Teachers’ Judgments about Ethical Violations Survey – TJEVS

A teacher raises a child’s grade due to parental pressure.

A teacher spends considerable class time engaged in activities irrelevant to the subject area.

A teacher knowingly allows a student to violate a school rule in his or her classroom.

A teacher fails to keep an accurate record of his or her students’ academic performance.

A teacher makes a statement about subject matter without being certain that it is correct.

A teacher teaches a course without attempting to follow state curriculum guidelines.

A teacher gives rewards or punishments to students based on students’ popularity.

A teacher engages in a romantic relationship with a student.

A teacher uses the classroom to promote his or her religious views.

A teacher raises a student’s grade due to pressure from the student.

A teacher returns student papers without identifying or correcting errors.

A teacher gossips to other teachers about a student.

A teacher begins a class without having prepared a lesson.

A teacher gives a child a higher grade than the child deserves because the teacher likes the child.

A teacher talks about highly personal subjects with a student.

A teacher uses profanity in the classroom.

A teacher uses technology in the classroom that has not been approved by the school’s technology administrators.

A teacher makes a derogatory statement to a student.

A teacher gives rewards or punishments to students based on students’ ethnic or cultural characteristics.

A teacher fails to follow special education guidelines.

A teacher makes a derogatory comment about a colleague to another teacher.

A teacher makes a sexually provocative statement to a student.

A teacher fails to report a colleague’s unethical behavior.

A teacher dresses inappropriately at work.

A teacher behaves in an unprofessional way while outside of work.

A teacher uses a lesson or materials developed by another teacher without giving credit to the teacher who developed the material.

A teacher raises a child’s grade due to pressure from an administrator.

A teacher refuses to fail students, even when they perform poorly.

A teacher shares confidential information about a student with another student.

A teacher allows students to engage in romantic behavior in the classroom.

A teacher makes a derogatory comment about a colleague to a student.

A teacher copies material from a published text and distributes it to a class as though it is the teacher’s original material.

A teacher communicates with students about nonprofessional matters through Facebook, Twitter, or a similar social media site.

A teacher hires students to do chores.

A teacher gives students high grades in return for favors.

A teacher encourages students to address him or her by first name.

A teacher uses physical force to discipline a student.

A teacher changes a student’s grade or test score without justification.

A teacher fails to report a child’s threat of violence to self or others.

A teacher posts personal opinions about students on a public or semiprivate site such as Facebook.

A teacher downloads and implements a lesson found on the World Wide Web instead of creating an original lesson.