Academic Integrity Game Design: Further Academic Skills Task

This assignment focuses on designing a game called 'Plagquiz' to educate students about plagiarism and academic misconduct. The game involves four teams competing in a buzzer round with multiple-choice questions related to plagiarism and strategies to avoid it. The assignment outlines the rules of the game, including scoring and question format, emphasizing the importance of academic integrity and the negative impacts of plagiarism, such as penalties, course failures, and legal repercussions. The game aims to develop a crucial understanding of plagiarism avoidance, promoting ethical academic practices among students. The assignment also includes a poster with sample questions covering various aspects of academic misconduct and integrity.

Further Academic Skills

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Designing the game for students.................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Academic skill is being referred to as the various skills which are essential for the effective
learning and analysis of the skill for better learning. The proper knowledge of skills is essential
for the effective learning and this will assist in better and effective working of business. In the
recent environment, it has become important to develop crucial set of academic skills so that
significant ability to deal with changing circumstances can become possible. The current study
will help in gaining the depth understanding about the highlighted subject matter. In the present
study the game will be designed for effective understanding of the avoiding plagiarism and
academic misconduct. Further the report will also outline the fact that why academic integrity is
important along with this discussion relating to skills learnt will be analysed.
TASK 1
Designing the game for students
Game design
Plagquiz
Game setting
This is a game wherein the people will gather at a common place and all the interested people
will participate in the game. In this the four team will be made having five people in each team
totalling to twenty people. This game aims at increasing the knowledge relating to the fact that
how plagiarism can be removed. Plagiarism is not good for the students to conduct and because
of this it is necessary that students have knowledge relating to the fact that how the people can
manage to avoid plagiarism.
Plagiarism has several negative impact on the student, thus focus on developing
understanding about its elimination become possible (Muhammad and et.al., 2020). There are
number of aspect which lead to create the plagiarism activity such as ease of completing wok,
gaining higher score, etc. the negative impact which is required to be eliminated in respect to
have proper functioning includes grades penalties, course failures, disciplinary action,
suspension or expulsion from university, legal repercussions, etc. on the basis of this it can be
said that following the below mentioned steps can help in achieving proper insights to develop
understanding about the same with help of this game.

How to play
 There will be five members in each team and will be having total of four team which
implies that 20 people will play the game.
 There will be total of 10 questions being asked within he game relating to plagiarism and
strategies to avoid it.
 This will be a buzzer round and as the question will be displayed on screen the first
buzzer which will be pressed by the team, that will be answering the question.
 In case the team has given wrong answer then the next pressed buzzer team will give the
answer.
 There will be total of 10 MCQ that is multiple choice questions being asked from the
people.
 For every correct answer there will be 10 points and for wrong answer negative 5 points
will be provided.
 At the end, the team which will be having maximum points will be the winner of the
game.
On the basis of this, it can be mentioned that following these steps can help in developing the
crucial understanding about the particular subject matter so that objective of developing game
can become possible.
TASK 2
Covered in poster
Game question
Q1. What are the various forms in which misconduct can be taken place?
 Copy of work of someone else
 Cheating
 Fabrication
 All of the above
Q2. What is academic integrity?
 Knowledge and awareness relating to plagiarism
 Proper balance and maintenance of attendance

 Complying with curriculum of university
Q3. Do working in group also considered as academic misconduct?
 Yes
 No
Q4. From the following which are the example of academic integrity violation?
 Rephrasing
 Plagiarism
 None of the above
 All of the above
Q5. Is conducting plagiarism done intentionally?
 Yes
 No
Q6. From the following what type of plagiarism can be conducted?
 Complete
 Incomplete
 Partial
 All of the above
Q7. Is discussion with tutor considered as misconduct?
 Yes
 No
 Not sure
Q8. From the following which falls under value of academic integrity?
 Discipline
 Truthfulness
 Honesty
All of the above
Q9. With help of which strategy academic integrity can be practiced?
 Proper communication with others and specially tutors
 Proper reading and understanding of syllabus
 Searching on internet
 All of the above

Q10. Do obtaining higher marks assist in maintaining academic integrity?
 Yes
 No

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Guerrero-Dib, J.G., Portales, L. and Heredia-Escorza, Y., 2020. Impact of academic integrity on
workplace ethical behaviour. International Journal for Educational Integrity, 16(1),
pp.1-18.
MacLeod, P.D. and Eaton, S.E., 2020. The paradox of faculty attitudes toward student violations
of academic integrity. Journal of Academic Ethics, 18(4), pp.347-362.
Muhammad, A. and et.al., 2020. Factors affecting academic integrity in E-learning of Saudi
Arabian Universities. An investigation using Delphi and AHP. IEEE Access. 8. pp.16259-
16268.
Ramdani, Z., 2018. Construction of academic integrity scale. International Journal of Research
Studies in Psychology, 7(1), pp.87-97.
Sousa, M.J. and Rocha, Á., 2019. Leadership styles and skills developed through game-based
learning. Journal of Business Research, 94, pp.360-366.