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Houston, John P. | 1 |
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Houston, John P. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1977
When correlations between actual university classroom cheating behavior (multiple-choice answer copying) and pretest estimates of success, confidence, and test importance were studied answer copying correlated positively with estimates of success. Confidence in these estimates of success also correlated positively with answer copying, while…
Descriptors: Cheating, Failure, Multiple Choice Tests, Risk