An analytical study on academic fraud affecting quality education

Abstract

Fraudulent activities and persons are far from trustworthiness and it extinguishes even the spark of advancement. Even though human behaviour by nature is prone to selfishness and fraud, education is a powerful instrument for a committed and enlightened and selfless generation. But if an education system is affected with the presence of fraud persons and activities, the future of learners may get damaged and malformed. Therefore, academic fraud is to be considered as the most dangerous situation affecting the credibility of the entire education system in building a healthy generation for the advancement of entire humanity. This paper examined different types of academic fraud affecting quality education at secondary schools. The comparisons are being made among government, private aided and private unaided schools with regard to academic fraud. Statistical technique percentage analysis, percentile and Anova were being employed in this study. 400 hundred secondary school students from government schools, private aided schools, and private Unaided schools were selected through stratified random sampling method for the study. The presence of 67.8% academic fraud related deviated practices were confirmed through the analysis of the data that were being collected from three types of schools.