{"id":157145,"date":"2021-09-14T11:36:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/?p=157145"},"modified":"2021-09-15T11:49:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T15:49:46","slug":"rettinger-discusses-grade-obsession-cheating-with-bakersfield-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/2021\/09\/14\/rettinger-discusses-grade-obsession-cheating-with-bakersfield-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Rettinger Discusses Grade Obsession, Cheating with Bakersfield.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_156403\" style=\"width: 248px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-156403\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-156403\" src=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Academic Integrity Programs David Rettinger\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-812x1024.jpg 812w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-768x968.jpg 768w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-1218x1536.jpg 1218w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-1624x2048.jpg 1624w, https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/Rettinger_David_389c-scaled.jpg 2030w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-156403\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor of Psychological Science and Director of Academic Integrity Programs David Rettinger<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Professor of Psychological Science David Rettinger weighed in on a recent article on Bakersfield.com (California) on how focusing too much on grades can often lead to cheating.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s been a rough year for authentic learning. High school and college cheating levels are skyrocketing \u2014 or, at least, more professionals are looking for cheating and finding it. \u201cI\u2019ve seen 100-200% increases,\u201d says psychology professor David Rettinger, who is director of academic integrity programs at the University of Mary Washington. \u201cThere are a lot more reports of student academic misconduct.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This is not surprising. When students feel the odds are stacked against them, they do not respond with heartfelt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rate.com\/research\/news\/stop-kids-cheating-tests\" target=\"\u2014blank\" rel=\"noopener\">engagement and honesty<\/a>. \u201cIf students don\u2019t think that it\u2019s possible to learn something, or they think the situation is inherently unfair, they say, \u2018Well, it\u2019s not reasonable to expect me to do the work fairly because the situation is unfair,\u2019\u201d Rettinger says.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bakersfield.com\/ap\/news\/arianne-cohen-focusing-on-your-kid-s-grades-could-backfire\/article_84714bcf-a604-5586-be97-3fff3c9db7bb.html\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of Psychological Science David Rettinger weighed in on a recent article on Bakersfield.com (California) on how focusing too much on grades can often lead to cheating. It\u2019s been a rough year for authentic learning. High school and college cheating levels are skyrocketing \u2014 or, at least, more professionals are looking for cheating and finding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28559,"featured_media":156403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[17930,9067,342],"class_list":{"0":"post-157145","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-professional-notes","8":"tag-academic-integrity-programs","9":"tag-department-of-psychological-science","10":"tag-dretting","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webarchive.umw.edu\/eagleeye\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}