What is it about?
Examines the relations between impulsivity and academic cheating. For students who cheat a lot, impulsive tendencies are related to a greater likelihood of cheating. However, excessive cheaters who also are impulsive are less likely to cheat when the teacher emphasizes mastery in the class (i.e., the teacher encourages effort, allows students to re-do assignments and re-take tests until they reach mastery, etc.).
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Why is it important?
Cheating can be prevented. Cheating has a lot to do with how we teach... not just student characteristics.
Perspectives
This study adds to the literature demonstrating that the instructional approaches used by classroom teachers is in fact related in important ways to whether or not a student decides to cheat. When teachers stress mastery and allow students to truly master the material, cheating decreases; in this study, we showed that it decreases even among excessive cheater who also are highly impulsive.
Professor Eric Anderman
The Ohio State University
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This page is a summary of: Impulsivity and Academic Cheating, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/e536982007-001.
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