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CAUSES AND EFFECTS OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE IN SOME TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING IN SOKOTO STATE
Mansur Ahmad, Ijeoma Bunmi Okoro, Udochukwu Okoro, Bello Abubakar, Yahanazu Ahmad, Mustapha Sahabi, Asmau Maishanu, Hussaina Abubakar

ABSTRACT
Despite all the efforts made to checkmate examination malpractice in our learning institutions, woefully examination malpractice contravene all educational attempts to curtail or completely eradicate it from the system. Nigeria has been granted unskilled graduates with Reliability, poor job performance, low productivity, qualification falsification, and certificate racketeering. The results show that 305 respondents representing 72% indicates introducing proper orientation for students about the effects of examination malpractice can eradicate/reduce examination malpractice in tertiary institutions, 350 respondents representing 82% show bribery/corruption in examination malpractice monitoring committee, invigilators, and supervisors by parents and students speed up examination malpractices, 325 respondents representing 76% shows unqualified lecturers/staff in tertiary institutions contribute to examination malpractice, 300 respondents representing 71% indicate emphasized paper qualification as a system of examination promotes examination malpractice, the result also shows that proper guidance and counseling, teachers registration council of Nigeria, Nigeria Union of Teachers and parents should wake up to their responsibilities in other to curtail the menace of examination malpractice in tertiary institutions of learning. Keywords: TRCN, tertiary, institution, examination, malpractice, education, students


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