Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

This report discusses the concept of academic integrity and its significance in higher education. It explores the implications of academic misconduct and reflects on the steps and difficulties encountered in producing a game for Project 2. The report also highlights the skills emphasized in the academic year and their relevance in game production.

Academic skills
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Section 1 ........................................................................................................................................3
Introduction of Academic Integrity............................................................................................3
The importance of academic integrity in higher education ........................................................4
The implications of academic misconduct..................................................................................5
Session 2 .........................................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing the game for Project 2....6
Reflect on the skills of the academic year and those emphasized in producing your game.......6
CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8
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INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity includes the ethical behaviour used in the academic setting of the
organisation (Tamis-LeMonda and et.al., 2019). It is the process of acknowledging others for the
work they have done and helping them in improving the performance. The academic integrity is
the process of giving the credit about the work that is given by others in the organisation. The
report is on the game which is made to solve the problem of the ethical behaviour of the students.
The game is to reduce the plagiarism in the studies. The report includes a description of
Academic Integrity, the importance of academic integrity in higher education, the implications of
academic misconduct and the Reflect on the steps and difficulties encountered in producing the
game for Project 2.
Section 1
Introduction of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity is the moral conducts that is expected from the scholars who are
studying the topic and they should have the ethical behaviour. They are exchanging the ideas and
developing new ideologies of the topic so they should have the ethical conduct in the studies. It
is observed that the scholars will have honesty in the behaviour and they should have the
integrity in the work that will help them in improving the performance. The students should not
have the dishonest behaviour as it will impact the studies and they are focusing on the factors.
The academic integrity is having the factors
 Honesty- The honesty is the basis of all the academic integrity and they are helping them
in increasing the performance (Hall and DiPerna, 2017). The studies should not involve
plagiarism, cheating and the dishonest behaviour of the students. They should not be
involved in the unauthorised collaboration and the work which is not well in the
organisation. The scholars should work according to the academic integrity to increase
the performance.
 Trust- The students should trust the scholars and the work they are doing because they
are increasing the performance. The scholars should trust other scholars because they are
having research on the topic and helping others to have the observation. A trust is the
quality that the students should have that will help them in increasing the performance.
They will have the fair behaviour in the studies that will help them in working together.
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 Fairness- It is connected with the honesty and trust. The fairness is the basis on which it
is given that everyone is treated fair and they are getting the similar roles in the
organisation (Burchinal and et.al., 2020). The students will have the trust on the integrity
when they think that they are having fairness.
 Respect- The scholars should have the respect for others. They should trust the idea of
the others and they should respect them that it is given with the honesty. It is the process
in which they should given them the knowledge to improve the performance.
 Responsibility- The scholars are responsible for the integrity and trust. They should have
the ethical conduct that will help them in increasing the performance. Everyone is
responsible for mainlining the connection and they should have the trust and honesty.
The importance of academic integrity in higher education
The Academic integrity is the base for the development of new ideas in the university.
They will take the inspiration from the existing ideas and they will for the basis and increasing
the performance. The Academic integrity is important for the universities giving higher
education and the students getting the higher education. It is important for the students to have
the integrity in the studies because they will have to increase the performance. They should have
the honesty and trust that will help them in the studies and increasing the knowledge. The
students should focus on the personal and professional factors that will help them in increasing
the performance (Wibrowski, Matthew and Kitsantas, 2017). The Academic integrity is helping
the students in the students that is done by them and it is helping them in increasing the skills.
They should give the credit to the students that are helping them in the studies. They are getting
the knowledge which is important for the students and even if they are not increasing the skills
they will get the help in the future which is important for them in improving performance. The
students should not have the dishonest behaviour because they are affecting the knowledge
which is important for increasing the studies. They should think that if they are caught doing the
misconducts they will be removed from the university and it will have the impact on the
students. The scholars should get the credit of the work they are doing because it will help the
students and it is observed that they have studies it and it is increasing performance. It is helping
the students in increasing the knowledge which will help them in the studies.
