Justice, Deontology and Moral Meaningfulness as Factors to Improve Student Performance and Academic Achievement

Abstract

The relationship between ethics and performance has previously been addressed in the literature, although there are still some gaps, for example, the relationship of ethical ideologies to student performance. This work aims to contribute to the literature with a statistical evaluation using partial least squares path modelling (PLS-PM) regarding whether university students' ethical ideologies and moral meaningfulness influence their level of student performance and academic achievement. Results indicate that the ideologies of justice and deontology increase moral meaningfulness, moral meaningfulness in turn increase student's citizenship behaviours and student's in-role performance, and finally, student's in-role performance positively influences academic achievement. This research provides resources applicable to the fields of pedagogy and ethics to encourage performance during the study and highlight the value of the ideologies of justice and deontology.

Character Education in the Pandemic Era: A Religious Ethical Learning Model through Islamic Education

“…Research related to education for the moral development of students has attracted the attention of researchers in various countries. Soto-Pérez et al (2021) analyzed the influence of ethical ideology and students' moral significance on the level of student performance and academic achievement. By using partial least squares path modeling (PLS PM) statistical analysis, the research results reveal that the ideology of justice and deontology can increase moral significance, which also positively increases students' citizenship behaviors, students' in-role performance, as well as academic achievement.…”