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Nai-Ying Whang – SAGE Open, 2023
We explored the moderated mediating effect of the causes of corruption in schools on its consequences through prevention and control promoted by leaders' moral impetus. We surveyed 81 Taiwanese elementary and secondary schools; 1,024 school principals, administrative staff, teachers, and parents completed valid questionnaires, which we analyzed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary Schools, Secondary Schools, Principals
Okwilagwe, Oshiotse A.; Mubonyin, Marie-Louse Vome – Online Submission, 2011
This study investigated the role of bibliotherapy in value system formation by undergraduates in seven faculties of the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Out of the 1,372 sampled students, 746 (54.37%) were males and 626 (45.63%) were females. The Chi-square statistical method at the alpha level of 0.05 was used in testing four hypotheses developed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Bibliotherapy, Role
Huang, Francis Lim – International Journal of Education Policy and Leadership, 2008
Corruption is a problem that continues to plague developed and developing countries worldwide. Previous studies have explored the negative implications of corruption on several aspects of human development, but, despite its serious and long-lasting consequences, the impact of corruption on educational outcomes has started to receive attention only…
Descriptors: Public Officials, Cheating, Deception, Antisocial Behavior
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Osipian, Ararat L. – Research in Comparative and International Education, 2007
Corruption is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. Forms of corruption are multiple. Measuring corruption is necessary not only for getting ideas about the scale and scope of the problem, but for making simple comparisons between the countries and conducting comparative analysis of corruption. While the total impact of corruption is indeed…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Context Effect, Cheating
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Rothstein, Richard – National Center on Performance Incentives, 2008
Accountability and performance incentive plans in education are compromised by goal distortion, gaming, and corruption. Education policy makers who design such plans have paid insufficient attention to similar experiences in other fields. This paper describes institutions in health care, job training and welfare administration, and in the private…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Sector, Job Performance, Incentives
Osipian, Ararat L. – Online Submission, 2007
Corruption in higher education is a newly emerging topic in the field of education research. There is a phenomenal growth in the number of media reports on corruption in higher education over the last decade. However, the rigorous systematic research on education corruption is virtually nonexistent. This paper considers corruption in higher…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Incidence, Foreign Countries, Crime