Examination malpractice is perpetrated by most stakeholders in the education sector of our nation. They include:
1. The Students: The primary culprits in this menace are the students themselves. Students are no longer hardworking, they have little or no interest in studying to know and studying to face examination on their own, they lack concentration, during studies, have poor study habits and are generally restless, lazy and easily distracted by activities in the environment. Most students care less about culture of hard work and academic excellence, and so become ill-prepared for most examinations. Students no longer have confidence in themselves to write and pas any examination, without cheating. Dishonesty has become the order of the day, while honesty during examinations is no longer a virtue to covet by students. Dishonesty in examination halls is now an acceptable behaviour and life style.
1. The Students: The primary culprits in this menace are the students themselves. Students are no longer hardworking, they have little or no interest in studying to know and studying to face examination on their own, they lack concentration, during studies, have poor study habits and are generally restless, lazy and easily distracted by activities in the environment. Most students care less about culture of hard work and academic excellence, and so become ill-prepared for most examinations. Students no longer have confidence in themselves to write and pas any examination, without cheating. Dishonesty has become the order of the day, while honesty during examinations is no longer a virtue to covet by students. Dishonesty in examination halls is now an acceptable behaviour and life style.
2. The Teachers: Often times, shamefully, some teachers who are supposed to be custodians of academic honesty and discipline, are perpetrators of examination malpractices in schools. Some shameless teachers help students during examination by bringing into examination rooms worked answers to the test items, writing the answers on the boards, and distracting invigilators/supervisors by offering refreshments in the teachers’ offices during examination to the officials. This is done with the sole aim of following the students to cheat at will during examinations with the full support and co-operation of teachers:
3. Parents and Guardians: Some parents/guardians and other significant others in the family also aid students to cheat during examinations. The parents become syndicate in perpetrating examination malpractice because they are the sole financiers of some the malpractice activities. They provide monies to their children/wards for payment to different persons and agents of examination malpractice. Often times, some parents go outright to negotiate with officials at examination centres to look the other way, and allow their wards to cheat in examination halls, or help in sending unauthorized materials to them. Some go directly to the examination bodies to negotiate higher scores for their children/wards.
4. School Administrators: Most school administrators in private, government and mission schools such as headmasters/headmistresses, principals often times are shamefully involved in examination malpractice to maintain “100% pass” in public examinations.
5. Private School Proprietors/Proprietresses: These groups of people take part in examination malpractice for the reasons of obtaining increase in enrolment for more personal financial benefits. Again, most proprietors/proprietresses of private school get involved in examination malpractices of various forms to increase or maintain the popularity in/of their schools.
6. The Government: The government at various levels also contributes indirectly to encourage examination malpractice in areas of poor condition of service to teachers and setting unrealistic and intimidation standards/expectations. Teachers are very poorly paid and so often engage in long strikes which often result in pupils/students staying more at home than being in schools, yet they have to face public examinations. Some state governments require their principals to record certain percentage pass by students in their schools or face sack, demotion or stagnation. Such policy definitely encourage cheating by principals.
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