ABSTRACT
This study is centered on the causes and effects of examination misconduct in secondary schools in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu State. In coming out the research, five research questions bordering on the causes of and effect examination misconduct where formulated. The researchers used random sample size of 150 respondents. Questionnaire was used in collecting data for the study. The data collected was analyzed using four points likert-type rating scale from the study analyzed it was found that teacher lack of commitment to duties. Emphasis on paper qualification. Lacks of teaching facilities are the main causes of examination misconduct. It was also found that examination misconduct gives false assessment of students and encourages laziness amongst students . Recommendation tampared examination misconduct and suggestion further research work on the topic where made.
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Inside the school hall in a typical Nigeria examination center, young men and women are seated with rest attention as they listen to a middle aged, well built man, clutching folder containing some sheets of papers. He is surrounded by other ladies and gentlemen who apparently are waiting for the man to give the go ahead to start the distribution of examination question papers and answer booklets. He clears his throat and pointing his fingers to nobody in particular as if sounding a warning to a recalcitrant child who refused to heed to his mother’s scolding “if you like go ahead and cheat in this examination misconduct will face twenty one years imprisonment”
This is the kind of ceremony that usually precedes examination examinations. Examination officials, invigilators school authorities as the case may be warn the candidates against examination misconduct.
Examination misconduct in Nigeria has attained a frightening proportion. It is sophisticated and institutionalized. Efforts by government administration and state-holders in the education sector to curtail the ugly trend have not yielded any fruit.
One of the peremial and most devastating problems militating against the educational system in Nigeria today is examination misconduct.
This phenomenon has been described in Denga and Denga (1998:3) as one of the cardinal forms of educational misconduct. The authors further termed it as an ugly canker and octopus that is rapidly assuming the status of a social, moral and educational epidemic in Nigeria.