Your Kid Hates Spanish Class? He's More Likely to Cheat
Here we go again. Cheating happens more often when teachers push students to get good grades than when they focus more on providing a content-rich class, according to newswise.com. Previous research suggests instructors who emphasize mastering the content in their classes encounter less student cheating than those who push students to get good grades. But that's not all of it. This new study found emphasizing mastery isn’t related as strongly to lower rates of cheating in classes that students list as their most disliked. Students in disliked classes were equally as likely to cheat, regardless of whether the instructors emphasized mastery or good grades. The factor that best predicted whether a student would cheat in a disliked class was a personality trait: a high need for sensation, claims Eric Anderman , co-author of the study and professor of educational psychology at The Ohio State University . People with a high need for sensation are risk-takers,...