Assessing Strategies For The Management Of Examination Malpractice Among Universities In Bayelsa State

Assessing Strategies For The Management Of Examination Malpractice Among Universities In Bayelsa State

Chapter One

Preface

Background of the study

Scholars largely agree that education is a tool for speeding individual, societal, and public development. It serves as a catalyst for the generation of information and chops necessary for the society’s actuality and sustainability. The Federal Government of Nigeria, in establishing advanced institutions as agents of socioeconomic change and public development, specified the following objects of tertiary institutions as enunciated in the public policy on educational. Contribute to public growth by furnishing high- position applicable pool training;b. produce and inseminate applicable values for individual and societal survival;c. enhance people’ intellectual capacity to comprehend and appreciate their original and external surroundings;d. develop both physical and internal capacities that will allow people to be tone- sufficient and productive members of society;e. support and promote academics and community service;f. produce and maintain public concinnity and encourage, understanding and engagement on a public and worldwide scale( Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2004). These pretensions could only be met in a literacy terrain free of unethical geste by both faculty and scholars. therefore, unethical geste is defined as any geste that’s interdicted by law( Civil Service Commission of Philippines, 2000). It also indicates that it’s a innocently discordant or fairly interdicted geste . An undesirable geste , a poor conduct, or an unlawful act that’s penalized by law. According to Ogunleye( 2000), unethical conduct occurs when choices allow an individual or group to profit at the cost of society as a whole. Giving weight to this, Cumming, Maddux, Cleborne, and Dyas( 2002) noted that allowing scholars to engage in incorrect or unethical working procedures would hurt their unborn employment, produce profitable damages, and detriment to other people’s reports. This is due to scholars’ comprehensions of academic deceitfulness as commodity they frequently engage in( Sankaran and Bui, 2003). test malpractices, plagiarism, undermining associates and peers group work, unlawful use of academy computers to alter sanctioned scores, online copying and pasting, and other kinds of academic deceitfulness live. In the environment of this exploration, ethical geste is a desirable moral kind of legal geste from a professional. This is to state that academy ethics are intended to offer indifferent tutoring and literacy openings for all scholars and speakers in order to negotiate its specific points and objects, as well as the public education pretensions in general( Nwakpa, 2010). As a result, engaging in examination malpractice is original to failing to achieve educational objects. Examination malpractice, according to Asinya( 2012), is a massive and unknown abuse of rules and regulations pertaining to internal and public examinations, beginning with the setting of similar examinations and continuing through the taking of the examinations, their marking and grading, and the release of results and the allocation of instruments. Dalton( 2006) noted that unethical geste has entered the fabric of the scholars, as colorful styles and ways are used to help themselves and their fellow scholars in return for for fiscal satisfaction. With the preface of new styles and styles similar as impersonation, roughneck, gangsterism, and physical assault, the use of mercenaries and the detention in the launch of examinations, observing or giraffing, carrying banned accoutrements to examination halls, configured calculators, illegal dispatches, and the exchange of answer pamphlets, examinations, or question papers, Dalton, 2006; Alutu, & Aluede, 2005) To further discourage staff from accepting financial and material impulses from parents, guidance, scholars, and others who might want to destabilize the examination process, Dalton( 2006); McCabe, Trevino, and Butterfield( 2001) proposed that in every examination setting, each invigilator be assigned to one to twenty scholars, and that changes in scholars’ sitting arrangements should always be made. still, since the commencement of tertiary education in Nigeria, colorful studies on scholars’ unethical geste have been conducted; still, to the stylish of the experimenter’s knowledge, no empirical studies on strategies for managing examination malpractice as scholars’ unethical geste in tertiary institutions in Bayelsa State have been conducted. This has created a knowledge gap, which this exploration aims to close. This exploration is intended to critically estimate the styles for controlling test misconduct among university scholars in Bayelsa State against this background and in fulfillment of the objects of tertiary institutions.

Statement Of Exploration Problem

From the environment, it’s clear that examination malpractice as unethical pupil geste isn’t a new miracle at advanced institutions. This unethical geste manifests itself in a variety of ways, including impersonation, roughneck, gangsterism, and physical assault, the use of mercenaries and the detention in the launch of examinations, observing or giraffing, bringing banned accoutrements to examination halls, configured calculators, illegal dispatches, and the exchange of answer pamphlets, examinations, or question papers, among others. These heinous acts and conditioning in advanced education have led in a deterioration in the position and quality of education. This drop in tertiary education quality has urged a number of empirical exploration on how to control test misconduct as well as scholars’ unethical geste in order to attain qualitative education( Alutu, & Aluede, 2005). Despite these findings, the increase in examination malpractice as a result of scholars’ unethical conduct at advanced institutions of literacy continues unabated( Dalton, 2006). This has urged the question,” Have any styles for managing examination malpractice in tertiary institutions been linked?” likewise, several empirical studies have been conducted in Bayelsa State since the establishment of tertiary institutions, but to the stylish of the experimenter’s knowledge, none has been conducted to ascertain the strategies for managing examination malpractice as scholars unethical geste in tertiary institutions in the state, therefore the gap this exploration study intends to fill. The thing of this exploration is to look at the styles for dealing with test misconduct among university scholars in Bayelsa State.

Objects Of The Study

The primary ideal of the study is as follows

1. To find out the causes of test malpractice among university scholars in Bayelsa

2. To find out the effect of test malpractice among university pupil in Bayelsa

3. To examine the strategies used to manage test malpractice among university scholars

4. To find out ways test malpractice can be canceled among pupil in Bayelsa universities

Exploration Thesis

1. What are the causes of test malpractice among university scholars in Bayelsa?

2. What are the effect of test malpractice among university pupil in Bayelsa?

3. What are the strategies used to manage test malpractice among university scholars?

4. What are the ways test malpractice can be canceled among pupil in Bayelsa universities?

Significance of the study

The significance of this study can not be undervalued as

l This study will examine strategies for the operation of examination malpractice among Universities in Bayelsa state

l The findings of this exploration work will really give the important demanded information to government associations, radio stations, broadcasting commission and academia.

Compass Of The Study

This study will examine strategies for the operation of examination malpractice among University scholars in Bayelsa state. Hence it’ll be demarcated to Niger delta university.

Limitations of the study

This study was constrained by a number of factors which are as follows

just like any other exploration, ranging from attainability of demanded accurate accoutrements on the content under study, incapability to get data

Financial constraint, was faced by the experimenter, in getting applicable accoutrements and in printing and collation of questionnaires

Time factor time factor disguise another constraint since having to shuttle between jotting of the exploration and also engaging in other academic work making it uneasy for the experimenter

Functional Description Of Terms

Strategy a plan of action designed to achieve a long- term or overall end.

Operation the process of dealing with or controlling effects or people.

Examination malpractice any deliberate act of wrong doing, contrary to the rules of examinations designed to give a seeker an overdue advantage.