Cheat in secondary education between causes and solutions

Abstract

This study aims to diagnose the most important reasons for the spread of the phenomenon of cheating in exams from the point of view of secondary school students in Oran state. The descriptive and comparative approach was adopted and the research sample consisted of 68 randomly selected students. To collect the data, we built a form of 18 questions representing the various causes of fraud and their psychometric characteristics were confirmed. The results resulted in a range of reasons leading to the spread of the phenomenon of fraud and no differences were recorded due to the factor of sex and specialization as reasons for the spread of the phenomenon of fraud. From this point of view, a set of recommendations and suggestions was presented.