Academic Integrity Report: Importance in Higher Education (2024)

This report provides a comprehensive overview of academic integrity within the context of higher education. It begins by defining academic integrity and highlighting its fundamental values, such as honesty, trust, fairness, respect, and responsibility. The report emphasizes the crucial role of academic integrity in fostering learning, research, and the development of new ideas. It then delves into the importance of academic integrity for students, universities, and the generation of new knowledge. The report analyzes the implications of academic misconduct, detailing the various forms it can take and the negative consequences for students, universities, and the broader economy. The report describes the steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing a game designed to teach academic integrity. It also identifies the skills learned during the academic year and those emphasized during game production, including creativity, analytical thinking, teamwork, academic knowledge, design skills, question-forming skills, and knowledge of game trends. The report concludes by summarizing the key findings and reiterating the importance of academic integrity in promoting ethical behavior and fostering a culture of honesty and trust within higher education.

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Academic integrity.......................................................................................................................3
the importance of academic integrity in higher education...........................................................4
For new ideas...............................................................................................................................4
Implications of academic misconduct.........................................................................................5
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
The steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing the game..........................................5
Skills learned in the academic year and those emphasized in producing game..........................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
Books and Journal........................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is the concept which set the values and putting those values into
activity by being loyal in the academic work. In the other terms academic integrity is the
fundamental in order to learn and teach or investigate about the something. This also gives
permission he students and the individual to develop new ideas knowledge in information in
order to acknowledging the work. This report is going to conduct a description about the
academic integrity and their importance in the Education University. Also, it going to analyze
several implications of academic and also about the inappropriate conduction of the academic
integrity which has been analyzed in the several cases ( Sheard, 2016). In task to the report is
going to conduct several steps that are undertaken by an individual while protecting and
developing a game of academic integrity. After that there are various skills that are developed by
the academic year and also during the developing of the game.
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Academic integrity
Integrity is the concept in order to learn teach in investigate about the several knowledge
and information .s academic integrity format the student's or any individuals to develop and build
new ideas and information about the topic in order to acknowledge in the work. There are five
fundamental values of academic integrity which is honesty trust fairness respect in responsibility
for courage in order to perform the academic integrity. It is ethical practices or policy of
academic that helped the educational values with the support of attitudes like avoidance of
contract cheating and also help them to support maintenance about the academic standards with
the appropriate honesty and academic behavior. Any kind of academic writing the efforts of the
writer is matters a lot and there are no writer which have right to cheat or copy on their academic
writing because it is against the policy (Nesterova, 2019). To protect and to prevent the rights of
the writer’s academic integrity develop several policies and academic for Ethical practices in
order to maintain the code of conduct. The grandfather of academic integrity is Don McCabe
United States of America. The term academic integrity is popular by this person. There are
various significance of academic Scholars like Bretag of Australia, Sarah Elaine Eaton of
Canada, Catherine Ellis of Australia and many more. Academic integrity for the student's means
to develop and to make them more effective policies and practices in order to learn about the
values which helped them to being honest in the academic work at the University. It also engages
several activities like being fair to the others not Biased and takes much Responsibility in order
to learn new techniques.

the importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity is very important part of Higher Education. As it support the students and the
individual in several way in order to make them more confident and successful about the
information and also help them to learn several things about their forces. There are several
benefits and advantage of academic integrity in context of the education. In academic integrity
has several significance and importance is depending on the individuals that are mentioned
below:
For students
Academic integrity support the students to give them a best possibility in order to accomplish
their goals and objectives in a particular time period and get more success with appropriate
behaviour and positive attitude (Onyebueke, 2020). It is also very required and important for
them because it support them to neglect in appropriate consequences like feeling in the silent or
being informed by the university or any college to leave them. It is very effective procedure as it
support the students to get more opportunities and information about the degree which they have
give their efforts in order to make their future so bright.
for university
When the students of the university follow the effective policies and ethical practices of
academic integrity then they will get more gems stones from their University. As University
have much appropriate and effective knowledge of the degree so they provide much amended
and effective information to them. It also supports the university to become more effective with
more appropriate and effective students at their University. Academic integrity in hands that
decorum of the university and also enhance the confident and consistency in their workplace.
Academic integrity teaches them about how to maintain decorum and how to maintain honesty
with appropriate behavior. That is why the University granted the issue of academic misconduct
on a very serious manner.
For new ideas
Academic integrity also includes several identification of sources in order to to developing new
ideas. The conduct identification of sources in a very appropriate and effective manner in the
academic assessment that is very important and required part in order to get success and develop
more amended and innovative ideas. These sources support and person to to done the work and
influence several new ideas in order to operate the activity in a very effective manner. Sourcing
is the concept that provides a appropriate information and credit to the individual whose
outcomes and information has been used in the assessment. It also caters new creation and
technology to the person for their upcoming future because it represent that the individuals have
a good skills and understanding power in order to use the material and sources.

