Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of 
investigating educational cheating and student cheating in the 
framework of a causal model considering religious and moral 
variables.
Materials and methods: The participants of the research 
included 300 people (134 boys and 166 girls) from Shiraz 
University, who used Gluck and Stark religiosity 
questionnaires, McCabe and Treviño's academic dishonesty 
scale, Boffard et al.'s academic goal orientation questionnaire, 
and Miltiadis' moral orientation questionnaire. completed The 
data was analyzed using structural equation modeling method 
by Amos software version 22.
Findings: The findings showed that all three variables of 
adherence to religion, academic goal orientation and goal 
orientation are negative predictors of academic dishonesty. 
Also, there is a positive relationship between the variables of 
adherence to religion and academic goal orientation, and 
between the variables of adherence to religion and moral 
orientation. Path coefficients for the variable of adherence to 
religion and academic dishonesty - 6/, the variable of 
adherence to religion and moral orientation 0.91, the variable 
of adherence to religion and academic goal orientation 0.94, 
the variable of moral orientation to academic dishonesty - 35/ 
and the variable of academic goal orientation to Academic 
dishonesty was found to be -0.58, all of which were significant 
at the 01/ level.
Conclusion: In general, it can be concluded that students' 
religious beliefs, adherence to moral values, and having a goal 
and motivation in education are effective in avoiding cheating 
in education, as well as being honest