Posted on 03/24/2011 3:28:29 PM PDT by george76
That time-honored anti-cheating mantra, “You’re only hurting yourself,” may be literal fact, according to new research.
Emerging evidence suggests students who cheat on a test are more likely to deceive themselves into thinking they earned a high grade on their own merits, setting themselves up for future academic failure.
In four experiments detailed in the March Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Harvard Business School and Duke University found that cheaters pay for the short-term benefits of higher scores with inflated expectations for future performance.
The findings come as surveys and studies show a majority of students cheat
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I feel that performance is a much better indicator than rote examination.
The best professors I ever had gave us open book / open note exams. They were also the classes with the hardest tests and the classes I got the most out of.
I give open book, open note exams.
I also tell the students that the questions concern what they’ve studied, but that the books and notes will do them no good.
It’s easy to do...although I doubt that any education major would have a clue.
Again and again professors pretend to discover what was once common cultural truisms.
Can’t we let Ted Kennedy rest in peace??? /s
You forgot Joe "Bite Me", also known as plugs.
Preparing that card, and distilling a half-semester's worth of info down to the most important, relevant and pertinent details made for the best study sessions one could imagine. His tests were essay, so even though you had certain facts, dates, etc. right in front of you, you had to articulate why they were important and how they applied to the question(s) at hand.
OK - someone had to do research to come to this conclusion?
I’ve seen too many cheaters prosper to believe this.
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