From the evidence abound, I discovered the following factors as the causes of examination malpractice
i. Employment
of unqualified teachers
Teaching
profession is professionalized in theory, not in practice. This is because
unqualified and untrained teachers are always being employed into teaching
field.
For instance a person who majored in agricultural science, who suppose
to work in ministry of agriculture to boss to food production is employed into
teaching field. This type of teacher professionalize in agricultural science
not in teaching field.
ii. Lack
of regular payment to teachers
Lack
of prompt payment to teachers makes them to collaborate or involve themselves
into examination malpractice as a way to alleviate their financial
predicaments, since students will pay some money for question papers during
examination.
iii. Government
takes over of schools.
Ever
since the government took-over of school from churches and private individuals,
it has got large ministries to take-over of what today in Nigeria is government
owned property, public owned things in terms of proper care. As a result of
these, there is lack of properly equipped libraries, teaching materials and
qualified teachers to handle them. In-fact, the list of the evils wrought on our
society by the encourage of certificating unqualified, un-knowledgeable and
incompetent people to hold positions of responsibility in all facts of our
nations life is a contributing factor by the government to examination
malpractice.
iv. Nigerian
native of paper qualification or quest for materialism.
The
quest for materialism or paper qualification in Nigeria has contributed in no
small measure to skyrocket the rate of examination malpractice.
In
Nigeria today, what matters is did you clear your papers”. Not how did you get
it? In such condition, every Dick and Tom wants to pass, no matter the means.
v. Bad
Company
the
Bible says that he who walks the wise grows wiser but a companion of fools
suffers. A student always imitates what other students do. They are no more
hardworking and in order to avoid failure engage in examination malpractice.