Importance of Academic Integrity in Higher Education

Academic Skills

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Academic Integrity......................................................................................................................3
Importance of academic integrity in higher education................................................................4
Implications of academic misconduct.........................................................................................5
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................6
Steps taken and problems encountered in producing the game...................................................6
Skills learned in academic year and those required for creating game........................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic skills refer to skills that are required for succeeding in academic context of
individual. Academic integrity is concerned with commitment and practice of individuals in
which they demonstrate a behaviour which is moral and ethical in terms of academic practices.
This involves considering what is right and fair in terms of academic performance of individual.
The report will discuss about academic integrity and importance of academic integrity along with
what can be implications of academic misconduct. In this report reflection on game it was
produced in project to will also be included and the name of the game is mastermind which is
related to plagiarism and academic misconduct.
MAIN BODY
Academic Integrity
Honest and moral behaviour of individuals in context of academic performance in an
educational setting and commitment that individual reflect for moral behaviour is known as
academic integrity. Academic integrity is considered very important in academic and educational
context where it is expected that individuals and staff ensure that when they create new ideas
knowledge and work they give required acknowledgement to others for their ideas. Academic
integrity is important because of several reasons among which ensuring that everyone gets credit
and recognition for their work is very important (Morris, 2018). Academic integrity ensures that
students and staff in academic or educational context avoid practices that are known as academic
misconduct. Practices of academic misconduct include plagiarism in which work of others is
presented by individual on their own name. Academic integrity is based on five pillars that are
honesty trust fairness respect and responsibility. Honesty is one of the five pillars of academic
integrity in which individual is expected to act and practice sincerity and ensure that they do not
do anything which is likely to affect rights of others. Trust is concerned with a pillar in which
individuals are expected to trust in other people in their community among with students and
staff is expected to trust in their community.Fairnessis also very important pillar of academic
integrity in which every individual is expected to believe that they are being treated fairly and
they are also expected to treated everyone equally and fairly. This pillar involved that everyone
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