Browsing by Subject "Cheating"

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catcher: a software program to detect answer copying in multiple-choice tests based on nominal response model
(SAGE Publications, 2012-08-16) Kalender, I.
catcher is a software program designed to compute the v index, a common statistical index for the identification of collusions (cheating) among examinees taking an educational or psychological test. It requires (a) responses and (b) ability estimations of individuals, and (c) item parameters to make computations and outputs the results of the analyses in two text files. The program uses the nominal response model to estimate v index and is based on residuals between expected and observed values of matched answers between examinee pairs (copier and source) by considering correct and incorrect answers, conditioning on source’s answers, copier’s ability level, and item parameters.
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Predicting student task motivation: the role of endorsed achievement goals and personal characteristics
(2016-05) Kahraman, Fulya
This study is a quantitative experimental design that investigates the relationship between students’ achievement outcomes (i.e., undesired outcomes, such as cheating behaviors and desired outcomes such as intrinsic motivation) and their achievement goals that were adapted for autonomous and controlling reasons. Additionally, this investigation considered students’ individual values and their dispositional motives that are related to the need for achievement and to the fear of failure. In this research, 219 students participated and completed a set of questionnaires that were written in their native language (Turkish). The study was conducted in the School of English Language within a private non-profit university in Ankara, Turkey. The study had six conditions that encouraged students to adopt one out of three achievement goals (i.e., performance-approach, intrapersonal-approach and intrapersonal-avoidance) for two motivational reasons (i.e., autonomous and controlling). A controlling neutral condition was also conducted (i.e., no induced goal nor underlying reason.). Both the need for achievement and fear of failure predicted autonomous reasons that were underlying the endorsement of intrapersonal-approach goal. On the other hand, neither the need for achievement nor fear of failure predicted autonomous reasons underlying the endorsement of either performance-approach or intrapersonal-avoidance goal. Furthermore, students who have endorsed a value to pursue their own interest (i.e., self-enhancement value) are less likely to endorse the goal to improve themselves (intrapersonal-approach goal) during a particular task. The study concludes with recommendations and implications for the findings.
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Under pressure to achieve? the impact of type and style of task instructions on student cheating
(Frontiers Media S. A., 2019) Pulfrey, C. J.; Vansteenkiste, M.; Michou, Aikaterina
Combining principles of Achievement Goal Theory, which maintains that performance goals play a key role in individuals’ likelihood of cheating, and Self-Determination Theory, which highlights the importance of autonomy support and autonomous motivation underlying achievement goals, we examined whether the combination of experimentally inducing a mastery-approach (relative to performance-approach) goal with an autonomy-supportive manner (instead of controlling) may attenuate cheating. In two experiments carried out with university students, one classroom based (N = 164) and one laboratory (N = 160), we manipulated the type of induced goal (performance- vs. mastery-approach) and style of introducing the goal (i.e., controlling vs. autonomy-supportive) by taking also into consideration participants’ values. We hypothesized that the least behaviorally observed cheating would occur in a context promoting mastery-approach goals in an autonomy-supportive way and among individuals low in self-enhancement value adherence. The dependent variables in both studies consisted of two set of exercises, both including questions that could only be solved by cheating. Results of Poisson regression analyses revealed that in both studies the least cheating in the first set of exercises occurred in the autonomy-supportive/mastery-approach condition, indicating that this induced goal complex has the greatest potential to restrain academic dishonesty in the short-term. Interaction effects with self-enhancement value adherence revealed that the cheating inhibitory effects of this induced goal complex was less effective for those who value power and achievement.