PERCEPTION OF ETHICS AND INTEGRITY IN EXAMINATION CONDUCT AMONG BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS IN KWARA STATE

Abstract

The study was carried out to examine the perception of ethics and integrity in examination conduct among business
education lecturers. Three research questions were raised for the study and three hypotheses were tested at 0.05
level of significance. The study adopted a descriptive survey design and the population of the study was made up of
71 lecturers in the department of business education in Colleges of Education and Universities and lecturers of
Office Technology and Management (OTM) in Polytechnics. Sample and sampling technique was not considered
necessary since the population is manageable. The instrument used for the study was structured questionnaire
validated by experts. A reliability test was conducted with the use of Cronbach Alpha which yielded reliability
coefficient values of 0.76, 0.81, and 0.79 respectively and was considered adequate. Mean rating was used to
answer the three research questions while Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) statistics at 0.05 levels of significance was
used to test the null hypotheses. It was revealed that having academic integrity is important for several reasons, this
include; having academic integrity means that others can trust you. The people with whom you deal with know that
they can rely on you to act honestly and to do what you say you will do. In reality the three hypotheses tested were
not rejected. It was recommended among others that; there is need for proper management of examination right
from the time of its construction, through other stages. It was also recommended that Business education lecturers
need to encourage academic integrity among staff and students of the department to serve as a good example to the
entire school.