The Academic integrity is helping the students of the university to increase the
performance they are helping the universities to increase the trust of the students. The scholars
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should have the trust in the universities that they will get the credit of the work and they should
focus on improving the performance. The organisations are having misconduct which is affecting
the integrity and they are not increasing the skills. The students of higher education are taught
that they should work in honesty and trust to increase the studies (Siddiq, Gochyyev and Valls,
2020). They should focus on the factors that will help them in increasing the performance. The
importance of integrity for higher education is helping the students in the studies and they will
help them in the studies.
The implications of academic misconduct
The Academic misconduct is important for increasing the knowledge that is helping them
in the professional plan and they are improving the performance. The students with less
capabilities are including in the misconducts and it is observed that they are not increasing the
studies. The Academic misconduct will increase the plagiarism and they will affect the studies of
the students. The impact of misconduct on the students and they are increasing the performance.
 Academic consequence- The students should find them guilty and they should help in
educating to improve the performance (Ebadi and Rahimi, 2017). The Academic integrity
is helping them in reducing the risks. The misconduct will affect the knowledge of the
students and they will not able to improve the performance. It will not increase the skills
of the students.
 Legal consequence- The universities have to send the work of the students to the external
factors that are reviewing them for analysing the performance. The students can have the
misconduct like plagiarism, falsification and fabrication of the data which is affecting the
ethical factors of the students. The external organisation can take legal actions against the
universities when they observe that they are having misconducts. The students should get
the honesty in the universities. It will affect the organisation and the students will not
want to study.
 Loss of intellectual property- The plagiarism in studies is equal to the stealing the
properties of others. The Academic integrity is not helping the students when they are
having plagiarism in the studies. The original idea and the work of the others is the
property and it is not ethical to take it and not giving the credit to the students who is
increasing the performance. The studies can be the source of income to someone and
taking it can affect the monetary and intellectual loss of the students.
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 Inaccurate assessment- The students are assesses on the basis of the students they are
having and it will not be the accurate assessment when they are not giving the credit of
the performance (Little, Lonigan and Phillips, 2020). They will get the credit of the study
they have not done and it is not helping them in analysing the studies.
 Other practical concerns- The students who are taking the credit of the work that is done
by others are not able to increase the performance. They are not helping them in
improving the knowledge. The students should focus on the factors that will help them in
the studies.
Session 2
Reflect on the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing the game for Project 2
The game that is designed in Project 2 is Plag Bomber which is helping the students in
increasing the knowledge and Academic integrity. The first step in designing the game is the
brainstorm of what the students think is the plag. The students should research about the different
factors that are affecting the performance of the studies. The game which is decided has two
types, the first is the question will come and the students have to answer and who answers first
will win the game and the second part is that they will come again and they will have to select
the answer which they have selected earlier. The students will get the 5 points for the right
answers and it will help in having Academic integrity.
The difficulties encountered in producing the game for Project 2 is that the brainstorming
will not helped much in selecting the game. The difficulty was in selecting the questions and
analysing who has answered first and giving the points to the students. The game is designed and
it was difficult to assess it and help the students in increasing the performance. The students
should focus on the topics that are in the game and they will have to increase the knowledge.
They will have to study and it will help them in the studies but it is difficult to analyse
performance. The students should focus on the factors that are helping them in increasing the
studies.
Reflect on the skills of the academic year and those emphasized in producing your game
The game design is helping in the academic year and increasing the skills of the students.
They are getting the skills which are experimental and increasing the knowledge of the students.
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 Imagination and creativity skills- The game which is designed is new and it should be
relevant to the students. They will help in brainstorming and increasing the skills that are
helping the students in increasing the performance. The steps in designing the game is
making it easy for the students who are having skills.
 Organisation skills- It is important that the things are according to the needs of the
students. The organisation skills will help them improving the performance. They will
help in analysing the factors that are important for giving the products.
 Written skills- It will help the students in increasing the written skills. They are having
the factors that are important for increasing the performance.
 Communication skills- The communication skills is important for the students that will
help them in increasing the performance. The students should focus on the factors that
will help them in communicating with others in the organisation.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that the game should be designed to increase the
performance of the students. They should analyse the factors that will help them in increasing the
performance. The students should analyse the factors that will help in the studies. They should
help in giving the credit of the studies and they should help them in increasing the knowledge.
The students should help in increasing the performance.
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