AUTHOR=Marksteiner Tamara , Nishen Anna K. , Dickhäuser Oliver TITLE=Students’ Perception of Teachers’ Reference Norm Orientation and Cheating in the Classroom JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.614199 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.614199 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Students’ cheating is a serious problem: It undermines the chance to adequately promote, support, and evaluate them. To explain cheating behavior, research seldom focuses on perceived teachers’ characteristics. Thus, we investigate the relationship between students’ cheating behavior and an important teacher characteristic, individual reference norm orientation (IRNO; i.e., the tendency to evaluate students based on their performance development over time). We examined cheating on written exams, on homework, and in oral exams among