Academic Integrity: Meaning, Importance, and Implications for University Students

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Section-1..........................................................................................................................................3
Meaning of Academic Integrity..................................................................................................3
A description of the importance of academic integrity...............................................................4
Academic Misconduct and its implication at university.............................................................5
Section-2..........................................................................................................................................6
Reflect the taken steps and difficulties........................................................................................6
Skills learned in the higher education and those emphasized in the game production...............7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERNCES:..................................................................................................................................9
Books and Journals:....................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
The university and broader academic society is built on shared norms and values of
behaviour in the academy, including fairness, honesty and responsibility. Academic Integrity can
be meant by putting such values and norms into practise by being fair and honest in the academic
work which a student do at university (Bertram-Gallant, 2019). It is the responsibility of
academy to give credit to their students for deliver honesty and fairness in their work. The
following report is divided into two sections, in the first section it is including the meaning and
importance of academic integrity, meaning of academic misconduct and its implications in the
higher education. In second section, it reflects the steps and difficulties encountered in designing
a game. It also outlines the skills which a student learned in the academic year.
Section-1
Meaning of Academic Integrity.
Academic Integrity can be understood as an expectation that students, teachers,
researchers and all members of the academy act with fairness, honesty, respect, trust and
responsibility (Dawson and Sutherland-Smith, 2019). It defines the moral codes and ethical
policies of university. It supports the demonstration and commitment of doing honest work in an
academic setting. At University, it is the most relevant as it associates to giving credit to the
students when they using original ideas. In other terms, it needs acknowledging the contributions
of other people work. If anyone fails to acknowledge the work then it considered as plagiarism.
Academic Integrity was popularized by the late Don McCabe who was known as the
“grandfather of academic integrity”. There are many more scholars and advocates of academic
integrity such as Cath Ellis, Tracey Bretag, Thomas Lancaster, Sarah Elaine Eaton, Tricia
Bertram Gallant and Foltynek Tomas. It also supports the enactment of avoiding cheating,
contract cheating and plagiarism while maintaining the academic values and standards, honesty
and rigor in academic research and publishing. Academic Integrity is practiced in most of the
academic institutions and it is noted mission statements, honor codes, procedures and in policies
as well. Pupils learned academic integrity in ethical classes and it is also being noted in syllabi.
In majority of universities, they have section on their official websites which devotes that what
the term academic integrity means to them. A honor code in the university can assist to develop
trust and honesty to pupils and deliver credit those students who originally wrote it. It can aids