Academic Cheating

[differenceblog]

Whitley et al (1999) hypothesized that women, socialized as keepers of morality, would show less favorable attitudes towards academic cheating and less cheating behavior than men. While their meta-analysis did find a moderate difference in attitudes towards cheating, the difference in behaviors was small. One possible mediating factor they found

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[fetteredwolf]

I think the high point of my college days was when three girls got their names taken off the honors list because they were caught cheating. Later it turned out that they cheated all the time AND flirted with the TAs to get better grades. We always wondered how they managed to have perfectly blow dried hair, and nail polish to match their shirts every morning, along with their perfect 4.0 GPAs.

[differenceblog]

Now that's an interesting question -- I wonder who has greater schadenfreude at deserved punishment...

[beckiemoriello]

female faculty had less confidence in the administrative management of ethics.

As a TA, I caught a (m)student cheating, and the (f)prof spent 1.5hrs talking me out of turning him in. It was her first year on the faculty, and it seems she was afraid of the hassles/controversy that would come up, and I think she thought that her teaching would get put on trial (she'd gotten poor student evaluations).

Also, no Academic Cheating post would be complete without reference to the fact that, culminating 4 days ago, I was on a 1 sem suspension for academic dishonesty.

The specific reason I'm bringing my suspension up is in response to: ...hypothesized that women, socialized as keepers of morality, would show less favorable attitudes towards academic cheating. In this post, an anonymous commenter is by far the most critical of my actions, and I'd always assumed he was a he. Wonder if other people thought that. Wonder why I thought that.

[differenceblog]

The voice definitely comes across as male, but I'm biased by your introduction.

There's a lot of reading there. Hopefully I will get to it (after my own exams!) It seems like an interesting story.