Counselling: A Strong Tool For Checking Examination Malpractice And Coping With Examination Anxiety
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Counselling: A Strong Tool For Checking Examination Malpractice And Coping With Examination Anxiety
ABSTRACT
Secondary school studentsPerceptions of examination malpractices and ethics were evaluated. Participants were chosen from secondary schools in Nigeria’s Benin Metropolis. The study found that the majority of students considered that engaging in examination malpractice was a widespread occurrence that would be difficult to abolish. Parents, teachers, and schools
Principals were discovered to encourage cheating on exams. The survey also indicated that the majority of the students had a very erroneous understanding of examination ethics; assuming that examination ethics entails, among other things, sitting next to someone to copy
from his or her paper in the exam hall. Counselling intervention strategies include school counsellors collaborating with school authorities and students to establish examination ethics clubs that teach the value of hard work, as well as school counsellors collaborating with parents/teacher associations and other stakeholders to promote the virtue of responsibility.
There is evidence of an increase in examination malpractices by students at
schools and colleges, which disagree with the basic objective of education, which is to train the
mind and character to acquire practical and theoretical skills, information, and
useful concepts for progress; as well as the search for truth, knowledge, and creativity
and the exchange of ideas (Nanna, 1997; Peterson, 1988, quoted in Aaron, 1992).
In Nigeria, the first publicly known example of examination misconduct was in 1914.
when question papers for the senior Cambridge local examination were leaked.
Since then, examples of abnormalities have been recorded on an annual basis. But, the outs—
The preceding years were 1963, 1967, 1970, 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1985, and 1987.
1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003 (West African Examination)
tion Council (2004).Examination Anxiety
The principal forms of examination misconduct cited are: impersonation; bringing in foreign resources (books, calculator); substituting worked scripts; theft.
Oluyeba and Daramola (1992) report instances of script conversion and misappropriation, examination hall cooperation (copying), organised cheating with support from teachers and outsiders, and insulting and assaulting supervisors and invigilators.
Examination Anxiety This tendency in examination misconduct is detrimental to academic development and advancement and must be addressed urgently. According to Ikupa (1997), examination malpractice occurs when someone engages in unethical activity while testing an examinee’s knowledge or aptitude through questions.
Examination Anxiety Oluyeba and Daramola (1992) stated that examination malpractices include the following: Examination malpractice is any irregular behaviour demonstrated by a candidate or any other person charged with the conduct of the examination before, during, or after the examination. Counselling’s involvement in determining eligibility for the exam.
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