DOI: 10.5176/2345-7163_1.2.24
Authors: Mahmoud I. Syam and Fatima Al-Shaikh
Abstract:
Cheating is one of the worst habitats that some students use it to pass their exams, and the biggest challenge to teachers and invigilators during tests to control the class and prohibit cheating. Students always try to find and create new methods of cheating and invigilators try to find solutions for this phenomenon. Many Educators discussed this phenomenon and investigated the reasons of cheating, but they couldn’t stop this problem. In this research we investigated the reasons behind the cheating, methods of cheating and we introduced some suggestions to reduce cheating in exams.
As a part of this paper, we distributed a questionnaire contained 19 questions among the students in Qatar University to investigate the reasons behind cheating and introduce some suggestions to reduce it in the exams. Questions were grouped in 6 categories and several study hypotheses were then analyzed by using the Z-test. The study detected that the reasons of cheating can be divided into Physiological factors such as fear of failure and reprimand parents; and work related reasons such as large class sizes, the teacher, and Invigilator leniency. In addition, we introduced some recommendations to reduce cheating during the exams.
Keywords:
Cheating, Exams, Teacher, Invigilator, Student, Testing Hypotheses
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