The effects of cheating
Not that anyone has or would ever do this, but a good look at the real effects of cheating.
What do top students do differently?
The value of retrieval
According to the authors of Make It Stick (Brown, Roediger, & McDaniel, 2014), “We’re easily seduced into believing that learning is better when it’s easier, but the research shows the opposite: when the mind has to work, learning sticks better.” One way to make the mind work is through retrieval practice, such as with self-testing. This, the authors argue, gets more mind-at-work traction than rereading book chapters over and over.