A Study of the Ethical and Moral Behaviors of Teachers at the Demonstration School of Ramkhamhaeng University

Abstract

         This research aimed to 1) study the ethical and moral behaviors of teachers at the Demonstration School of Ramkhamhaeng University (DSRU), and 2) compare their ethical and moral behaviors in terms of gender, educational degree and work experience. The population of the study were 151 teachers at DSRU teaching in the first semester of 2015. The sample size was determined using the Krejcie and Morgan Table at the 95% level of confidence, and 108 samples were then selected through a simple random sampling technique. The instrument of the study was a 40-item Likert scale questionnaire covering items regarding the four areas of teachers’ ethical and moral behaviors, namely, ethical behaviors towards students, towards self, towards profession, and towards society. The questionnaire had the indices of item congruence between 0.8-1.0 and a reliability of 0.94. The data were analyzed using frequency, percentage, mean, and standard deviation. The comparisons of the means were conducted using independent t-test and one-way ANOVA. The findings indicated that 1) the teachers had a high level of overall and the four individual areas of ethical and moral behaviors; 2) male and female teachers showed a significant difference in their overall and the four individual areas of ethical behaviors at the 0.05 levels; 3) teachers with different educational degrees showed a significant difference in their overall and the four individual areas of ethical behaviors at the 0.05 level; and 4) teachers with different work experience showed a significant difference in their overall and the four individual areas of ethical behaviors at the 0.05 level.