Test Information: An Application of the Economics of Search

Abstract

Tested several predictions about cheating by a multivariate technique applied to two sections of a college economics course examined on the same day, with 50 percent of the questions repeated on the second exam. It was found that 36 percent of the students on the second test had used information acquired from the first test. Majors, better students, working students, and those voluntarily in the course were found to have cheated less. (Author/DB)