Roles-based relationship and perfection of academic integrity in universities in Southwestern Nigeria.
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2022
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Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling, Faculty of Education. Obafemi Awolowo University.
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This study identified the types of role-based relationships that exist in universities in Southwestern Nigeria and examined the relationships between students’ socio-demographic characteristics and student-lecturer relationship with their perception of academic integrity. It also determined the relationships between students’ institution type (federal, state and private) and student-lecturer relationship with their perception of academic integrity and investigated the relationship between role-based relationships and student-lecturer relationship with their perception of academic integrity. These were with a view to providing information on types of relationships that could influence academic integrity in universities in Southwestern Nigeria.
The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The population of the study comprised lecturers and students in universities in Southwestern Nigeria. The sample comprised 1800 students and 360 lecturers using multistage sampling technique. Three states were selected using simple random sampling technique. Nine universities were selected using stratified sampling technique with ownership as the basis for selection (three federal, three state and three private). Also four faculties were selected in each of the selected universities through simple random sampling technique. From each of the faculty, two departments were selected using simple random sampling technique. Again 25 students and five lecturers were selected from each department using convenience sampling technique. Six instruments were used to collect data for the study; two self-designed instruments title: Role Based Relationship Scale for Students (RBRSS); Role Based Relationship Scale for Lecturers (RBRSL) and four adapted instruments titled: Student-Lecturer Relationship and their Perception of Academic Integrity Scale for Students (SLRPAISS); Lecturer-Student Relationship and their Perception of Academic Integrity Scale for lecturers (LSRPAISL); Academic Integrity Scale for lecturers (AISL) and Academic Integrity Scale for Students (AISS). Data collected were analysed using percentage counts, rank order, ANOVA, Chi-Square, and Multiple linear regressions.
The results showed the most common role-based relationships of students with a ranking value of project supervision (X̅=2.60), classmate relationships (X̅=2.54), while the most common role-based relationships of lecturers were teaching (X̅=2.82), project supervision (X̅=2.72). The result showed that gender had significant relationship with their perception of lecturers’ academic integrity with a value of .379 at p˂.05 while age had no significant relationship with perception of lecturers’ academic integrity (χ2=7.15; p˃.05), marital status did. Educational levels also had significant relationship with students’ perception of lecturers’ academic integrity (χ2=239; p˂.05). It showed that there is significant relationship between students’ perception of lecturers’ academic integrity and students’ gender, marital status and educational levels. The results further revealed that there is significant relationship between students’ institution types (federal, state and private) and student-lecturer relationship with their perception of academic integrity (F521.0, p˂ .05). The results also revealed that being faith-based universities had no significant relationship with students’ perception of lecturers’ academic integrity as well courses of study had no significant relationship with students’ perception of lecturers; academic integrity (χ2=9.1; p˃.05). The results showed that role-based relationships had significant relationship with academic integrity (F=517.7; p< 0.05) The study concluded that the types of role-based relationships that could influence academic integrity in universities in Southwestern Nigeria are active and passive relationships.
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xiv, 208p.
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Oke, M.A. (2022).Roles-based relationship and perfection of academic integrity in universities in southwestern Nigeria. Department of Educational Foundations and Counselling, Faculty of Education. Obafemi Awolowo University.