ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which cheating in academic work occurs at this university. 58 participants registered for a postgraduate diploma in education responded to a questionnaire on cheating. Some students admitted engaging in every behaviour; however, the percentage of students so engaged was much lower than those reported among British and American institutions of higher learning. This may partly be attributed to respondents being reluctant to divulge their dishonesty.
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Cross-Cultural Comparison , Developing Countries , Morals , Students/psychology , Adult , Education, Graduate , Female , Humans , Male , South AfricaABSTRACT
Responses to a questionnaire of 49 girls and 28 boys, who ranged in age from 17 to 29 years, suggested that pupils were favorable to sex education at schools as enhancing self-esteem, responsibility, and understanding of issues.
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Attitude to Health/ethnology , Sex Education , Students/psychology , Adolescent , Adult , Female , Humans , Male , School Health Services , South AfricaABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to explore self-reported stress experienced by secondary school teachers in Transkei, South Africa using a local unstandardized scale. Contrary to the literature on western teachers, an average rating of stress of 93.5 was reported by the 134 teachers, and no differences were noted between the 66 men and 68 women.
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Burnout, Professional/psychology , Cross-Cultural Comparison , Developing Countries , Stress, Psychological/complications , Teaching , Adult , Burnout, Professional/ethnology , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Personality Inventory , South Africa , Stress, Psychological/ethnologyABSTRACT
This study surveyed reports of practices of corporal punishment at secondary schools in Lesotho by 60 randomly selected pupils. There were 34 males and 26 females, whose mean age was 21 years, with a range between 14 and 29 years. Responses to a questionnaire confirmed that punishment was associated with pupils' reports of academic impairment, psychological damage, and physical injury.