Cheating behavior, anticipated success-failure, confidence, and test importance created by John P. Houston

By:

Houston, John P [author]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: An international journal of experimental educational psychology ; Volume 69 , number 1,Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association, 1977Content type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

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volume

ISSN:

0144-3410

Subject(s):

Cheating -- Failure -- Multiple choice tests

LOC classification:

LB1051 JOU

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Abstract: An experiment with 190 undergraduates studied correlations between actual university classroom cheating behavior (multiple-choice answer copying) and pretest estimates of success, confidence, and test importance. In agreement with J. P. Houston and T. Ziff (1976), answer copying correlated positively with estimates of success. Confidence in these estimates of success also correlated positively with answer copying, while judgments of test importance which were uniformly high, did not. The best prediction of cheating was obtained through a multiple correlation involving estimates of both success and confidence. Results are related to previous findings and to cheating behavior as it may interact with levels of anticipated success and levels of risk incentive.

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An experiment with 190 undergraduates studied correlations between actual university classroom cheating behavior (multiple-choice answer copying) and pretest estimates of success, confidence, and test importance. In agreement with J. P. Houston and T. Ziff (1976), answer copying correlated positively with estimates of success. Confidence in these estimates of success also correlated positively with answer copying, while judgments of test importance which were uniformly high, did not. The best prediction of cheating was obtained through a multiple correlation involving estimates of both success and confidence. Results are related to previous findings and to cheating behavior as it may interact with levels of anticipated success and levels of risk incentive.

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