Academic Integrity in Higher Education: Analysis and Reflection

This report explores the concept of academic integrity, emphasizing its importance in higher education and the implications of academic misconduct. It discusses the significance of academic integrity for students, universities, and employers, highlighting its role in fostering ethical behavior and maintaining credibility. The report also reflects on the steps and challenges involved in producing a game to promote academic integrity, utilizing Gibbs' reflective model to analyze the experience. Furthermore, it identifies key skills developed during the academic year, such as communication, time management, creativity, and teamwork, and emphasizes their importance in avoiding plagiarism and promoting academic success. The report concludes that fostering academic integrity is crucial for the personal and professional development of students and the overall reputation of educational institutions. Desklib provides access to this and many other solved assignments.

Academic Integrity

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Academic integrity.................................................................................................................3
Discussion of importance of academic integrity in higher education....................................3
Discussion of implication of academic misconduct...............................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Reflection of steps to be taken and difficulties to be encounter in producing of game.........5
Reflection of skills learned in academic year and those emphasised on producing game ....6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Academic integrity is describe as demonstration as well as commitment of honest and
moral behaviour in academic purpose. It is required at universities for providing credit to other
person for their scholar work (Abbott, 2021) It is important for students as it helps them to
develop new skills and knowledge. It provide success to students and allow them to get new
achievements. This project report consist description of academic integrity along with its
important in higher education. It includes description of implication of academic misconduct
which create problems for students. It also consist reflection of steps to be taken by a person to
design a game. Additionally, it includes reflection to skills to be developed in academic life of a
person.
TASK 1
Academic integrity
Academic integrity is a commitment and demonstration of ethical,moral as well as honest
behavioural of a person in academic context. It is essential for universities to ensure credit is
given to a person whose content and ideas are used by another person. Ir is important for
acknowledging others and if a person fails to acknowledge other person while using their ideas
than it is taken as plagiarism. It is aim of university to develop new skills, knowledge and
learning in a person (Cole, 2018). It is essential for cited work as well as promoting academic
integrity. Major pillars of integrity includes honest, trust, responsibility, fairness and many more.
Discussion of importance of academic integrity in higher education
Academic integrity is essential for teacher, students and employers which allow them to
maintain integrity and discipline. It is important for various reason which are as follows:
For students: Academic integrity is important for students as it provide them various opportunity
which is important to be success. It also helps them to get good grades in examination and
maintaining ethical behaviour in personal as well as professional life. It helps a person to avoid
negative outcome like failure. Academic integrity helps students for reflecting their morals,
values, integrity, characters as well as credibility. Students which has good academic integrity
will person in more effective manner, dedication.
For University: University is a place where consistent as well as credit worthy values are
delivered to students during their academic life. Different factors are contributing at university

for maintaining academic integrity. Universities has much pressure of society and other people
which make it important for them to maintain academic integrity. In order to maintain position in
competitive marketing environment, universities needs to maintain academic integrity which
helps them to attract more and more people towards them.
For employers: Academic integrity is important at workplace tool which helps employers to
maintain principles as well as values at workplace (Cronan, 2017). At workplace, employees
needs to work with maintaining integrity where they needs to follow guidance of employers.
Discussion of implication of academic misconduct
Academic misconduct is considered as cheating which occur in context of formal academic
exercise. It is important for universities to take all incidences of academic misconduct more
seriously and also needs to ensure all students are working appropriately and efficiently. Some of
implication of academic misconduct is mentioned below:
Social Consequences: Cheating can develop different moral consequences as it develop bad habit
in a person. It also includes devaluation of fairness, integrity as well as hard work. When
cheating become a habit of a person than it indicate their nature (Striepe, 2021).. A person who
has habit of cheating in academic life will also do cheating in personal and professional life. It
can create various serious impact on life as well as action of a person.
Legal Consequences: Teachers provide project to students that can be granted by Universities
and colleges from external sponsors including business, professional organisation as well as
government agencies. It provide different opportunity to student to overcome of problems occur
in life. It is essential for these sponsor to take action against students in order to avoid
plagiarism, falsify and other things (.Eaton, 2020). These action taken by sponsor includes fines,
loss of future assignment and project, lawsuits and others. With action can results in negative
consequences like it ruin image of a person at university.
Loss of intellectual property: There are various academic misconduct which are equivalents with
stealing of property of a person. Academic work is related to music, design, writing and ideas
which is taken as currency of a person and using current of other person without their permission
is taken as intellectual property.

