Basrah University organizes a workshop entitled( Motives and methods of cheating in university exams and ways of treatment)

The College of Education for Pure Sciences, under the supervision of the Educational Counseling and Psychological Guidance Unit, in cooperation with the Center for Development and Continuing Education, and coinciding with the end of the second semester of the academic year 2022_2023, marked us with the start of practical and theoretical final exams.
On Wednesday, 3-5-2023
The aim of the symposium is to educate students about the seriousness of trying to cheat students in the exam and to introduce them to the deterrent laws for this case within the exam laws and instructions in Iraqi universities.
Enhancing their self-confidence to take exams and succeed in them by peaceful means that are in line with the provisions of the university campus, moral values, and religious motives, and introducing them to ways to detect cheating by analyzing the student’s handwriting and signature, and comparing it with others, analyzing the types of means used in cheating, and discovering loopholes that are conclusive evidence of attempted fraud, and discussing them in Their motives to resort to attempting to deceive and guide them to ways of treatment and rely on their academic achievement, seriousness and diligence in order to succeed and excel in their academic stages
The workshop included the following topics:
The first axis
Forgery, counterfeiting and detection methods
Colonel Dr. Basem Muften Awahid
Basrah  Police Directorate - Criminal Evidence Department
The second axis
Examination instructions for dealing with cases of fraud
The most important studies and research that dealt with the problem of student cheating
Dr. Amal Ali Yassin - College of Education for Pure Sciences - Department of Life Sciences
Third axis
Psychological motives behind the phenomenon of cheating
Lecturer Noura Nasser Hameed - College of Education for Pure Sciences - Department of Chemistry
fourth Axis
Ways to address student cheating in universities
Lecturer Wijdan Yassin Abdul Karim, College of Education for Pure Sciences - Department of Computer Science
Lecturer Sarah Aref Kamel - College of Education for Pure Sciences - Department of Chemistry
Recommendations
The need for the participation of members of the Criminal Evidence Committee in investigation committees in cases of fraud.
The necessity of communication between students and their teachers in educational counseling in order to identify their academic problems and work to overcome them.
Relying on a variety of new methods in students' academic achievement and different evaluation criteria to know the real level of students.