Factors of academic cheating among secondary school students: Home environment & gender

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the academic cheating among secondary school students in relation to home environment and gender. Academic cheating was treated as dependent variable whereas home environment and gender were treated as independent variables. Descriptive survey method was used. A sample of 600 secondary school students was taken by using multi-stage random sampling technique. Academic cheating scale by Kalia and Deep (2011) and home environment Inventory by Mishra (2012) were used to collect the data. The obtained data was analyzed using Two Way ANOVA with 3×2 factorial design. Levene's Test of Homogeneity of Variance was also applied to test the assumption of homogeneity of variance for ANOVA. Main effect of home environment reported to have a significant effect on academic cheating of secondary school students. Gender found to have no significant effect on academic cheating scores of secondary school students. Also no significant double interaction effect of home environment and gender found had no significant effect on the academic cheating of the secondary school students.