Introduction
The ethical policy regarding academia is known to be academic integrity. Late Don McCabe helped in popularizing the name and he was also called the ‘grandfather of academic integrity’. The meaning of academic integrity is ignoring cheating as well as plagiarism. The institutes for education founded it. The practice of academic integrity is mainly done within the institutes that are educational.
The representation of the academic integrity is made within honor codes and is also taught in the classes for ethics. There are several websites, which possess sections exclusively for academic integrity that help in defining the term in accordance to the certain institution. The code of honor helps in the improvement as well as honesty for the students and the credit is given to the people writing it. The teachers along with the students get help in the creation of a pledge of honor, which help in allowing them to possess severity regarding punishments for those committing dishonesty regarding academy. The pledge of honor goes through creation before the assignment is being assigned and it requires for reading as well as signature, through which it will be shown that there is agreement from the students for not attempting for violation of the rules.
The game here is over the board with four segments that are colored, that includes yellow, red, green and blue. The players take token individually for residing within the base of the home before the game is started. In order to begin the game, the dice has to be rolled by every player individually and the player getting highest number will be beginning the game.
In this paper, a report will be provided regarding academic integrity and its significance regarding higher education. The steps that are taken will be reflected along with the emphasis in the production of the game.
Significance of Academic Integrity Regarding Higher Education
There are various reasons regarding the significance of possessing academic integrity. The meaning of keeping academic integrity in possession is gaining trust from others. The people that are to be dealt with will have the knowledge that they can have trust over the person for doing the correct thing as well as the behavior remains persistent regarding the belief of trust. Furthermore, trust is among core factors for a leader being successful. This help the every individual for developing betterment in reputations with the qualities of honesty, fairness as well as trustworthy. People who achieved success regarding their business involves in understanding the advantages of integrity.
The community of academy along with the community of business is on the basis of capability of possessing among within the community. Hence, the development of ethical habits while pursuing higher studies will help the students during joining jobs and facing issues related to ethics.
Possessing academic integrity is significant as value is provided by it as per degree. The preference of employers is hiring those graduates, who possess integrity. They prefer investing in the development of human capital for someone, who possess influence with positivity within the company or the organization as well as someone, who will be possess perfection in carrying out the mission for the company.
Lastly, possessing the academic integrity is also essential as it helps in having peace within mind with the knowledge of doing the correct thing and acting with persistency as per the beliefs of academic integrity.
Implications Regarding Misconducting Academy
The obvious implications for academic misconduct or dishonesty include the penalties that can be imposed by the university over the student involved in the misconduct.
As per discussions the moral implication for cheating includes the nature of forming a habit in cheating as well as its disvalue regarding integrity, hard work and fairness. The nature of making charting a habit proves that people cheating in activities regarding academics, makes the habit on a continuous basis in the workplace, family, friends as well as other factors of life. This particular attitude has the possibility of being harmful for the person doing this along with the people getting affected by it.
- Losing property intellectually
Academic misconduct including plagiarism holds the same position as the stealing properties of people. A work with originality made by someone is termed as the currency of that specific person and when someone make use of that work without permission, the person creating the work tend to loose his original property, recognition and many more things.
Assessment with Inaccuracy
Whenever, academic activities are plagiarized by the students, the instructors or the professors find difficulty in making assessments regarding the performance of those particular students or do evaluation of the knowledge and skills possessed by them regarding the specific field. As an outcome, credentials can be granted by the universities to the not deserving students that have the possibility of possessing ramifying within the workplace.
Students committing acts regarding the activities of academics go through credentials with the confirmation of successful confirmation of the program when they have done just the opposite, will result in serious implications within the workplace. For instance, if credentials are derived by people for practicing medicine, law as well as engineering by misconducting academics, safety of the pubic as well as welfare, will have the possibility of jeopardizing.
The concern of the practicality that impose impact over the employers, make an ultimate impact over the alumni. If a person is hired and he derived the credentials through misconduct, then the incompetence of that person will provide reflection over the alma mater-a situation of the person, which has the possibility of hurting the prospect of employment for that individual.
