Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities

This paper aims to determine the ethics of undergraduate students in four aspects of moral processes; awareness, judgement, intention and behaviour. It further explores the impact of gender and academic disciplines on these four moral processes. A total of 2000 undergraduate students from six public...

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Main Authors: Rodzalan, Shazaitul Azreen, Mohamed Saat, Maisarah
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Language:English
Published: 2016
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description This paper aims to determine the ethics of undergraduate students in four aspects of moral processes; awareness, judgement, intention and behaviour. It further explores the impact of gender and academic disciplines on these four moral processes. A total of 2000 undergraduate students from six public universities in Malaysia involved in this study. Data were collected through survey consists of 14 ethical statements developed based on previous studies. Descriptive analysis (such as mean), t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were employed for the data analysis. Overall, results reveal that student’s ethical level was mixed. The results also demonstrate that engineering students have low level of ethics, as compared to social science and science students. In terms of gender differences, female students appear to have higher level of ethics than their male counterparts. The findings of this study provide some educational and theoretical implications.
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spelling uthm-33992021-11-17T03:39:16Z http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3399/ Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities Rodzalan, Shazaitul Azreen Mohamed Saat, Maisarah LB2300-2430 Higher education This paper aims to determine the ethics of undergraduate students in four aspects of moral processes; awareness, judgement, intention and behaviour. It further explores the impact of gender and academic disciplines on these four moral processes. A total of 2000 undergraduate students from six public universities in Malaysia involved in this study. Data were collected through survey consists of 14 ethical statements developed based on previous studies. Descriptive analysis (such as mean), t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were employed for the data analysis. Overall, results reveal that student’s ethical level was mixed. The results also demonstrate that engineering students have low level of ethics, as compared to social science and science students. In terms of gender differences, female students appear to have higher level of ethics than their male counterparts. The findings of this study provide some educational and theoretical implications. 2016 Article PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3399/1/AJ%202017%20%2829%29%20Ethics%20of%20undergraduate%20students%20a%20study%20in%20Malaysian.pdf Rodzalan, Shazaitul Azreen and Mohamed Saat, Maisarah (2016) Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities. International Journal of Information and Education Technology, 6 (9). pp. 672-678. ISSN 2010-3689 http://10.7763/IJIET.2016.V6.772
spellingShingle LB2300-2430 Higher education
Rodzalan, Shazaitul Azreen
Mohamed Saat, Maisarah
Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title_full Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title_fullStr Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title_full_unstemmed Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title_short Ethics of undergraduate students: a study in Malaysian public universities
title_sort ethics of undergraduate students: a study in malaysian public universities
topic LB2300-2430 Higher education
url http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3399/
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http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/3399/1/AJ%202017%20%2829%29%20Ethics%20of%20undergraduate%20students%20a%20study%20in%20Malaysian.pdf