Examination malpractice continues to pose a social malaise among students and the examiners, it gets worse amid concerted efforts to curb it. The Head of Nigeria Office of WAEC in Nigeria, Amos Dangut in an interview with LEADERSHIP stated that examination malpractice can be curbed if there are concerted efforts from the players involved.
The HNO in a statement from Ag Head, Public Affairs, Moyosore Adeshina stated that “Students need to set goals of achieving success with integrity ahead of time. This will motivate them to study and make consultations or ask necessary questions. The onus, really lie on the students to decide to study to excel in all examinations and be satisfied with the results he or she gets.
“On the part of parents, they should bring up their children on the paths of integrity and teach them the dignity of labour. Parents should provide the necessary resource materials and personnel services needed, and monitor how the children prepare. In curbing examination malpractice among students, I feel there should be a collaborative state of emergency on indiscipline as this is endemic and has bred the hydra headed monster of corruption that has affected all sectors in our nation.”
The WAEC Chief added that continuous exam malpractice is linked to students being lazy and the loss of values from the home. “This is also seen in the entire society where everyone wants to become a sudden successful man or woman without diligently going through the process.
Go to schools both public and private secondary schools and observe how the students are conducting themselves and their determination to excel in their studies. The high rate of examination malpractice is just a symptom of the decadence in our moral values and efforts should be made by all parties to correct it.”
An educationist, Michael Omisore also stated that since examination is the yardstick to test promotion of students to a higher level of education, then all parties must ensure it is conducted in the purest way and the results should reflect on the effort of the students who were examined.
”For academic progress, the average student must scale a hurdle that examination poses. Examination malpractice is a product of the system and there should be concerted efforts made to curb it by punishing the persons involved in a way that it will act as deterrent to others,” says Omisore.
