ANALYSIS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH – WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA
ANALYSIS OF THE MANAGEMENT OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH – WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE, NIGERIA
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2015-09
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MUHAMMAD, Tanimu Ibrahim
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The study, “Analysis of the Management of examination malpractices in Colleges of
Education in North –West Geo-Political Zone, Nigeria,” was undertaken to find out the
Forms, Causes, Effects, Challenges and the Management of Examination Malpractices in
Colleges of Education in Nigeria in order to raise the status and integrity of the institutions
and the certificates issued. The various management of examination malpractice strategies
was captured in order to evolve new strategy possibly for the total eradication of the
problem. A total of 380 Students, Lecturers, Examination Officers and Head of Departments
were randomly selected from State and Federal Colleges of Education in the North West Geo
Political Zone, Nigeria. Participants were selected through Cluster Sampling Process. A
questionnaire comprising six sections was constructed. Three hundred and thirty (330) copies
of questionnaire were retrieved and the responses of participants were analyzed using
analysis of variance (ANOVA) after generating the frequency distributions, means, and
standard deviations. The five hypotheses of this research were tested at 0.05 level of
significance. The major findings of this study revealed, that there are different forms of
examination malpractices, including new forms of hi-tech exam cheats (MP3 and MP4) being
practice in the Colleges Education. That the causes of the cheating are many, popular among
them, are emphasis on certificate, poor examination paper setting, low salary level of
personnel (lecturers, typists, examination officers, etc) and inadequate preparation of
students. That, the effects of examination malpractices identified include lack of value of the
certificate issued, colleges were embarrassed with examination malpractice, decrease in job
efficiency, etc. That the Management Strategies employed by the Colleges are weak and
therefore, the problem persisted and more students tend to join in Examination Malpractices.
That, the challenges are enormous; increase in enrolment rate leading to over-crowdedness
in the examination rooms due to inadequate facilities, inadequate trained teachers, moral
decadence that penetrated the colleges, interference with investigation and punishment of the
culprits. In view of the findings the researcher developed two models, which if carefully and
diligently implemented may eradicate Examination Malpractices in Colleges of Education.
The models are teacher effectiveness model, which comprises input, process and output that
could produce a free Examination Malpractice environment. This model is cheap and safer
as there is no security challenge since the beneficiaries (students) receive what they want.
While the second model is on the high continuous assessment and feedback model. Finally,
suggestions for future studies are presented.
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO SCHOOL OF POST GRADUATE STUDIES AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA, IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (Ph.D) IN
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONS AND CURRICULUM,
FACULTY OF EDUCATION,
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
Keywords
ANALYSIS,, MANAGEMENT,, EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES,, COLLEGES,, EDUCATION,, EDUCATION,, NORTH – WEST GEO-POLITICAL ZONE,, NIGERIA