ACADEMIC CHEATING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR HOME ENVIRONMENT

Journal Title: IJAR-Indian Journal of Applied Research - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 6

Abstract

The present study was undertaken to study the academic cheating among secondary school students in relation to their home environment. Academic cheating was treated as dependent variable whereas home environment was treated as an independent variable. Descriptive survey method was used for the present study. Random sampling technique was used to select the sample for the present study. The sample comprised of 220 secondary school students of private schools afliated to Central Board of School Education (CBSE). Academic cheating scale by Kalia and Kirandeep (2001) and Home environment inventory by Mishra (2012) were used. Mean, SD, 't' test and Coefcient of correlation (r) were used to analyse the data. The ndings of the study revealed that the academic cheating of male and female secondary school students did not differ signicantly. Signicant difference was found in the academic cheating of rural and urban secondary school students. It was also found that the home environment of male and female secondary school students did not differ signicantly. Signicant difference was found in the home environment of rural and urban secondary school students. It was found that there exists signicant relationship between home environment and academic cheating of secondary school students.

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Dr. Neeru Rathee, Dr. Seema

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Dr. Neeru Rathee, Dr. Seema (2017). ACADEMIC CHEATING AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RELATION TO THEIR HOME ENVIRONMENT. IJAR-Indian Journal of Applied Research, 7(6), 29-31. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-459179