Academic Integrity: Importance, Implications, and Reflection Report

This report delves into the critical concept of academic integrity within the context of higher education. It begins with an introduction defining academic integrity and subsequently explores its significance in fostering ethical learning environments. The report then thoroughly examines the implications of academic misconduct, such as plagiarism, fabrication, and cheating, and their detrimental effects on students, institutions, and the broader academic community. Section 2 reflects on the process of developing a game, including the challenges faced in areas like graphic design and game mechanics, as well as the skills acquired, like writing, IT, communication, and research. The report concludes by summarizing the key takeaways and emphasizing the importance of maintaining academic integrity for personal and societal development.

Academic Integrity

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..............................................................................................................................................3
SECTION 1.................................................................................................................................................3
Explain the importance of all academic integrity in the higher education................................................3
Illustrate all the implications of academic misconduct............................................................................4
SECTION 2.................................................................................................................................................5
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game.......................5
Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing your
game........................................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...........................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCE..............................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is the ethical concept which helps how to maintain the moral values in all the
academic areas and work. It helps out to provide the educational institutes to maintain the moral
attitudes in their fundamental learning by creating fair and transparent ideas of knowledge
(Mentzelopoulos, and Zakynthinos, 2017. It provides the unauthorised information to be
maintained and characterised for all the misconduct that has been maintain. Academic integrity is
an important area for all the students in the educational sector so that they can work in proper
authenticate matter without any misconduct. This report will cover the importance of academic
integrity in all the educational sectors and with that the implications that are being needed in
academic misconduct. Further it will also deal with the reflection about the skills that are needed
in development of producing a game and the difficulties that are being faced.
MAIN BODY
SECTION 1
Explain the importance of all academic integrity in the higher education.
Academic integrity is an important area that helps how to maintain the honest and moral
attitude towards the educational sectors through which the standards of learning can be
maintained in the community and also the students will get the positive approach towards their
learning experience. It helps out to maintain the learning, research work and all the teaching
experience to serve the positive attitude (Douglass,and Green-Weir, 2021). As for Academy
integrity it is important that there should not be any misconduct and for all they had education
sectors some of the major importance of academic integrity is as follow:
 It helps out to maintain the goodwill of all the educational areas in the community which
creates a positive impact on the students and motivates him towards the place where they
used to study.
 It helps out the students for the future goals as they will develop the moral attitude,
honesty and also get the life lessons by adapting it in their lifestyle.

 Through Academy integrity all the students and the teachers used to get proper guidance
in the training through which they used to develop a good practice regarding the
academic areas in maintaining the integrity (Hammersley, 2020).
 As the violation of any such activity used to create a negative impact on the student as
they will feel demotivated if they try to do a hard work. It lacks out the opportunity of all
the students who used to take their educational degree with all their betterment and hard
work and also affect the community through their fundamental values and activities in the
university. It is important that academic integrity will help out to gain the advancement
for all the educational areas (Plessis, I., 2019).
 It turns out to develop a positive attitude in all the students and also build confidence in
them regarding their future development and career.
Thus, academic integrity helps out the students to be a better person and also to gain a
positive approach towards society by being honest and it also create a good reputation of all the
educational sectors in the mind of the student and all the communities. It develops success area
by moral advocates in the student by building them with ethical values and promoting them
towards the integral approach in the environment (Zhen, J., 2019).
Illustrate all the implications of academic misconduct
Educational institutions need to provide proper implications by applying academic
integrity in their moral and educational areas. Academic misconduct serves out to implicate an
effect on the negative environment there are various implications they are like plan cheating,
fabricating of data and many more (Abdi, and et. al., 2021).
Academy misconduct is mainly been done when the person used to do any false evolution
and any negative thing by unfair means and game in their academy performance As misconduct
used to create a negative approach in the society.. It mainly includes some of the issues which
are like:
 Plagiarism: This is merely copying any individuals ideas, thoughts and the writing skills.
It mainly covers to take the credit or someone else ideas on their own name. This
involves in effect on the person’s Private life as there is the original content of the writer
is being taken by some other person and no credit is given to the original writer.

