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Date Submitted: 02/21/2011 01:26 AM
One of the objectives of education in
Nigeria is to prepare the young ones
to face future challenges and develop
them to meet the nation ’s manpower
requirements.
Schools need to conduct examinations as
yardstick for assessment.
Examination is a formal test of somebody’s
knowledge or ability in a particular subject,
especially by means of answering
questions or practical exercises. It is also
seen as the process through which
students are evaluated or tested to find out
the quality of knowledge they have
acquired within a specified period.
Examinations could be internal or external.
It could be oral, written or both. Examples
of internal examinations are Continuous
Assessment Scores (CAS), terminal,
semester and annual or promotion
examination. Examples of external (public)
examinations common in Nigerian schools
are Common Entrance Examination for
admission into secondary schools, school
certificate examination are conducted by
West African Examination Councils (WAEC)
and National Examination Council (NECO).
The Joint Admission and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) and National Teachers Istitute
(NTI), National Business and Technical
Examination Board (NABTEB) conduct
professional examinations for teachers and
technicians respectively.
Nigeria’s education system like any other
country has its problems, lapses,
controversies and issues. Many problems
confront Nigeria educational system and
institutions. Prominent among them is the
issue of examination malpractice.
Public campaigns and enlightenment
programmes embarked on by
government and non-government
organizations on the need for elimination of
examination malpractice have not yielded
the desired results, not even the
introduction of jail terms for culprits.
Examination malpractice is a kind of
conduct that violates the acceptable laid
down rules and regulations of Nigerian
institutions. On the other hand,
examination malpractice is any wrong
doing before, during or...