EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE: IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY SECONDARY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

Abstract

This paper examined the menace of examination malpractices in Nigerian secondary schools and its implications for quality assurance. This hydra-headed monster has grown so much out of proportion today; especially in our secondary schools that concerned members of the society have become so perturbed on the credibility of certificates gotten from our secondary schools and even the future of Nigerian educational system as a whole which appears to be in serious danger due to the menace of examination malpractices. Among the numerous causes of examination malpractices as identified by this paper are undue emphasis place on certificates in Nigerian society, lack of adequate infrastructural and instructional facilities in schools coupled with poor teaching/learning habit.  The paper therefore advocates among others as remedies to examination malpractices the imposition of tougher sanction against candidates or any perpetrators of examination frauds.  Also, emphasis should be placed on skill accusation rather than paper qualification as it were in Nigerian society.