BSc (Hons) Business Management, BMP3003: Academic Integrity Report

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity, focusing on its significance in higher education and within a business management context. It defines academic integrity, emphasizing the importance of honesty, trust, fairness, and responsibility. The report explores the importance of academic integrity, highlighting how it fosters ethical behavior, enhances research skills, and promotes student development. It also delves into the implications of academic misconduct, including its impact on personality, reputation, and institutional integrity. Furthermore, the report details the steps taken to design a game related to academic integrity, discussing the challenges encountered and reflecting on the skills developed throughout the process, such as IT skills, creativity, and problem-solving. The conclusion summarizes the key findings, reinforcing the importance of academic integrity in academic and professional settings.

BSc (Hons) Business
Management with
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BMP3003
Further Academic Skills
Academic Integrity
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
Section 1 ........................................................................................................................................3
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity .................................................3
A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education ................................4
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct .....................................................................5
SECTION 2......................................................................................................................................6
Steps taken to design the game....................................................................................................6
Difficulties encountered in producing the game .........................................................................7
Reflection on such skills which is used to create a game ..........................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity means the important perspective which has been develop upon
different perspectives that is based over students academic progress. These skills are related
towards enhancing skills and knowledge in relation to degree that is required to be attained by
students. The concept is used for improving knowledge and skills of students in relation to their
career development. Also, through academic integrity mental capacity of students are improved
which helps in making learning to be done in more enhanced manner. Scope of academic
integrity is wider as it impacts learning abilities of students. Nature is dynamic which makes
goals and objectives achieved leading towards overall development of an individual. The report
is based over academic integrity, its importance in learning and academic misconduct. In the end
difficulties and skills related to game development has been explained.
MAIN BODY
Section 1
An Introduction including a description of Academic Integrity
Academic integrity means strong framework which is used for analysing elements like
teachers, students, researchers and other members related to education departments in order to
seek their progress towards learning. According to the concept different qualities like honesty,
trust, fairness, respect and responsibility are developed within students so that they are able to
perform better with time(Brenkert, 2019). Further, academic integrity deals with ethics and
moral support that makes professionalism developed within students which helps them in
selecting their career at early age. The concept of academic integrity aims to embed professional
values with learnings that make ideas and topics understood by students during their due course
period. It allows students to select job roles and pursue within the direction of achieving the job
role. This is used for shaping strong framework which allows effective skills like decision
making, communication and conflict management developed within students. Academic integrity
is important from view point to improve practical learning which makes students get correct
exposure within their filed. Programs like guest lectures, internships and workshops related to
technicalities of particular field make students encouraged towards paving path of goals and

