STRATEGIES FOR PROMOTING ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AS PERCEIVED BY TEACHERS IN OGBOMOSO METROPOLIS
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2019-01
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Department of Social Sciences Education, Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
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The impact of the increasing attainment of educational qualification is not well felt in Nigerian society. For academic qualification of citizens to impact positively in the society, the attainment must be through decent, acceptable standard, just and honest means. The role of teachers in promoting academic integrity cannot be overemphasized. This investigation therefore focused on teachers’ perception on strategies for promoting academic integrity among secondary school students considering the extent to which the variables of age, gender, educational qualification, teaching experience and religion moderate respondents’ perception. The study adopted the descriptive survey to sample the views of 367 respondents out of which 285 copies of the measure returned were viable for analysis. Simple and stratified random sampling techniques were used to pick out of the entire population of secondary school teachers in both private and public schools in the metropolis. Data collected were analysed using rank order analysis, t-test and Analysis of Variance statistics. The outcome of the study revealed that enlightening students on academic integrity during orientation and on daily basis, ensuring that teachers depict academic honesty by serving as role models to students, encouraging hard work among students among others are strategies that can promote academic integrity. Respondents did not vary in their perception on the basis of age, gender, academic qualification, teaching experience and religion. Counselors should therefore support teachers in performing their roles in promoting academic integrity through sensitization and organization of workshops and conferences.
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Empirical Study
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Academic integrity,, secondary school students, strategies for promoting academic integrity,, teachers,, Ogbomoso