Students' Perception On the Inculcation and Understanding of Values in The School Curriculum

The study was conducted to examine the extent to which the inculcation of 16 values has been successful and how far the students have understood the values. The respondents of the study comprised 1039 secondary school students from two states in Malaysia. The questionnaire administered was the Inventory on Noble Values which was developed by the researchers. Results revealed that students perceived their teachers as successfully inculcating all the 16 values in their lessons and they had understood those values too. However, the question still remains as to whether these students had internalized those values. This question is pertinent in the face of the current adolescent social problems.