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Achievement Goals for Teaching as Predictors of Students' Perceptions of Instructional Practices and Students' Help Seeking and Cheating
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Butler, Ruth; Shibaz, Limor – Learning and Instruction, 2008
This study examined a new achievement-goal approach to teacher motivation by testing the predictions that mastery and ability-avoidance goals for teaching would predict students' reports of teacher support for and inhibition of question asking and help seeking, as well as students' help seeking and cheating. Surveys were completed by 53 teachers…
Descriptors: Help Seeking, Student Attitudes, Cheating, Teacher Motivation
Cheating in High School: Differences Between the Sexes
Schab, Fred – J Nat Assn Wom Deans Counselors, 1969
Discusses and tabulates survey results of 1,629 northeast Georgia students. Speculates that fear of failure, need for status may be causes. (CJ)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Cheating, High School Students
Cheating as a Function of the Labeling of Natural Arousal
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Dienstbier, Richard A.; Munter, Pamela Osborne – Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1971
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Behavior Patterns, Behavioral Science Research, Cheating
College Cheating: Ten Years Later.
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Diekhoff, George M.; And Others – Research in Higher Education, 1996
A follow-up study of college students' (n=474) cheating behaviors looked at extent of cheating, attitudes toward it, characteristics of cheaters/noncheaters, effectiveness of deterrents, and attitude changes from 1984-94. A significant rise in cheating was found, but with less rationalization. An additional 12 variables discriminating cheaters…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Behavior Patterns, Cheating
Individual and Contextual Influences on Academic Dishonesty: A Multicampus Investigation.
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McCabe, Donald L.; Trevino, Linda Klebe – Research in Higher Education, 1997
A survey of 1,793 students at nine state universities found cheating was influenced by a number of characteristics of individuals, including age, sex, and grade point average, and contextual factors, including level of cheating among peers, peer disapproval of cheating, fraternity/sorority membership, and perceived severity of penalties for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Cheating