Probe on cheating in the examinations : a small- scale case study

Abstract EN

The primary concern of the current paper is to attempt to disclose the underlying reasons behind students’ decision to perpetuate a desperate, perilous, and unethical act to gain advantage of some sort to assure success.

It attests that both subjective and objective factors coelesce to engender cheating in the examination.

Furthermore, it could me claimed that students are conditioned to cheat as the course materials prove to be hard to grasp, confusing, boring, poorly explained and delivered.

In the same vein, it appears that teachers do not plan to train students to answer their examination papers.

This is most aggravated by the students’ feeling that their teachers do not seem to be fair in scoring and fail to come up with thorough feedback.