Catholic Senior High School Students' Attitude toward Morality of Cheating and Academic Cheating Behaviours

Abstract

The study wanted to determine the relationship between the cognitive and affective attitudes of studentstoward the morality of cheating and their academic cheating behaviors in the classroom. In order to carry out the study, theories were proposed related to the concept of human attitude and human behavior and its relationship, the concept of morality and the attitude of Filipinos toward morality, and the concept of the morality of cheating.Therefore related literature and studies along those concepts were reviewed. To gather the data, validatedquestionnaires were used and in order to interpret the data statistical tools were used such as weighted mean and Pearson r or Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determining the correlation between the two variables. The study found that Senior High School students of Divine Word Colleges in Region I have a high positive cognitive and affective attitude toward the morality of cheating and their negative cognitive and affective attitudes were considered low and moderate. In terms of their cheating behavior, it was found to be low. The study further found acorrelation between positive and negative cognitive attitudes toward the morality of cheating and their cheating behavior. In relation to their affective attitude, it was found that there is a significant correlation between positive affective attitude toward cheating and academic cheating behavior and no correlation between negative affective attitude toward the morality of cheating and academic cheating behavior.