CURBING THE MENACE OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE IN SENIORSECONDARY SCHOOL EXTERNAL EXAMINATION IN NIGERIA USINGCLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION (CCTV)

Abstract

Examination  malpractice  has  become  a  deadly  cankerworm  eating  up  the  fabric  of  our educational system. The increase in the rate of involvement in this menace is not only limited to the number of students participating in it but also in the technique use and in the caliber of people practicing it. It has now become practically impossible to depend on any category of people for lasting solution since corruption has eaten up deck and harry of our society today. Technology  can be  of good  help.   This paper  examines the possibility  of using  modern technology – Close Circuit Television to curb the examination malpractice. A survey research approach was adopted by using structured, five Likert scale questionnaire with 19 items drawn from three research questions for data collection. Descriptive statistic in SPSS was used for analysis of the responses from the respondents. The result shows that digital closed circuit television  is  one  of the  powerful  modern  technologies  that  can  be  used  to  monitor  any examination with the goal of having minimum cases of examination malpractice. Modern CCTV has the potential to checkmate the activities of the students, invigilators and supervisors in the exam hall since it has provision for remote monitoring, footage recording, motion detection  and  a  very  high  resolution  that  will  make  denial  of  any  involvement  nearly impossible. Installation of modern CCTV in all the halls use for eternal examination such as WAEC, NECO and NABTEB is the major recommendation of this paper.