Cagala, Tobias
[VerfasserIn]
;
Glogowsky, Ulrich
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Rincke, Johannes
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
Does Commitment to a No-Cheating Rule Affect Academic Cheating?
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Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments August 1, 2019 erstellt
Beschreibung:
Educators around the globe often require students to commit to academic integrity by signing a no-cheating declaration. This paper evaluates how such no-cheating declarations affect academic cheating. Exploiting data from a field experiment with undergraduate students, we identify cheating by comparing the similarity in multiple-choice answers of seat neighbors and counterfactual neighbors. Our main finding is that students plagiarize more after having signed a no-cheating declaration. This effect is driven by students of below-average ability. Regarding channels, we find evidence suggesting that requesting a commitment to a no-cheating rule weakens the social norm of academic integrity and triggers psychological reactance