Group 6 GAS-C

Practical Research 1

“Perceive Seriousness Of Academic Cheating Among The Junior High

School Students In Immaculate Mary Academy”
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The Researchers:
Alvin Niño M. Nesperos,
Jam Judy Butong,
Rona Carmelle Otum,
Aleah Mae Lacea,
Rodemjen Riah Cosmo,
Wendell Jay Hangad,
John Mark Pamat,
John Christian G. Rubin,
Roy John Maglajos,
Clifford John Cajes,
Harry John Angcahan Bautista,
Mike GB Plaza
 CHAPTER 1

THE PROBLEM AND ITS SCOPE

INTRODUCTION

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Academic Integrity is a core value that a student develops throughout his

academic career. Its underpinned students’ academic works with honesty, trust and

respect. Many academies throughout the world nurtures student’s honesty and integrity,

and some common examples of these are the Military Academies. As we look in todays

society in any given circumstances, we found some individuals tends to be opportunistic

in taking advantage of other people for their own welfare and personal interest. We can

find some people cheating on their taxes, committing plagiarism, and even political

leaders corrupting the funds of the nation. Likewise, in the academy, Academic

Dishonesty or Academic Cheating is amongst of the most fraudulent behavior of students

in any academic institutions which is now becoming a major concern and threat to the

education system of any given school institutions.

This Academic Cheating has been associated with the problems and issues of poor

time management, fear of failures, temptations due to open opportunities, “the everyone

does it” phenomenon, in helping a friend and especially the pressures students receive

from their parents who are expecting for higher grades. In todays society which views

that students need to get high grades in order to acquire a degree for future employment,

financial security and for personal reasons (Choi, 2010; Cohen & Braver, 2003; McCabe,

Butterfield, & Trevino, 2006). Students often believe that they will receive benefits in
future employment for having exceptional grades and they still continue to perceive that

grades are important measures inside and outside the academy which significantly affects

the students. Therefore, it is clear that students are under pressure and are constantly

concerned about the grades they receive from their respective teachers. And these

Academic Dishonesty and Cheating are the reflections of the students needs to get

exceptional grades, which still continue as a threat and serious problem in the academia.

The Academic Cheating is commonly known as the act of academic misconduct,

dishonesty or an academic integrity violation of a student’s attempt to present his or her

own work that he or she has not originally produced misleading or fooling the teacher

into thinking as that students’ own work. With such academic dishonesty of students

begins to have serious consequences, when such consequences are ignored, the number of

students involved in the academic cheating activities increases. Investigators have

suggested direct negative effects of students’ academic cheating to the educational

system, academic outcomes and as well as its negative consequences to the student’s

academic performance on higher levels.

This commonly known as “cheating” comes in many different ways such as the

use of crib notes, directly copying from other student’s work, allowing another student to

copy from one's own work, copying information from other sources without citing the

reference, which is commonly identified as plagiarism. Furthermore, with the

advancement of technology made it easier and more possible at certain times. It is

important to conduct this study considering the current situation of this phenomenon, and

also to better understand the student’s perception and behaviors towards Academic

Cheating.
 The purpose of this study is to find out if there is an Academic Dishonesty among

the Junior High School students in Immaculate Mary Academy and to determine its level

of frequency.

Moreover, quantitative research was selected to provide better and broad

understanding of this multidimensional phenomenon. Therefore, the perception of

Academic Cheating among the Junior High School Students and as well as its negative

consequences must be identified with the quantitative research methods. With this

scenario, the researchers are prompted to explore this topic and to make study, as they

were alarmed with the rise of this phenomenon and were concerned to its negative

consequences to the students and its effects into the educational system. Hence, the

present study wanted to explore the indications of Academic Cheating as a contributor of

unfairness in the grading system as well as its impacts to student’s performance on higher

levels. Since there are limited studies about this, the researchers were motivated to

conduct this study, so as to increase the understanding of young students to demonstrate

academic integrity and honesty in their academic works and performance. The

researchers aimed to find solutions that would be addressed necessarily to minimize the

occurrence of this phenomenon.