An Assessment of the Effects of Examinational Practice amongst the Students of Umar Suleiman College of Education, Gashua, Yobe State, Nigeria

Abstract

This study is aimed to assess the examination Malpractice/misconduct among the students of Umar Suleiman College of Education Gashua. The study consists of two (2) research objectives and research questions were formulated and answered. The study employed descriptive survey research design and the population of the study consisted of NCE 1, NCE 11, and NCE 111 respectively. The research adopted both random and cluster sampling techniques in which NCE 1, NCE 11and NCE111 were selected from the three randomly selected NCE level. Therefore, the research revealed that there are poor supervision by the  college management examination committee during the examination, teacher's negligence to duty, inadequate commitment on the side of the teachers on invigilation during examination, and parental attitudes contribute seriously towards students engage in to examinational practice/misconduct, nature of examination conduct and how the examination been organized by the committee. The study recommended that the Students should be encouraged by both their parents and teachers to be more committed to their studies and to avoid examination malpractice and students should also be properly checked to ensure they enter the examination hall/venue without any unauthorized materials, and school officials, administrators, teachers should show more commitment to their duties and to help the students to understand the basic and current information on their subject of study this will minimize examination malpractice. Therefore, the paper recommends strongly that the Examination Malpractice Act of 1999 should be amended and implemented to incorporate that section of Decree 20 of 1984 which stipulated twenty-one years imprisonment without option of a fine for a convicted culprit.