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Ways of cheating adopted by students
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In modern competitive world people are becoming more ambitious to achieve success and to achieve goals they do not hesitate to adopt unfair means. Cheating in examination is one such behaviour which is spreading fast in students. There have been instances where students adopt different ways to cheat in early stage of education and it becomes their...
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... Again, Muralidharan and Gaur (2018) cited Jordan's three categories of cheating at the school level as (i) Neutralized (cheating behaviour that does not harm others), (ii) Semantic differential (positive or negative cheating), and (iii) Other attitude (not classifiable). At the institutional level, according to Muralidharan and Gaur "cheating is an act of lying, deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, or imposition employed to create an unfair advantage often at the expense of others" (p. ...
... The third section of the questionnaire had four items based on Jordan's three categories of cheating as (i) Neutralized (cheating behaviour does not harm others), (ii) Semantic differential (positive or negative cheating), and (iii) Other attitude (not classifiable) (as par the review of Muralidharan & Gaur, 2018) to solicit students' opinion on institutional sensitivity to authentication of WASSCE results. Question items such as: To what extent do you thinking cheating in examination affects your school's reputation? ...
... This affects institutional reputation and believability of examination results. Authorities have to be mindful institutional reputation, sensitivity, and consequences (Muralidharan & Gaur, 2018). Even though the correlation results proved differently, the proposition of Starratt (1994;1990) calling for ethical school building still stands, and that the evidence supported the assumption that schools need to be morally oriented against cheating behaviours. ...
