Arab Educational Information Network

This article is about a phenomenon which threatens the integrity of the educational evaluation, mainly the national examinations, such as Baccalaureate and BEM. We found that the majority of the researches agreed that the main causes of cheating in exams are: hard courses, hard exams, time pressure, improving one’s chances, and fear of failure. Whereas the reasons which make the learners do not cheat: religious beliefs, moral values and fear from sanctions. After that I set the methods used by cheaters, all those techniques can be divided into two main groups: classical methods and methods based on technology. Finally, I tried to give solutions to the problem; good arrangement of the exam rooms, avoiding questions which make cheating easier like multiple choice questions, reinforcing the religious and moral values in the curriculums. (Published abstract)