objectives related to career development. The concept mainly aims towards growth and
sustainable improvement of students academic performance which eventually makes students
form positive approach towards their future growth.
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A discussion of the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity leads towards making students and individuals work upon new ideas
which allows learning to be more effective in nature. It makes students achieve expertise within
particular area or department. The university with academic integrity is able to make students
more disciplined and progress oriented within time period of their course. Through academic
integrity research skills are enhanced which allows students become researcher and innovate
ideas to improve career(Klugman and et. al., 2018). Further, academic integrity makes goals
specified as short, medium and long term that makes progress possible in right direction.
Importance of academic integrity is dependent upon methods used by students to understand
particular topic. Academic integrity implies over making ethical and moral principles understood
by students making behavioural aspect improved towards making productive approach develop
within students. This makes teacher assists students towards performing team assignment which
make importance of team work developed within students. It recollects legal responsibility and
integrity of students by making them understood about fraud and theft activities which impacts
their growth within an organization. Academic integrity makes mission and vision of students
developed over opportunities existing within their field of interest and topics related to it.
Importance of academic interest is based upon understanding about behavioural patterns and
ethical code of conduct which is important part of professional life. Academic integrity is
important for teachers as it make them work with innovative ideas to makes learning interesting
for students and develop strong relation with them by guiding towards growth and success.
Teachers are able to solve quarries of students regarding the topics. There are mainly six primary
ideas of Academic integrity that are rust, decency, boldness, genuineness, responsibility and
regard. The element makes students become disciplined and focused over projects assigned to
them. Further, certain importance of academic integrity has been discussed as follows:
 The basic importance of academic integrity is based over helping teacher for developing
and improving their teaching skills by increasing innovation within their teaching
patterns(Schönberger, 2019). It makes students develop interest within particular field
and topics related to it.
 This help University and its management develop knowledge with values in the students
like honesty, fairness, trust, respect and responsibility making work improved with better
performance(de los Reyes and et. al, 2017). These values makes students become moral
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strong and ethically free from any kind of misconduct important for professional
development of student.
 Through academic integrity university is able to handle various kinds of academic
misconduct which makes university attain stability within academic work. It is important
to develop mechanism and action over academic integrity.
 Academic integrity helps university students to obtain educational degree that is reflected
within their overall achievement in effective manner. The performance of students is
analysed on basis of the percentile attain by them in the academic course of time.
 Academic integrity helps students to develop various skills which makes them
professionally advanced leading towards future development of students for better future
within their field.
 Academic integrity makes students work upon their understanding and observing
capability helps in uplifting their multi tasking ability.
Discuss the implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct means the action which are taken as a result of attaining unfair
advantage from particular work. These misconduct relates with advantages and disadvantages
which is provided in the form of biases to students(Serour and Serour, 2017). Further, it is based
over unfair treatment that is given to employees in the form of any favour or partiality. This kind
of misconduct is based upon violation of ethical code of conduct, fraud or theft which is
committed by student while performing task assigned within a project. Its is an serious offence
that has been marked out in terms of academic and professional growth. Under the concept
various behavioural aspects has been covered with cheating, plagiarism, changing educational
files or transcripts, getting access to substances earlier than they are available to any other
student and supporting of unfair educational means. In order to deal with such misconduct
universities and organizations has developed departments which are bound to take action upon
any kind of misconducted performed during the course of task completion. There are certain
examples of such misconduct which are college students trying to access records without the
permission of superior authority, creating conflicts within students for fun and damaging school
property with intention to violate ethical principles. Due to academic misconduct various
problems is faced by an individual that hinders their performance and over all growth in terms of
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academics. There are various implication of academic misconduct that has been discussed as
follows:
Impact on personality development: Student who cheat and at first get away with it may, in the
long run feel guilty and suffer from low self esteem. This loss of self respect will lead to other
problems such as difficulty with their careers, families etc.
 Goodwill and reputation of student: Academic misconduct leads towards impacting
reputation of students permanently. This makes students barred from performing any kind
of academic activity in near future for certain period of time.
 Impact on whole institution: The misconduct makes colleges reputation suffered as its
educational integrity is harmed(Siau and Wang, 2020). This happens due to various
academic misconducts like scandals and fraud making future of other students gets
impacted negatively.
 Impact on growth of a student: Student once involved in such misconduct losses their
moral values which makes the dishonest in nature. It forces them to change their thinking
and follow path which is not ethical.
 Cheating: This leads towards fraud and makes various kinds of educational task not
completed fairly. It is an important part of academic misconduct which makes lot of work
completed more effectively.
 Copying: This means trying to reproduction from others at some point of an
examination or on an task. Communicating solutions with some other individual at some
point of an examination.
SECTION 2
Steps taken to design the game
 First step to play the game is students have to sign and login by creating account.
 Then all questions are required to be answered for qualifying first stage for starting the
game.
 After answering all questions evaluation of marks is done on the basis of most points
attained by an individual.
 The game is required to be played by six individuals and four rounds are their.
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 All players are required for placing stone within corner and middle which defines about
boundary.
 Player should be able to recognize stones of board and each player requires to win mus
need 2 stones
 After placing stones on their place the opponent call name and then person picking upon
stone is required to answer question within time period of 60 seconds.
Difficulties encountered in producing the game
There are various kinds of difficulties that has been faced while developing the game.
Since the game was based upon academic integrity which made selection of name of game
become difficult. Another problem that has been faced by is to make game more authentic and
impactful in terms of learning something from it. Also, problem of coordination as other
members involved in making the game were not giving any input for improving game design.
Further, while developing game biggest problem was selecting questions of forming them. Then
most effective problem was of skill development through game.
Reflection on such skills which is used to create a game
There are numerous talents which character have found out throughout to generating this
sport together with IT talents, creativity talents, studies talents, innovation talents and lots of
extra(Asad, 2020). There is IT ability which used to assist to alternate their images a few
animation which have to be describe a big position in video games and acquainted with man or
woman layout and person interface layout. It is likewise useful for me layout a higher sport and
information approximately software program so character can effortlessly up to date their
software program and determine which kind of software program character has mounted on this
sport .
 Creativity talents: To produce this sport, character have found out approximately
creativity like a way to get ideal thoughts for this sport and bring inventive thoughts for
making this sport extra efficient. For sport designing, creativity ability is useful for me
due to the fact it's miles useful for extra state-of-the-art and triumph over the ones
demanding situations which character do not apprehend to creating this sport.
 Problems fixing talents: If there's any hassle to provide or create this sport so character
could be effortlessly cope with for every and each scenario associated with this sport.
Different factors of view have advanced throughout this sport and this strategies and
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figuring out proper mind-set for each feasible answer so character can effortlessly clear
up all issues associated with this sport.
 Critical wondering talents: In this talents, character have found out via this sport that
they want to technique even extra crucial wondering mind-set. For destiny sport
designers, character need to examine all wished statistics and supply an affordable
answer.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion it can be concluded that legal skills has been developed in order to
make development of legal integrity within students. Also it holds responsibility for improving
quality of work which makes students work in more effective manner. In this file things covered
is based over case study and interpretation of status in relation to dangerous dog has been
explained. Then various aspects regarding the act has been covered within it.
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