 Fabricating the Academy records: It mainly includes the fabrication of data that is being
used by the university for their own use and for the student savings where the documents
are being forged and being made for their own use that results to a misrepresentation and
concealment of important documents (Huberts, and van Rijswoud, 2019).
 Falsification of records: This mainly means all the materials that are being given to the
university at the time of enrolment are false and that can result out to remove the
admission of the student it is mainly the misrepresentation on behalf of student about
their personal academic records.
 Cheating: This is the usual form of academic misconduct which is being done by
students at the time of examination as a try to copy the work that is being written by
someone else. It affects the person ad there variable methods through which the student
loose confidence in their educational institution(Farina, 2017).
Thus, All such Academy misconduct used to create a negative impact of the university and
also on the student and there will be charging heavy penalties on the students on all such
activities as it can affect the carrier of the individual and other than that there are various
consequences of such activities which are like:
 It mainly demotivate the student being enrolled in that university as a person who is
doing hard work is not being noticed in all the opportunities are being taken by the
student through dishonest opinion. It affects the learning environment (Gooch, P.W.,
2019).
 The university is also being affected by all such unethical practises as it creates a and fair
in my environment in the staff and also the teachers as they have to face the emotional
areas of well-being and distress through which there will be a lack of trust between
individuals who are being working and also the student who are being studying in that
area (Schiff,and Steele, 2017).

SECTION 2
Reflect on the steps you have taken, and difficulties encountered in producing the game.
I had decided to make a game in my graduation period through which are used to prevent
the education institutions from all the academic misconduct. The game will thereby cover all the
opportunities through which the students and all the individuals will be get aware about the
issues that being happen from the academic misconduct and how to remove the plagiarism and
such misconduct from our daily basis environment as it creates a negative impact on the society.
While making the game I faced so many difficulties and some of them are like:
 The first and foremost problem which I face was about the graphic designing as I was not
being aware about the graphics of the game and I have no knowledge about the IT areas
in scale so it is difficult for me to maintain a proper shape for the game. But I try to
produce the game by maintaining the academic integrity in all the areas.
 Other problem which I face was the assembling of game as I have no adequate
knowledge about implementing proper functions through which a game can be
assembled. I was not being a bit aware about the ideas through which the games can we
maintain in a proper way and the tactics that are to be used while assembling it. I took the
help of my teachers as they helped me out to reach to the final goals and also maintained
me to reach towards the targets.
 The other challenge I face was about preparing the rules for the games through which it
can be regarded as a fun activity which will involve the interest of the students and also
give a lesson through which they will able to know about the academic misconduct. In
making a questionnaire it was difficult for me to make proper serving of questions in a
framed manner.
 Lastly, It was difficult for me to prepare the rules for the games as which is the most
difficult task for all the game it is important to properly allocate the rules and which are
easily being understood to all the individuals were learning and playing and also provides
a serious message about the academic misconduct.

Reflect on the skills you have learned this academic year and those emphasized in producing
your game.
Through this game the major thing is I came to learn about the academic misconduct and
the ways through which I can remove it also got the opportunity to develop some skills in myself
for all the future advancement they were various skill that has been developed in me while
producing the game which are mentioned below:
 Writing skill: As while forming the game I came to know that it is important to maintain
writing skill as for preparing the questionnaire and I try to frame a question by various
multiple-choice areas and it enhance my writing skills for the future development and
upcoming projects.
 IT skills: Earlier before I made this game I have no knowledge about the IT areas in
graphic designing I took diploma course through which I managed to maintain a proper
effective design and the graphics for this game through which a better outcome can be
raised. This helps me out to enhance my IT skills and also for future developments.
 Communication skills: As the scheme is not an individual task and I found it difficult to
assemble it properly so for that I try to connect with all my fellow members teachers in
order to take proper guidance and also being able to know how I can reach the team
mates in an effective manner to build the confidence in myself this helps out me to
enhance my communication skills in better way and also guided me in proper manner.
 Research skill: While making this game I had done so much of research regarding
Academy miss conduct and how to remove plagiarism from all such activities this
enhanced my research skills as now I am able to do the research for properly with the
help of teachers I came to get this facility and it will help me for my future goals.
All such skills help me out to make myself improved and enhance in a better way and
also to create a positive attitude in the society regarding at academic integrity. I also try to
maintain such skills in my behaviour approach and also this creativity in all such innovative
games and techniques helps me out to maintain a better personality in myself and a positive
attitude towards the ethical areas. I didn’t complete knowledge about the IT skills which will
help me out in future and this game will be a fun activity with their lesson to avoid Misconduct.

CONCLUSION
From this above report it can be concluded that academic integrity plays important role in
the educational areas and also helps out to build a trust and fair environment in the human
personality. It serves out to promote academic integrity and also to avoid the implications and
miss conducts. Plagiarism, fabrication of data etc are some miss conduct that has been taken
place in academic areas and create a negative impact on students. Furthermore it is also analysed
that it helps out to adapt certain skills in the personality.
REFERENCE
BOOKS
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Douglass, R.L. and Green-Weir, R., 2021. WHO SHOULD POLICE SCHOLARLY
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Farina, J., 2017. Academic Integrity Policy Committee Report 10.13. 2017
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JOURNALS
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