Teacher enthusiasm: a potential cure of academic cheating

Abstract

In this research we claim that teachers’ enthusiasm matters regarding student engagement in terms of academic cheating. Previous studies found that perceived enthusiasm of teachers is positively related to the intrinsic motivation of the students. However, it was less investigated how perceived enthusiasm is related to cheating. In the first exploratory questionnaire study (N = 244) we found that during the exams of those teachers who are perceived to be enthusiastic students tend to cheat less. In the second questionnaire study (N = 266) we took academic motivations into consideration and we found that the more teachers seem enthusiastic the cheating rate will be lower among university students. Aggregated teacher enthusiasm was positively related to intrinsic motivation, negatively related to amotivation, and not related to extrinsic motivation. Aggregated teacher enthusiasm was directly and negatively linked to cheating and it explained more variance in cheating than academic motivations together. These results suggest that teachers’ perceived enthusiasm can be a yet unexplored interpersonal factor which could effectively prevent academic cheating.

Performance and Attitude of Undergraduate Students of Golestan University of Medical Sciences Towards Cheating in Exams

“…The study conducted by Orosz et al on 266 participants showed that teachers' enthusiasm promotes academic motivation and reduces the prevalence of cheating in students. As an unexplored interpersonal factor, teachers' enthusiasm can, therefore, effectively prevent academic cheating (26).…”

Engasjement i undervisningen

“…Men forskere har også hatt motforestillinger mot å spørre undervisere om deres eget engasjement på grunn av «… social desirability biases and ceiling effects regarding self-reports of teachers concerning their enthusiasm» (Orosz et al, 2015). I en norsk masteroppgave ble det gjennomført kvalitative forskningsintervjuer med elleve universitetslaerere This article is downloaded from www.idunn.no.…”

“…Som nevnt innledningsvis, har forskere også advart mot egenrapportering av engasjement blant laerere, blant annet på grunn av mulig bias i retning av et ønske om å fremstå som sosialt vellykte (jf. Orosz et al, 2015). Det er likevel mye en kan få vite om engasjement ved å spørre de engasjerte.…”

Teacher Guidance and Counseling Efforts to Prevent Cheating Behavior

“…Ehrlich et al [1] define cheating in general as behaving "dishonestly or unfairly in order to win some profit or advantage". Siercles at al [2] defined "cheating as copying from another student or from unauthorized notes during an examination, previewing the examination illicitly, submitting someone else's work as one's own, plagiarizing, falsifying experimental data, and asking another student for answers to an examination that one student had taken but the other had not".…”