Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
Department of Psychology, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 311121, China.
J Exp Child Psychol. 2023 Feb;226:105566. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105566. Epub 2022 Oct 11.
There has been extensive research on the causes of academic cheating, but little is known about its consequences. The current research sought to fill this gap in the literature by examining how cheating by middle school children (total N = 198) affects their learning outcomes. In a naturalistic paradigm, children scored a math test they had taken previously, which gave them an opportunity to cheat by falsely scoring incorrect answers to be correct. Results from this phase showed that 54 % of the children cheated on at least one question. One week later, the children took the same test again, but this time without being given an opportunity to cheat. Among children who cheated, items they had answered incorrectly on the first round showed significantly less improvement on the second round if they had dishonestly scored them as correct rather than honestly scoring them as incorrect. This finding provides the first experimental evidence that academic cheating can interfere with children's learning.
已有大量研究探讨了学术作弊的原因，但对于其后果却知之甚少。本研究旨在填补这一文献空白，通过考察中学生（总人数 N=198）作弊行为如何影响他们的学习成果，来探究这一问题。在自然主义范式中，孩子们对他们之前参加过的数学测试进行了评分，他们有机会通过将错误答案标记为正确来作弊。这一阶段的结果显示，有 54%的孩子至少在一道题上作弊了。一周后，孩子们再次参加了同样的测试，但这次他们没有机会作弊。在作弊的孩子中，如果他们不诚实地将之前标记为错误的答案标记为正确，而不是诚实地标记为错误，那么他们在第一轮中答错的题目在第二轮中的改进幅度明显较小。这一发现提供了第一个实验证据，表明学术作弊会干扰孩子的学习。
