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Relationship between Selected Personal Determinants and Examination Cheating among Kenyan Secondary School Students

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  • John Timon Odhiambo Owenga
  • Peter J. O. Aloka
  • Pamela A. Raburu

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The present study investigated the relationship between selected personal determinants and examination cheating among Kenyan secondary school students. This study used a Sequential Explanatory design. The target population was 51,900 students in Kisumu County within 153 public secondary schools categorized as 2 National secondary schools, 21 extra county schools, and 130 county and sub-county schools. A simple random sampling technique was used to determine sample size which comprised of 380 respondents since the study was confined within specific ecological boundary which was public secondary schools. Data collection instruments included questionnaires, for general data collection from the respondents and in-depth interview schedules for one to one interview of respondents. The finding of the study shows that there was statistically significant positive correlation (r=.592, n=360, p

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  • John Timon Odhiambo Owenga & Peter J. O. Aloka & Pamela A. Raburu, 2018. "Relationship between Selected Personal Determinants and Examination Cheating among Kenyan Secondary School Students," Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, Richtmann Publishing Ltd, vol. 7, March.
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