CHAPTER
ONE
Introduction
1.1
Background
of the study
Examination is the term that refers to
an organized testing procedure, which yields information that can be used for
evaluating a candidate, or a test or examination is an assessment intended to
measure a test-takers knowledge, skill, aptitude, physical fitness, or
classification in many other topics (example, beliefs). A test may be
administered orally, on paper, on a computer, or in a confined area that
requires a test taker to physically perform a set of skills. Examination may be
classified into various ways; may be describe as formative or summative,
internal or external, verbal or non-verbal, formal or informal examination and
so on, the essence of taking examination is to enable the school authority;
parents and students concentrate in order to pass tier examination.
The issue of examination malpractice
is one of the major problems confronting Nigerian educators today. The search
for solution to cases of examination malpractice in our institution is
therefore timely.
Ahmed
(199) observed that there was evidence that examination malpractice existed in
the pre-independence era as far back as 1910. It has been noted that the first
recorded incident of examination malpractice in Nigeria was the leakage of the
Cambridge school certificate examination in 1914. Ahmed confirms that further
irregularities in public examination kecured in 1970, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1981,
and 1991 were said to have call the attention of the federal government, this
subsequently Sebegtan and Ojo tribunals required to investigate the extent of
leakage. Similarly, Decree so was eventually promulgated in 1984 to punish the
examinees or examiners found guilty. Yet malpractice of all kind have continued
to surface, to the extent that students no longer see it as a serious offence.
Examination
malpractice makes the objects by competence, skills, job displacement and
diagnosis of academic failure useless. One of the major effects of examination
malpractice is that, students not tend to be lazy and gradually the culture of
learning in our educational institutions is been eroded.
Examination malpractice is a major challenge
confronting the Nigeria education system in this twenty first century. Examination
malpractice is any act by student invigilators, examiners, lecturers etc. that
contravenes the ethics of examination and result in a dearth of credibility of
any assessment. The federal ministry of education (2007) defined examination
malpractices as “any act of integrity of any assessment or evaluation system.”
In 1973, the gravity of irregularities at public examination caused member
countries of the west African examination council much concern to extent that
the then federal military government had to promulgate a decree spelling out
penalties for unethical behaviours at the then West African school certificate
examination. For instance, unethical behaviour such as illegal use of live
question paper and impersonation were punishable by fine of N 2,000,00 or five
years imprisonment or both, (Nwana, 1982).
In
1984, the Federal Government of Nigeria enacted the famous decree
20-miscellaneous offences, which stipulates a 21 years imprisonment without any
option of fine for anyone caught in any form of examination malpractice. In
such attendant punishments one should expect to have an end to examination
leakages but unfortunately it is to no avail. Examination malpractice permeates
both internal and public examination. There have been known cases of school
teachers set question for their student favorites before the actual examination
are conducted. There are cases of dons passing female undergraduates because of
some extra academic activities between them (Eze, 1982).
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