Insidious Assumptions

Abstract

Pluralistic ignorance occurs when individuals misperceive a group norm and attempt to match the perceived—rather than actual—norm. Little is currently known about its role in the undergraduate classroom. The present research examined the pluralistic ignorance of studying behavior and its relationship with examination performance across four studies. Results suggested that students underestimate the amount of time their peers spend studying (Study 1), the extent of their estimation error is related to exam performance (Study 2), and that the relationship is mediated by a perceived lack of preparation (Study 3). Finally, a brief classroom intervention (Study 4) may be able to eliminate the pluralistic ignorance. Implications for the theory of pluralistic ignorance, and college teaching, are discussed.

Exam Wrappers in Psychology

“…Perhaps one of the most important issues that students encounter is poor preparation for the examinations. Some students have faulty assumptions about how their peers are studying and this has been shown to affect their own performance negatively (Buzinski et al, 2018). Another factor that may influence exam preparation is how faculty teach students to prepare for exams.…”

Multicultural education-oriented digital teaching materials to improve students' pluralist attitudes

“…According to research (Erbaş, 2019;Kim & So, 2018;Pang, 2019), in implementing multicultural education in elementary schools, in designing multi-cultural education, the government must pay attention to the dimensions of multi-cultural education, namely (1) content integration, namely integrating various cultures and groups to illustrate basic concepts, generalisations and theories in subjects/disciplines, (2) the knowledge construction process, which brings students to understand the cultural implications of a subject (discipline), (3) an equity pedagogy, which is to adjust teaching methods to student learning to facilitate diverse student academic achievement. Both in terms of race, culture or social, (4) prejudice reduction, namely identifying the racial characteristics of students and determining their teaching methods ( 5) training groups to participate in sports activities, interacting with all staff and students of different ethnic and racial backgrounds to create an academic culture (Broom, 2019;Buzinski et al, 2018;Dahm, 2017). Of course, this is very supportive of research conducted by researchers where researchers instil multi-cultural education in students through content integration packaged in the form of teaching materials.…”