BMP3003 - Game Design for Academic Integrity & Avoiding Plagiarism

This project outlines the design of a game aimed at helping students develop strategies for avoiding plagiarism and academic misconduct, thereby fostering academic integrity. The game, titled "Capturing the Plagiarism," presents students with questions about academic misconduct and plagiarism within a game format, where correct answers earn points contributing to assignment submission. The design incorporates elements of fun and engagement to enhance knowledge retention and ethical academic behavior. The poster presentation further explains the game's instructions, the importance of academic integrity, reflection on skills used, and a list of references. The primary goal is to address the critical issue of plagiarism in academic work and promote a culture of honesty and trust within educational institutions, leveraging game-based learning to achieve these objectives. Desklib provides access to similar assignments and study tools for students.

Further Academic Skills
INTRODUCTION
Academic misconduct refers to the activity where the students tend to copy and paste
the content, idea and thoughts of other student’s work and also present it by their own
name and due to which it leads to bring plagiarism in their work. For this, in order to
neglect plagiarism from their work, a specific game is being developed with the
objective of neglecting plagiarism.
Game design
Plagiarism is undertaken as the major problem as it can become barrier in terms of
knowledge development of students as they leas to compromise their working style
that tends to become barrier considering the knowledge and learning of students.
Therefore, it is identified that through game, students tend to get fast results that can
foster the academic integrity within universities by undertaking the design of game
including the effective strategies to eliminate misconduct and plagiarism.
Capture the plagiarism:
• It is undertaken as the type of fun game which is useful in order to identify
plagiarism from the assignments and work of students and also tends to develop
understanding regarding the academic integrity by developing knowledge about
academic integrity.
• Therefore, it is helpful in terms of describing the significant features which are
useful in identifying the morale of students that helps in neglecting the unethical
practices to develop academic knowledge and benefits.
Design the model of game:
• The game is called Capturing the Plagiarism because it leads to the capture of
plagiarism that pupils copy from other assignments.
• Each red point square in this game contains a question about academic misconduct
or plagiarism, which students must answer in order to submit their work.
Instructions for playing the game
• For security reasons, students must log in with their personal id and
password before beginning the game.
• Students must roll dice in order to get at a specific numbers.
• After they reach the specified number, they will be asked a question, which
they must correctly answer in order to receive points that will assist them in
submitting their assignment.
• The question has appropriate answers, and correcting each option earns the
student a point.
• Individuals should not exit the game without receiving feedback on their
understanding of academic misconduct, as this will prevent students from
submitting their assignments.
• Furthermore, each time a student logs into their portal, the question will be
updated.
Importance of academic integrity
Academic integrity refers to the general characteristic that is useful in
demonstrating good academic knowledge by refraining from engaging in
unethical academic behavior and assignments. It shows the essential idea of the
teaching and learning process, which is that this characteristic is lacking in both
students and teachers, and it has a few pillars, which are as follows:
• Honesty
• Trust
REFERENCES
• Slicker and et. al., 2021. Parental involvement during the kindergarten transition and children’s early reading and mathematics
skills. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 55, pp.363-376.
• Givord, P., 2020. Are students’ career expectations aligned with their skills?.
CONCLUSION
Therefore, it has been determined that game design
is linked to the growth of academic misconduct and
plagiarism knowledge. Students also use a variety of
methods to do their job without having to put in any
effort or expertise. It is more vital for institutions to
increase knowledge and awareness about the need of
avoiding plagiarism in this setting.