TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose Academic misconduct has become an albatross on the management of higher education institutions with long-term ramification on developmental agenda of countries. The purpose of this paper is to examine the association between religiousness of students and examination cheating tendencies. Further, this paper explored the cheating methods, reasons for cheating and the relationship between perception of peer cheating and examination cheating propensity among students in Ghana.Design/methodology/approach A cross-sectional research design was adopted for the study using questionnaires to collect data from 355 students in a three-year higher national diploma awarding technical university in Ghana. Descriptive statistics, Mann Whitney U and Kruskal Wallis tests were the main data analytical tools.Findings Results of the study revealed that “fear of failure” was the leading reason driving students’ examination cheating behaviours. Perception of peer cheating was related to levels of self-reported cheating whereas religious inclination of students was uncorrelated with the self-reported cheating behaviour of students.Practical implications The findings of the study provide implication for management of higher education institutions. The academic counselling unit of higher education institutions should work to dispel students’ overly sensitivity to end-of-semester examinations. Teachings of religious groups should highlight examination cheating as constituting violations of religious values and norms.Originality/value This paper is one of the pioneers of examination cheating and religiosity relationship in Ghana’s higher education settings. This study makes an additional contribution to the literature on the religiosity examination cheating nexus.
VL  - 32
IS  - 6
SN  - 0951-354X
DO  - 10.1108/IJEM-07-2017-0165
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/IJEM-07-2017-0165
AU  - Mensah Christopher
AU  - Azila-Gbettor Edem M.
PY  - 2018
Y1  - 2018/01/01
TI  - Religiosity and students’ examination cheating: evidence from Ghana
T2  - International Journal of Educational Management
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 1156
EP  - 1172
Y2  - 2024/05/06
ER  -