Comparative Analysis of Moral Uprightness in Addressing Gambling and Cyber- Crime Among Experienced and Pre- Service Teachers in Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This research found out the impact of gambling and cyber-crime on the morality of pre-service teachers in the Faculty of Education, University of Ilorin, Kwara, Nigeria. Three research questions and one hypothesis were formulated for this study. The paper is a descriptive survey research using questionnaire as a tool for data collection. Stratified sampling technique was used to select three hundred and seventy-six (376) respondents across the selected departments. The validity and reliability of the instrument is established by three experts in the department of measurement and evaluation, faculty of Education, University of Ilorin. A test-retest method was steered for the questionnaire and the results were used to calculate the reliability coefficient which yielded 0.78. The finding of this study revealed that the extent of students’ participation in gambling and cyber-crime was high. It is further revealed that the perceived causes of prospective students’ participation in gambling and cyber-crime in University of Ilorin, faculty of education were as a result of peer influence, lack of home training, idleness and joblessness, lack of moral training, negative societal influence, greediness and lust for wealth, media influence, poor guidance from religious leaders, absence of self-discipline, long strain poverty and intimidation among the youths. It is recommended that parents should continually intensify efforts in the provision of moral training for their children and also put adequate surveillance on them, so as to properly guide them from being lured into gambling and cyber-crime by their peers.

Keywords: Moral Uprightness, Gambling and cyber-crime, experienced teachers, pre-service teachers