Factors Responsible for Students Examination Misconduct in Colleges of Education in Bauchi State, Nigeria

Maitala Maikano, Musa Yakubu Lame

Abstract


The study was set to determine the factors responsible for students' examination misconduct in colleges of education in Bauchi State, Nigeria. The increased rate of examination misconduct has posed a great threat to the validity and rehabilitation of examination results and certificates, which has led to producing graduates who lack the right types of values and attitudes needed for survival in a globalized economy. The aim of the study was to develop and test a causal model of factors responsible for students’ examination, and misconduct in colleges of education in Bauchi State, Nigeria. two research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study, the hypotheses were tested at a 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study comprised 2889 NCE three students. The Yamane formula was used in the determination of sample size and then simple random sampling was used to select 351 students from the two schools. The instrument used for data collection was tagged Examination Misconduct Assessment Questionnaire (EMAQ). The data collected were analyzed using the path analysis method using SPSS Amos. The findings revealed that the saturated model is not different from the default model. The result also revealed that the school factor has the highest percentage of the direct effect on examination misconduct; while the societal factor has the highest indirect effect on examination misconduct. It was recommended that schools should provide the necessary fund and facilities in order to reduce the rate of examination malpractice.


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