The
need of the study is to find out the solution on the eradication of examination
malpractice schools and the society in general. There is also acute need for
the entire public examination malpractice to the nation, the educational
system, the parents, children and employers of labour.
The
findings of this research will infact be of a great help and value to the
society and students who would prefer to carry out research in this research
particularly here in Ikwo.
From
the result of the findings, the research discovered the factors involved in the
rate examination malpractice infiltration in secondary schools within the
geographical domain of Ikwo
Local Government Area as:- Employment of
unqualified teachers, lack of regular payment to teachers, Government take over
of schools, Nigeria nature of paper qualification or quest for materialism, bad
company.
Other
factors includes decline in reading habit by students and laziness.
Furthermore,
the researcher also find that lack of libraries and teaching aids help to draws
the teaching and learning zeal backward and make the students to loose internet
in serious studying hereby looking for a cut tagged ‘Expo’. To worsen the
situation, it was discovered by the researcher through observation that at this
era of free education, where every dicks, Tom and Harry wants to bag
certificate by any means contributes to farming the flame of examination
malpractice in our secondary schools.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
For
examination malpractice to be eradicated in educational system, teaching should
be and get registered. From thence examination misconduct punishable by
approval of the name of the culprit from the register who would then be banned
from practicing for life. Where malpractices are detected the authority
concerned should have the boldness to handover the offenders to law enforcement
authority who should bring them before the special tribunal to face the
miscellaneous offenses Degree of 1984 paper qualifications should be d-emphasized because Nigerian employers have been labeled as those armored of
certificated plain flowered, embossed with little or no insight into the
applicant‘s prospective productivity. This will remove the stigma that students
who fail their examinations are necessarily human failures.
The
society should be re-orientate its values. The adults members should abandon
the machiavellian philosophy of life that states that the end justified the
means.
Improving
continuous assessment practices in schools.
A
new scoring techniques can be experimented on this will minimize guessing,
reward natural knowledge and improve test reliability. Provision of parents e.g
textbook, writing material, good uniform etc. There should be empowerment on
the teaching-learning environment. There should be reduction of the larger
teacher-student ratio. Adequate school infrastructure, effective teaching,
student-teacher dialogue, over learning institutions to create conductive
atmosphere for effective teaching and learning so that students can sit for
examination with confidence and self-assurance of passing.
The
school counselors should make effort to help the student should make effort to
help the student to develop self-understanding, self-fulfillment, self-clarification
and self-determination.
The
counselors should also give counseling to the students on the implication of
examination malpractice through orientation programme, workshop training,
school clubs, societies, prize giving days etc.
Finally, some diligent students who practice
examination malpractices should be given individual counseling so as to stop
their malpractice behaviours and schools should be handled over to churches for
proper supervision and maintenance. Also any student who failed at an examination
attempt should not develop to phobia towards failure but will succeed next
time.