Phenomenological survey of causes of student tendencies to academic cheating and cheating methods from perspective and experiences of cheater students

The aim of this research was the explanation of cheater student’s experience and perspective regarding.
methods and causes of tendencies to academic cheating .research method was qualitative with Interpretive phenomenology. Procedures were semi-structured interviews that were done upon 32 cheater students from different gender and grades. In this method¡ cheater students state their experiences on this subject.
Findings: two main theme and 21 sub-themes extracted from data that could become cheating causes from the student’s perspective. the themes were:1-internal and personal factors; academic weakness¡ lake of trust in information¡ not being humiliated among friends¡ not obtaining low scores¡ Try to improvement the score and recovery Test level¡ and....2-contextual and external factors; difficulty of tasks and lessons¡ class and classroom atmosphere¡ parents press and....both male and female students declare academic weakness¡ cheating of classmates¡ not contempt among friends and Not low score¡ Improve scores¡ effect of classroom climate and classmates¡ and difficulty of tasks and lessons as academic cheating causes. The most widely used methods for academic cheating were; Replacement sheet of examination¡ writing answers on Kleenex¡ writing from friends sheets¡ writing answers in the hands¡ registration on the calculator¡ and cheating by stealthy use of textbooks.