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Impact of Academic Dishonesty on Quality of Education in Government
Secondary Schools of East Shao Zone, Oromia Regional State
ABSTRACT
The purpose of the study was to identify the impact of academic dishonesty on quality of
education in government secondary schools of East Shao Zone, Oromia Regional State.
To accomplish purpose, the study employed descriptive survey research design. The study
was conducted in four secondary schools of the Zone. The respondents were four
principals, four supervisors, 20 department heads and 80 students’ council
representatives were selected by available sampling. Questionnaire and interview were
used to collect data for the study. The questionnaire was developed and distributed to 20
teachers and 80 students. Interview was conducted with four school principals and four
cluster supervisors in four sample secondary schools. Frequency, percentage and mean
value were employed by using SPSS version 20 to analyse the quantitative data. The
qualitative data obtained through interview were narrated in words. The quantitative data
showed that there was lack of awareness among the school leaders to orienting the impact
of academic cheating for school-community and parents successfully. Besides school
leaders do not contribute as per their responsibilities. There was also lack of
collaboration and constructive feedbacks that improve students’ performance in teaching
and learning process. On other hand there was lack workshops, seminars and trainings of
teachers to improve academic dishonesty and update them on current issues. There were
factors that inhabited the performance of leaders; these were lack of training, immediate
turnover of trained leaders from school to other sectors. These difficulties played negative
impact on designing and applying the rule and regulation of academic cheating. So the
researcher recommended that, the Zone, Woredas’ education office and school leaders
should give short term training and supportive supervision to reduce academic cheating.
In addition, the government was recommended to allocate and facilitate resources, and
the school leaders should give due attention and working collaboratively with all school-
community to successes students’ academic achievement
