Lacking the virtue of honesty in students' learning

Abstract

This research was aimed to study the types of lacking the virtue of honesty in students' learning and the relation between variables of persons and students' characteristics and the types of lacking the virtue of honesty in students' learning. This study was descriptive research. The target subject was 389 students of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. The research instrument was questionnaire survey. Data were analyzed through use of percentile, average, standard deviation, and Chi-square. The results were as follow: 1.1/3 of the third year students of the Faculty of Liberal Arts were female. The grade point average (GPA) was 2.81. 2.Types of lacking the virtue of honesty of students' learning in subjective norms, the subjects disagreed at a low level (x =4.41). As for attitude toward lacking virtue of honesty in learning, the subjects disagreed at a low level (x =5.02).as for the perception of the virtue of honesty control ,the subjects disagreed at a low level (x =4.67).As for the intention to be dishonest in learning ,the students disagreed at a low level (x =4.63). A quarter of students (24.4%) has never lacked the virtue of honesty in doing tests. Nine tenths of students (87.4%) copied their class excercises or passed them among friends. A quarter of students (28.8%) has never cheated in doing class reports, and a quarter of students (24.55) has never been in lacking the virtuous state. 3.The study of the relation among variables revealed that there was a significant difference at .01 level between persons variables -years of study and GPA and subjective norms variables -attitude toward lacking the virtue of honesty in learning, perception of the virtue of honesty control, intention of not lacking the virtue and the frequency of behaviors of lacking the virtue.