Implications of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct is the term which Edward to the activities and the functions that are
undertaken on the students who goes against the policies and regulations of any university in the
terms of academic writing. Academic misconduct is a condition or is the circumstances of
academic dishonesty or any fraud or breach of academic integrity in the particular university or
in the organizations. The academic misconduct is a very e major and state issue for the university
and for the teacher as well as for the students ( Eaton, 2020). Is very required by to person to
face who is engaged in the academic misconduct in order to identify the best behavior. These
activities and actions can engage loss of future projects because it lose the trust and honesty from
them and also laws future projects from the University hide because of the miss conduct an
inappropriate behavior. University are much state about the academic misconduct behavior
because it can create impact on their future growth and on their reputation of the university. The
misbehavior and the misconduct in the academic integrity is not good for the students because
it's create impact on their personality and on their confidence level and also given their life and
their upcoming opportunities in order to make their career bright. This will also create impact on
their information and their skills that is much required to acknowledge the degree and any
opportunities for the upcoming days (Skorin, 2019). If it can be analyzed in the economic term
then it also create impact on the or it causes under the production of the information and
knowledge as it is the occupation of Professor in order to develop the knowledge of the student
but which is not attend by the students that create impact on the economy of the country.
TASK 2
The steps taken and difficulties encountered in producing the game
There are several steps that has been undertaken to develop the game of academic integrity.
There are various questions that are asked by the students in order to identify their response
about the game . for this aim there is a requirement to produce or develop a questionnaire that is
required to be accomplished or acknowledged by the students. Order to conduct the question it is
much required for the investigator to conduct the questionnaire in the form of closed ended
questions and are required to take care of and make sure that the question iron does not contain
any explanation about the answer. This strategy needed a appropriate investigation of the
students and about their academic integrity and about their academic mis behavior that has been
conducted and followed in the university. The further step is technical member that are much
accountable and responsible for preparing the panel according to the responsibility and the
directions that are provided to them. These activities needed appropriate and amended depth
knowledge about the technology that developed several difficulties in designing of the game.
Moreover there is a extreme requirement in order to develop the game that should be e is
designing of a game in a very simple and appropriate manner but the infrastructure and the
Technologies should be very innovative and attractive so that they can attract someone. The
game required to be design in a very appropriate manner so that the person can understand the

game in a very easy manner and the university does not have to give so much effort towards the
game and to identify the problems.
Skills learned in the academic year and those emphasized in producing game.
There are several skills which are required by the university in order to produce the game. the
game which is " Bug Burst" is design in order to identify the act of progress and analyze
different ways in order to avoid it (Singh and Rai, 2021). The major purpose of this game is to
make the students understand about the act of organism and their consequences. This game
includes 5 players where a digital screen represents some location of the university. So the
players are required to answer the questions and the answer should correct at least two answers
which allowed the player to process further. In case of wrong answer the players will be
disqualified and displayed the right answer. So in order to conduct the game and question the
students need some skills which are mentioned below:
Creativity: It is very required for the students to think more creative in order to gain knowledge
about the game and make the game creative by their effective thinking capability.
Analytical thoughts there require you to identify and define the problems in a very appropriate
manner so that they can develop and find the solution in a very minimum time of period.
Team working ability they must be capable to cope up with the theme in order to get
appropriate and amended ideas about the game and any solution of the problems. They should
have the quality to motivate their team in order to get more success.
Academic knowledge: they are required to you have academic knowledge in practices in order
to operate at the University. Academic knowledge needed information about the ethical behavior
and activities which are conducting by the individuals.
Designing skills: if the person has the basic designer skills in order to develop a layout which
makes the individuals presentation much smoother and shows the creativity then it will create
positive impact on the person and on the particular thing which are developed by them.
Question forming skills: Questions forming skill is the major tea in order to gain more
information without facing any interpersonal communication failure (Sopova, 2020). Is very
required for the individual to make appropriate questions which is easy to understand by the
individuals so that they can give answer of the prospective questions.
Knowledge in game trends: If any individual is making out developing a game then they should
have knowledge about the cloud gaming cross platform play about the Augmented reality
gaming or about the several Technologies which are required for developing the games and
much popular trends in the video gaming industry.

CONCLUSION
From the above mentioned report it has been analyzed and concluded at from the above
mentioned report it has been analyzed and concluded that academic integrity is much important
concept that are required to be e taken by the every University and students in their education
system. There are several steps that are taken by the university in order to maintain the academic
integrity in the university and avoid the misconduct activities and implication at the University.
By the use of came there several questions which are held by the University to identify the
concept of academic integrity .s there are also several skills which are required by the students in
order to develop the effective game.

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