Implementation of Establishing an Honesty Store: Strengthening the Value of Honesty among the Grade Eight Students of Rosario National High School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Department of Education gave a directive to post the quotation "Honesty is the best Policy'' in every classroom so that this character will be embedded to the hearts of the Filipino youths (Department of Education Memo No. 108, S. 2012). To the dictionary honesty is sincerity and sincerity is honesty. Honesty in Wikipedia is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere (www.wikipedia.com). Aside from Department of Education, several attempts are being done by institutions in promoting the value of honesty through different programs. Honesty Store, wherein the customers will get whatever they need from the store, log it in a book and put their payments in a box, is one of these programs which practice honest acts among different individuals in some areas of the Philippines even in different public schools.

METHODS

The respondents of the study are 270 Grade Eight students of Rosario National High School. Thehonesty of the students was measured using an evaluation form. This is the Panukat sa Pagiging Matapat. It has five components namely: pagiging matapat sa sarili, pagiging matapat sa pamilya, pagiging matapat sa kaibigan, pagiging matapat sa kapwa, at pagiging matapat sa mga alituntunin at patakaran. Each component has five (5) statements to evaluate. Overall, the instrument is composed of 25 statements which is measurable through Likert scale of 1-5.

RESULTS

The result reveals that the t-value of 6.066 and 6.196 with 9 as degrees of freedom, the variables have the same p-value of 0.001 which is less than 5% level of significance, shows that there is a significant difference between the official logged sales and the actual income of the Honesty Store.

DISCUSSIONS

Thus, the null hypothesis that there is no significant difference between the official logged sales and the actual income of the Honesty Store is rejected. This implies that the Honesty Store of Rosario National High School has strengthened the value of honesty among the grade eight students.