• Students with attention problems more li

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    Students with attention problems more likely to cheat
    Many don't get ADHD diagnosis that could lead to help

    Date:
    January 18, 2022
    Source:
    Ohio State University
    Summary:
    High school students who have trouble paying attention in class
    are more likely to admit to cheating, a new study shows.



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    High school students who have trouble paying attention in class are more
    likely to admit to cheating, a new study shows.


    ========================================================================== Researchers found that inattention led to hyperactivity in the students,
    and both together contributed to higher levels of cheating.

    The issue is important because many students with attention problems
    don't get an official diagnosis, such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, said Eric Anderman, lead author of the study and
    professor of educational psychology at The Ohio State University.

    "Students diagnosed with ADHD get a lot of support and help in school,
    but many other kids with attention problems fall through the cracks,"
    Anderman said.

    "They don't get the help they need that could help them do better in
    school and avoid cheating." Anderman conducted the study with Richard
    Gilman of Terrace Metrics and Xingfeiyue Liu, a doctoral student,
    and Seung Yon Ha, a postdoctoral scholar, both in education at Ohio
    State. Their results were published recently in the journal Psychology
    in the Schools.



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    The researchers studied 855 adolescents from three midwestern public
    schools, two suburban and one rural. Data was collected twice from the students, about one year apart.

    The students completed a standardized measure of inattention that asked
    them to rate how much they felt they had trouble paying attention to their teacher, how forgetful they were, whether they had a short attention span,
    and similar questions.

    Students' hyperactivity was rated by their responses to questions like
    whether they had trouble sitting still and whether they talked over
    other people.

    To evaluate cheating, students rated how true it would be to say they used cheat sheets when they took tests, copied answers from other students,
    and similar statements.

    The results showed that students with higher levels of inattention
    reported higher levels of hyperactivity, and students who were more
    hyperactive reported a higher rate of cheating.



    ========================================================================== Hyperactivity by itself was not linked to more cheating.

    "Inattention is the driver here, the issue that leads to problems in
    the classroom," Anderman said.

    "The student is not paying attention, so he gets out of his seat and
    goofs around, and when you put both together, that is a perfect setup
    for more cheating." The study took into account a wide variety of other factors that have been linked to cheating, including depression, learning disabilities, gender, ethnicity, grade point average and whether students qualified for special education services -- and inattention still was
    related to cheating.

    In addition, the researchers also examined how disruptive students were in class, based on reports from their peers. That didn't influence cheating.

    "Once you account for inattentiveness and hyperactivity, we found that disruptiveness wasn't related to cheating. That is not what is driving
    cheating behaviors," Anderman said.

    Generally accepted rates of ADHD are between 7-9% of students aged 17
    and younger. Studies suggest, however, that up to three times as many
    students have problems with attention or hyperactivity, but either don't
    meet the criteria for the ADHD diagnosis or have never been evaluated.

    That doesn't mean they don't need help, Anderman said.

    "There are so many evidence-based programs that can help these students
    who have problems with attention learn to self-regulate, to learn how
    to be a learner," Anderman said.

    "If they had access to these programs, they could learn in class and they wouldn't have to cheat. And these students are not learning partially
    because of attention issues they can't help." Data collection for this
    study was supported by grants from the Eunice Kennedy Shiver National
    Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute
    of Justice.

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    ========================================================================== Journal Reference:
    1. Eric M. Anderman, Richard Gilman, Xingfeiyue Liu, Seung Yon Ha. The
    relations of inattention and hyperactivity to academic cheating
    in adolescents with executive functioning problems. Psychology in
    the Schools, 2022; DOI: 10.1002/pits.22644 ==========================================================================

    Link to news story: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/01/220118145949.htm

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