Wish to Increase Profitable Youngsters? Do not Reward Them Like This, In response to a New Examine
Cheating. We’re all against it, right?
EXPERT OPINION BY BILL MURPHY JR., FOUNDER OF UNDERSTANDABLY AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR, INC. @BILLMURPHYJR
A female secondary school student sits an exam in a spacious school hall, the atmosphere calm and focused. She concentrates intently on her paper, pen in hand. The mid shot captures her quiet determination in the academic setting.
Cheating. We’re all against it, right? And I assume that means we’d want to teach our kids the same values—and certainly not to accidentally do anything that might encourage them to cheat in the first place.
With that, let’s take a look at a new study in which researchers told young kids they were gifted or smart—and then gave them the chance to cheat, to see what they’d do.
We’ll look at how this fits into
Then we’ll look at how this fits into a longer line of research on how praise can change what kids want from a test.
You got the answers right because …
The researchers conducted three separate experiments involving 378 children ages 5 and 6. Each child received feedback after an initial math test — and then took a harder test that gave them an opportunity to cheat.
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Here’s how the first experiment worked: Researchers gave 126 children a test with ambiguous answers—the same answer could be right or wrong.
Afterward they told the children that they’d gotten
But afterward they told the children that they’d gotten all of the answers wrong, and told them one of three things:
- You got the answers wrong because the test was too hard for you.
- You got the answers wrong because you didn’t try hard enough.
- You got the answers wrong because you just had bad luck.
In a control experiment, 168 other kids took a pre-test where the answers were clear-cut, and they got them all right.
Source: www.inc.com
