Students in Bandar Abbas

November, 2013

 

 

 

 

                

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

 

 

Contents                                                                                       page

 

 

Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………………..i

 

Dedication ……………………………………………………………………………………………ii

 

Table of contents…………………………………………………………………………………..iii

 

List of tables…………………………………………………………………………………………VI

 

List of figures……………………………………………………………………………………….vii

 

Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………..viii

 

 

Chapter1. Introduction…………………………………………………………………………..1

 

 

 

1.1.Preliminaries ..2

 

 

1.2. Statement of the problem ..3

 

 

1.3. Significance of the study ..4

 

 

1.4. Purpose of the study and research questions ..5

 

 

1.5. Research question ..5

 

 

1.6. Research hypothesis ..5

 

 

1.7. Definition of key terms …………………………..6

  

1.7. Limitations and delimitations …..6

 

 

 

Chapter 2. Review of the related literature …..8

 

 

 

2.1. Introduction ….9

 

 

2.2. Cheating and its types 9

 

 

2.3. Cause of cheating . 15

 

 

2.4. Application of cheating … 18

 

 

2.5. Side effect of cheating ….  18

 

 

2.6. Feedback of cheating … 21

 

 

2.7. Definition of rapport ..23

 

 

2.8. Benefits of building rapport between student and teacher ………..23

 

 

2.9. Rapport- building strategies .24

 

 

2.10.Rapport, learning and teaching …25

 

 

 

2.11. The relationship between student-teacher rapport 35

 

 

Chapter3 Methodology .37

 

 

3.1. Introduction ..40

 

 

3.2. Design .40

 

 

3.3. Participant . …41

 

 

3.4. Instrument 41

 

3.5. Rapport and cheating questionnaires ..41

 

3.6. Data collection procedure 42 3.7.

 

Data analysis procedure 42

 

  Chapter 4 Data analysis and result . 48

 

3.8. Introduction 49

 

Chapter 5 Discussion, Conclusion, Implications, and Suggestions ……………..62

 

3.10. Introduction ..63

 

3.11. Discution …63

 

3.12. Conclusion ..63

 

3.13. Implication .63

 

3.14. Suggestion 64

 

Reference .66

 

Appendix 79

 

                                                    List of Tables

 

Table                                                                        Page

 

Table 1. Students’ major in high school ..45

 

Table 2. Students’ average in high school …46

 

Table3. Item statistic 46

 

Table4. Descriptive statistic for students’ rapport …47

 

Table5. Descriptive statistic for students’ cheating .48

 

Table6. Correlation between rapport and cheating ..49

 

Table7. Nonparametric test for cheating and rapport ..51

 

Table8. Kruskal-Wallis Test. Rapport ranks ..52

 

Table9. Kruskal-Wallis Test. Cheating ranks ..53

 

Table10. Table of response frequency 54        

 

                                                                                                                                      Table11. Response percent …..54

       

                                      List of Figures

 

Figures                                                                                                                Page

 

Figure1. Correlation graph between relationship and cheating ..50

 

Abstract

 

Cheating has become one of the major problems on many high schools and college campuses. It is most prevalent at the college level. However, there have been reports of cheating incidents occurring at high school level. This research quantitatively would study the relationship between teacher- student rapport and students willingness to cheat in English classes of Iranian high schools in Bandar Abbas, with an average of between 17-18 years of age. First, they were given two questionnaires to answer. One questionnaire about rapport and another about cheating. From data collected, using correlation coefficient it was made clear  that there was not any significant relationship between teacher students  rapport and students willingness to cheat( i.e.: whether it would increase or decrease cheating in exams). Studying the views of high school students on such a serious issue as cheating could be beneficial in looking at ways to prevent and