Implications That are Legal
There are times when students can be involved by the faculty of the institution in projects, which are granted by the institution or the university through sponsors externally. This is done for providing opportunities to the students to work with on issues and problems in real. When students go for plagiarism, cheating, fabrication or falsify in specific projects, the sponsors have the option of taking legal actions against the specific institution. The actions are inclusive of fines, loss in projects in the long run for the institution. These mentioned actions are serious consequences and implications and they have the power of ruining the reputation of the institution along with the loss in opportunities for every student and their future within the institution.
Other Implications
After all the mentioned implications and the consequences, if there is continuation of academic misconduct and dishonesty from the student, then in this case the duty of the educators is taking the help of the police rather than giving them education regarding academic misconduct. The environment for education like this involve in stifling the enthusiasm of the educator along with sapping the energy in order to interact with the students through productivity.
Self-esteem of the Student
People or say students who involve themselves in continuous plagiarism as well as cheating can possibly get away with it and feel proud of it, however, in the future will be feeling guilty along with suffering from self-esteem on lower basis. Loss in self-respect has the possibility of leading to the large number of other issues and problems, which includes facing challenges and difficulties in careers, challenges faced within the family as well as other various factors of life.
Though, the thought of cheating and plagiarism is of no harm for some people, and the penalties will be giving its impact over the student potentially, it is very necessary that they understand the serious implications and consequences for the academic misconduct and dishonesty along with possessing the ramifications both personally as well as on social basis.
Steps Taken During the Production of the Game
The game is played over a board that has four colored segments i.e. red, blue, yellow and green. Tokens have been provided among the players individually, who reside within the base of the home before starting the game.
The game will be played with the help of a rolling dice. The aim is completing the entire lap with the token through the board and getting back at the base before the opponents. The player completing the lap and returning to the base at the first will win the game.
In order to begin the game, the devices will be rolled by the players and the player getting the highest number will begin it. The players left behind will have to play in accordance with the number derived by them after rolling the dice. The player deriving the least number will be the last person playing.
After the order regarding the players are determined, the dice will have to be rolled by the starter for starting to move, however, at that stage the player has to answer a question that is in relation to the academic integrity correctly, and then only he can move forward. If the player does not give the correct answer, then the chance will go to the next person playing.
The difficulty in the game is that when one payer is rolling the dice and landed his piece of game over the other players’ piece of game, the other player will have to go back to his base and begin his game from the start.
The challenges that are encountered within the game is that, the players had to be chosen as per their academic skills and it had to be made sure that they don’t try to do cheating during the game. And to ensure this, the topic of academic integrity was chosen for answering the questions during the game, so that the when answering the questions they realize the importance of academic integrity and impose it within the game.
Conclusion Including the Skills Learned During the Game and Regarding Academic Integrity
Possessing the skill of integrity is of great use and it helps in gaining trust from others. Academic integrity in education makes assurance to the educators to trust the student. Whenever a student is taking the help of cheating as well as plagiarism, he is leaning over the failure of his career in the long-run. Academic integrity will also the student to work in the organization, where the executives of the business can trust him regarding the projects.
Here, during the production of the game, the players were suggested that they maintain the integrity academically and understand the importance of it. Thus, the chosen topic for asking the questions was the same. This will help the players to play the game with a fresh and peace mind and thy will not have to take the help of cheating in order to win the game.
The meaning of keeping academic integrity in possession is gaining trust from others. The people that are to be dealt with will have the knowledge that they can have trust over the person for doing the correct thing as well as the behavior remains persistent regarding the belief of trust. Furthermore, trust is among core factors for a leader being successful. This help the every individual for developing betterment in reputations with the qualities of honesty, fairness as well as trustworthy. There are implications for academic misconduct or dishonesty, which include the penalties that can be imposed by the university over the student involved in the misconduct.
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