Academic Integrity: Importance, Misconduct, and Solutions

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................4
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity ................................................4
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education................................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct......................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game for
Assignment 2...............................................................................................................................6
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game....................................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Main objective of this report is to critically analysis the concept of academic integrity. It
means placing all those values into practices by being honest in academic work that a person do
in an university. Academic integrity includes the moral code and ethical policy of academia. This
term is developed by Don McCabe, who is consider as the grandfather of academic integrity. For
this second section of this report Snipping Plagiarism game is taking into consideration. It is a
online fun game which is designed for students for gaining knowledge regarding academic
integrity. This game help them in avoiding plagiarism and any misconduct happening in
academic. This report includes various importance of academic integrity, academic misconducts
and its various types such as plagiarism, collusion, fabrication of data and so on. Other than this
it includes implication for academic misconduct and various solutions for avoiding academic
misconducts.
TASK 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
It refers to the values that a person do in a university. The main purpose of all students
and teachers or tutors are not only just to develop and build knowledge and their skills but also
its very important to do all these activities in a way which maximise accuracy and fairness across
the academic community. For achieving higher accuracy and fairness it require to properly
understand and develop various practices and academic skills. Academic integrity describe the
values which are very essential for an university. It includes the five core values which are
Accuracy, honesty, fairness, responsibility, respect. Accuracy means that every work conducted
in university is free from error. Honesty means being truthful about your idea and others idea.
Fairness means not try to gain advantage from unfair means. Responsibility means taking a
active role in their own learning. While in last the most important value is respect which means
always give respect to all fellow students, tutors and work of other students (Abbott and
Nininger, 2021).
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity play an essential role in higher education various importance of
academic integrity in higher education is mention below: