Academic Skills: Integrity, Challenges & Game Production Reflection

This report explores academic skills, focusing on the importance of academic integrity in higher education and the implications of academic misconduct. It reflects on the steps taken and challenges encountered during the production of a 'Spin and Win' game, highlighting skills learned during the academic year, such as creativity, presentation skills, numeracy, critical thinking, and problem-solving. The report emphasizes the role of academic integrity in maintaining ethical standards, promoting honesty and fairness, and avoiding unethical activities. It also discusses the legal and academic consequences of misconduct, such as cheating and plagiarism. The 'Spin and Win' game production process involved designing the game, setting rules, and managing game instructions, with challenges including resource arrangement, participant engagement, and maintaining honesty. This document is available on Desklib, where students can find past papers and solved assignments to aid their studies.

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TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
SECTION 1.....................................................................................................................................2
Description of academic integrity:...............................................................................................2
Discussing importance of academic integrity in higher education:.............................................3
Discussing implication of academic misconduct:........................................................................4
SECTION 2.....................................................................................................................................4
Steps taken and challenges encountered in producing the game:................................................4
Skills learned this academic year and used in producing spin and win game:............................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9
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INTRODUCTION
Academic skills are ability of learner allowing them to become reliable for further career
development, these skills are communication, listening, time management and research and
analysis. Every individual need to have basic academic skills which help them to meet the
requirement of professional skills (Bertram Gallant, 2017). This report will discuss academic
integrity and its importance in career pathway. Later this report will discuss academic integrity in
higher education and implication of academic misconduct. Later this report will reflect upon
steps taken and challenges faced during the game. At last this report will discuss skills learned
during academic year and skills which are being sharpen during this game.
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
Description of academic integrity:
Integrity simply means moral code or ethical behaviour of individual, integrity is one of
the most require policy in every organization. Academic integrity allow student to remain in the
area of ethical policy of educational organization, this help student to follow every rules and
regulation of basic integrity in academic session. Integrity not only allow person to act honest,
fairness, respectful and responsible but this also allow them to increase and protect their
reputation from any kind of unethical movement (Guerrero-Dib, Portales and Heredia-Escorza,
2020). Every student have responsibility to respect their teacher and other staff of the
educational organization, this affected their career as well as personal life. It is very clear that
students are power house of ethical behaviour, they are on the way to become professional.
There are some rules of academic integrity, these are:
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Honesty and fairness: honesty in work is one of the most required ethical behaviour from any
individual, academic integrity allow person to become honest towards their work which means
they need to avoid any copy pasting or plagiarise activity in the work. Honesty of student is
biggest concern of every ethical code of conduct which means every student need to be honest
towards their academic session. Student or learner need to remain honest and treat their work
fairly to fulfil the requirement of academic integrity.
Unethical activity: avoiding unethical activities means student or learner need to be careful in
their academic session and need to avoid illegal activity, there are many student who copy their
work from external source. Exam, assignments and report are being simply copied by these
student resulting in failure of academic integrity, this not only affect honest and fairness of work
but this also impact reputation of student in the educational organization.
Discussing importance of academic integrity in higher education:
Academic integrity is fundamental concept of fairly learning, teaching and researching
content required in university, it is very clear that every student or learner have responsibility to
maintain honesty and fairness in the academic session but it is very important for teacher to
maintain high level of professionalism and fairness in the workplace as well (Denisova-Schmidt,
2017). Academic integrity in higher education allow both, student and teacher to work
collectively and effectively to meet the ethical requirement of organization, both teacher and
student have to fairly treat each other to avoid any kind of unethical or illegal activity. Every
educational organization demand their staff to be professional and should follow ethical policy of
organization, they should not take participate in any such illegal or unethical activities conducted
by external group or with student. Increasing reputation of university is further most important
responsibility of both, teachers and student, academic integrity is important in high education
because, there are:
Reputation: maintaining academic integrity allow university, teacher and student to increase and
protect their as well as respect of educational organization. Contribution of teacher’s honesty
allow university to maintain good image in the eyes of people and parents, teacher need to avoid
dishonesty and unfairness in their teaching practice to be safe from destroying academic
integrity.
Responsibility: in higher education, every staff member and learner have several responsibility
which allow them to follow and maintain academic integrity. Teacher have responsibility to look
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after their student and help them fairly in completion of their work, teacher are only source of
learning for a learner which means academic integrity is needed in high education. Teacher have
responsibility to treat student fairly, student have responsibility to respect their teacher and
university have responsibility to look after need to both teacher and student in the academic.
Discussing implication of academic misconduct:
Academic misconduct means illegal action or attempt to clear academic session easily,
many student use third way of passing academic session which lead them to serious problem and
even legal action by the university. Cheating in academic session is strictly prohibited by every
university which means if ay of student was found with misconduct will be suspended from their
education process and will face problem in getting degree in higher education (Awasthi, 2019).
Attempt to gain advantage in higher education lead to impact on career and personal life
development, student need to avoid any misconduct during their academic session which means
they need to avoid plagiarism, copying, cheating, online examination cheating and other kind of
misconduct. There are many university who strictly and permanently suspend degree or course
work of student. Student who pursing professional degree need to be very careful regarding
misconduct because government itself keep eye of academic misconduct. There are certain
implication of academic misconduct, these are:
Legal consequences: academic misconduct can lead student to legal problems which means they
need to face legal action taken by university, there are many university who prohibit any kind of
misconduct and if any of their student found in these activities may face legal action (Sefcik,
Striepe and Yorke, 2019). If student try to break code of conduct of university which means if
they cheat, plagiarize and falsely performed by action then fines, charges and action should be
taken against them. Student should avoid use of any external help that help them in completion
of their assessment.
Academic consequences: academic misconduct impact academic reputation of student during
the session which means if any student found to participate in academic misconduct activity then
they have to face disrespect in front of university and other student.
SECTION 2
Steps taken and challenges encountered in producing the game:
This design of the game is spin and win, this game is most played in many academic
activity which means every student was familiar with the working of this game. At first, I
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believed that spin and win game will be boring and result in failure of the game but after
participation of team one, this game had become more interesting. I took certain steps in this
game such as:
Designing: designing of this game of was most challenging because spin and win require
resources such as wheel used in spinning (MacLeod and Eaton, 2020). I faced difficulty in
arranging resource of this game, arranging same colour card and setting wheel in activity area
was difficult for me. This game was only possible if every team and member of team actively
participate, I faced challenges in arranging and boosting interest of every participant.
Setting rules: I took step in setting rules of the game, these rules were, team will be divided into
4 group including 4 member each group. Member of team will spin the wheel and choose one of
card, if the colour matched then they have to answer few question (Van Laar and et.al., 2017).
The challenges I face here was conducting joyful question, it was very clear that if questions was
not interesting then all group member will be bored which means there was risk of failure just
because of boring question.
Game instruction: 4 member in each group which means there were 4 team playing this game,
monitoring honesty in this game become biggest challenge for me. Many player discarded during
the game because rules of this game was strict and not allowing them to pass the level easily.
Keeping interest level of every player was becoming difficult as majority of player started to
leave this game. I have taken step to overcome this issue in the game by providing one more
chance to losing team. apart from this, I had changed some rules and instruction of this game to
overcome any such difficulty.
Skills learned this academic year and used in producing spin and win game:
During my academic session, I have developed certain skills which allow me to become
more effective in both, career and personal life. I already had some basic skills such as effective
communication skills, active listening skills and critical thinking skills. Apart from these basic
skills, I have learnt some new and effective skills that helped in development of spin and win
game as well, these are:
Creativity: creativity allow person to become more effective in their work, this help them to
make their work more uniqueness which can win the interest of audience. Creativity is very area
skills that not only become beneficial but this also help person to explore wider area of
development (Kurtz and et.al., 2017). I have learned to become creative in my academic session,
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I already had creativity as my strength which allow me to develop spin and win game. This game
was very unique in every way, designing of this game required me creative skills.
Presentation skills: presentation skills is one of the most important skills required in every
student, this skills allow person to present themselves and their work in front of others. I have
presentation skills which I have learned in academic year, this skills help me to represent myself
and my work towards other. I have developed spin and win game which re quire attractive
presentation, it is very clear that student will be confused if presentation of game was not done
perfectly which means I need to look at every weak area of game. Spin and win game was
successful because I have presented it effectively in front of player with my presentation skills.
Numeracy skills: numeracy skills means student must understand number and their value in the
presentation, this skill required fast calculation, effective mathematical solution and counting of
number. I have calculation skills which helped me in developing spin and win game, as this
game was based on scoring and required lots of calculation, I have effectively used by numeracy
skills in this game.
Critical thinking skills: critical thinking skills allow person to critically think solution for any
tough situation faced by them, this skills is most required in many organization. I have critical
thinking skills that helped me to stay active in any tough situation and allow me to keep looking
for effective solution for the problem (Hitchcock, 2018). In development of spin and win game, I
have used critical thinking skills that helped me to carefully examine the outcome of this game.
There were certain risk associated with this game such as risk of failure and risk of misconduct,
with the help of critical thinking skills I have marked those weak area and improved them to
overcome any risk in the game.
Problem solving skills: problem solving skills allow person to solve their problem effectively,
with critical thinking skills, it is very important to have problem solving skills (Carpenter and
Moser, 2020). I have problem solving skills which helped me to solve any problem that arises
before, during and after the game. I have critically analysed every possible problem that could
arrive in the game and developed back up plan for the same, with problem solving skills, I had
produce this game in the academic.
CONCLUSION
This report have discussed academic skills and it importance in academic career of an
individual. Later this report has discussed academic integrity which means moral and ethical
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code which every student need to have in their academic session. Later this report has discussed
importance of academic integrity in higher education, every teacher along with student need to
follow ethical and legal policy set by the university to meet the requirement of academic
integrity. Later this report have discussed academic misconduct and discussed its implication.
Reflection on spin and win game was provided with identification of challenges and problem
occurring in the game has being discussed. At last this report have discussed skills required in
development of spin and win game.
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