presentation contains both the questions as well as the
answers also and that is why paraphrasing skills are required so that any
rubbish questions and answers could not be inserted which can reduce the
learning power of the students. Writing skills: It is one of the skills used to
produce the game that is the writing skills which means that presentation
requites the quality content in attractive outlook so that the students can pay
attention to the game and play with all their willingness and interest which
results in the better communication skills in a written manner. Organising
skills: It is an another skills used to produce the game that is the organising
skills which means that it is essential to manage and handle the students in
order to form the group and maintain discipline while playing and therefore
organising skills are required to organise the whole game (Grgić, 2018).
Designing skills: It is also one of the skills used to produce the game that is
the designing skills which means that this skill is necessarily needed from
planning the game to the implementation and evaluation of the results of the
game because without designing skills everything can go mismatch and
therefore potential formation of the game, designing skills are important.
Creativity skills: It is also an another skills used to produce the game that is
the creativity skills which means that good idea and innovative mindset are
required to produce the game so that students cannot get bored while playing
game because this can affect the negative learning among students so
therefore in order to maintain the positive culture during game, creativity
skills are needed (Farahian, Avarzamani and Rezaee, 2021). Cognitive skills: It
is one of the skills used to produce the game that is the cognitive skills which
means that thinking out of the box skills are significantly required because the
concept of the game must be unique so that students can take the interest
while playing the game with something new conception and it also involves
the problem solving methodologies as well.
Name
Overview: Name of the game is the quiz competition based on the plagiarism and
misconduct at university along with the academic integrity in the form of
presentation by the host of the game. Instructions: There will be a quiz
competition in university organized by the teachers and hosting will be done for
the game in a power point presentation on big screen so that it can be visible to
everyone like the use of projector. There will be different slides of questions and
answers related to the topic of plagiarism and misconduct and students have to
answer by reading the question immediately. It is like a fastest finger first which
means that the student who will give the right answer first will be in the top three
on the rating list. At the end, points will be calculated of each and every student
and who so ever will be the top three students will be rewarded with some prizes
so that students try hard to give the right answers at first. There will be the buzzer
system in which the first buzzer will be given the chance to answer and then the
other buzzers till three times. These are the instruction of the entire game which
has to be followed not only by the students but by the host and teachers as well
which can help them to maintain the academic integrity and provides the
knowledge about plagiarism and misconduct (Perkins, Gezgin and Roe, 2020).
References
Awasthi, S., 2019. Plagiarism and Academic Misconduct: A Systematic Review.
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Cavaliere, P., De Souza, D., Fenton, A.L. and Saito, M., 2020. Academic
Misconduct and Plagiarism: Case Studies from Universities Around the
World. Lexington Books.
Farahian, M., Avarzamani, F. and Rezaee, M., 2021. Plagiarism in higher
education across nations: A case of language students. Journal of
Applied Research in Higher Education.
Grgić, I.H., 2018. Teaching About Plagiarism at Higher Education Level. Towards
Consistency and Transparency in Academic Integrity, p.157.
Makarova, M., 2019. Factors of academic misconduct in a cross-cultural
perspective and the role of integrity systems. Journal of Academic
Ethics. 17(1). pp.51-71.
Nimasari, E.P., 2018. How do Undergraduate Students avoid Plagiarism?. Senior
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Perkins, M., Gezgin, U.B. and Roe, J., 2020. Reducing plagiarism through
academic misconduct education. International Journal for Educational
Integrity. 16(1). pp.1-15.