TASK 2
Reflection of steps to be taken and difficulties to be encounter in producing of game
Gibbs model of reflection: It is one of model of reflection which is introduced by Graham
Gibbs in the year 1988 which provide structure for reflecting on learning experience. This
framework allow examination of experience and allow a person to learn as well as plan things.
Different stages included in this model is mentioned below:
Description: For purpose of improving academic integrity, teachers has provide group
assignment to group members. For this assignment, students needs to prepare a game which
helps to improve academic misconduct policy and avoid plagiarism as well as other
misbehaviours of students in their academic life. For purpose of completion of this project,
teachers has provided freedom to students for choosing group members. For completion of this
project, me and some of my friends form a group as we all have required skills for project. In
this, I take initiate work and divide work among group members.
Feeling: I feel different while starting this project as I was happy because I needs to work
with my friends and it is quiet easier for me to cooperate with them (Gewirtz, 2020). But during
this project, one of my friend got sick and out whole planning has fail which create problems for
us. For this, we needs to divide work again and needs to complete work without help of that
friend. At that time, I feel like it is difficult to complete project on due date. But in the end of
project, I was happy as we are able to submit our assignment on time.
Evaluation: In order to design a game for controlling academic misconduct, it is
important to generate ideas (White, 2020). For this, group members provide their ideas for
developing game and among which best ideas is selected for game designing. Including all
members in decision making is best for this projects as it provide variety of idea to us. Problem
in this situation arise with sickness of one of members but our quick action against it helps us to
solve problems. But we are able to complete project on time and teacher is happy with our work.
Analysis: There are various things which gone well in this project and there are
something due to which problems arise. It is quiet difficult for a person to re-plan everything and
due to illness of my friend, I needs to re-plan everything. In this situation, we cannot change
anything and there is no new members is ready to join us. But we manage somehow and
completed project on time (Orr, 2018). Best part about this situation is dedication of group
members for this project as it make their project successful.

Conclusion: There are various new things which I have learned from this situation. There
are some things among it which is useful for me in future period of time (Kwong, 2017)(. It will
helps me in solving problems occur in real life and also allow me to take initiate in different
situation. There are various skills which is to be developed by me during this project, some of
which includes time management, creativity, communication.
Action Plan: If same situation occur in my life again, then I will deal with this situation
with more patience and calmness. It also allow me to be less stresses and allow me to focus on
completion of work. I will also acknowledge group members about complexity of situation and
also ask for suggestion from them. I will also adopt different methods to motivate group
members like I will celebrate small things.
Reflection of skills learned in academic year and those emphasised on producing game
Different skills is required by a person for purpose of developing a game. These skills can
be developed in academic year which helps to avoid plagiarism. Some of these skills developed
by me are as follows:
Communication skill: Communication is process of sharing feelings, ideas, thoughts from one to
another. It can be developed by me while studying academic life with participation of different
activities. It is essential skills in today's time as it provide various opportunity to a person. It
allow a person to express their views and ideas on something. It provide employability to a
person with which they are able to find employment. It is one of skills which helps me to write
all instruction related to game in clear words which can be easily understand by a person.
Time Management: It refers to process of planning and organising of ways in which time is
dividing on specific activities. It allow a person to exercise control over time spent on different
activity and allow to increase efficiency, effectiveness as well as productivity of a person. It
allow a person to save maximum time that can be further invested on productivity time. I
develop time management skills which allow me to save time on unnecessary activity and invest
it further on productive work (Latopolski, 2020). This skill helps me to saves time to invest it on
designing game.
Creativity: Creativity refers to ability to think about a problems, situation or task in different
ways. It is known as ability to use imagination for purpose of generation of new ideas. It allow a
person to solve problems effectively and look things differently. It is one of skills which helps to
develop unique idea for designing game. It provide various academic achievement to a person as

it helps them to handle things differently. It also provide opportunity in finding employment to a
person. In order to design game, we face various difficulties but with help of creativity, we are
able to overcome of effect of problems.
Team work: Team work is another skills which includes collaborative efforts of group members
has are beneficial for purpose of attainment of common goals. It is one of essential skills in life
of a person and can be developed in academic life (Latopolski, 2020). There are different group
assignments and projects are given by a teachers for purpose of developing team work skill. It
allow me and my team to complete project on time.

CONCLUSION
From above mentioned project report, it can be concluded that it is important for students
to develop academic integrity in order to maintain fundamental values and getting success in life.
It is essential for students to develop these skills, learning and knowledge in their academic life
as it make them capable and provide various opportunity to them. It not only ensure personal
development but also professional development of students. It is important for university to
maintain academic integrity at their place as it helps them to improve their international ranking
and allow them to be remain in education industry. Academic integrity also provide benefits to to
employees as it allow them to focus on their work and also make them more responsible. Any
academic misconduct and misbehaviour can create negative impact on a students which can be
related to legal as well as social consequences. Different skills be developed by a person during
their academic life. These skills includes time management, communication, team work and
creativity. It make a person more efficient and allow them to work efficient in order to get
positive outcomes.

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