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

The study wanted to determine the relationship between cognitive and affective attitude of students toward the morality of cheating and their academic cheating behaviours in the classroom. In order to carry out the study, theories were proposed related to the concept of human attitude and human behaviour and its relationship, the concept of morality and the attitude of Filipinos toward morality and the concept of morality of cheating. Therefore related literature and studies along those concepts were reviewed. To gather the data, validated questionnaires 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 determine the correlation between the two variables. The study found that Senior High School students of Divine Word Colleges in Region I have high positive cognitive and affective attitude toward morality of cheating and their negative cognitive and affective attitude were considered low and moderate. In terms of their cheating behaviour, it was found to be low. The study further found a correlation between positive and negative cognitive attitude toward morality of cheating and their cheating behaviour. In relation to their affective attitude, it was found that there is a significant correlation between positive affective attitude toward cheating and academic cheating behaviour and no correlation between negative affective attitude toward the morality of cheating and academic cheating behaviour.