Examination Malpractice
CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The quest for exploration into “the effect of examination malpractice among the sociology student of University of Abuja” is borne out of the concern for the need for improvement/provision of enabling a good conducive environment that is conducive for the writing of examination and to avoid malpractice.
In any given society, there are rule guiding the behavior of individuals as well as rights which give the people the freedom to express them. So also is an education environment, where student come to learn both in character and in learning and where they interact with other student lectures.
The education system is the instrument a society uses to equip its entire people to lead productive public lives and full personal lives according to their talent and interest. This system but is such that gifted individuals have full opportunity to develop their skills; it must give scope for the training of a student or leadership group and at the same time period for the development of all the vocational abilities needed for the creation of a progressive and democratic society.
Education is the general sense cover the whole life of an individual from birth till death or from cradle to grave that shows that education is as old as man on earth. The formal school system is greatly influenced in it result on the life of all who pass through it.
The quality of education that is impact to our youth and the priority at which we rate it contribute largely to the information of the attitudes they carry over into public life. So whatever kind of seed sow in the classroom/ lecture halls, the manner in which we nurture it and the strength which it imbibes in its various stages of growth will all determine the harvest that the nation will reap in the form of its educated youth coming out of the schools, colleges and universities.
Thus an examination system is needed to test the skill the students have learned through the period of
INTRODUCTION
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
The quest for exploration into “the effect of examination malpractice among the sociology student of University of Abuja” is borne out of the concern for the need for improvement/provision of enabling a good conducive environment that is conducive for the writing of examination and to avoid malpractice.
In any given society, there are rule guiding the behavior of individuals as well as rights which give the people the freedom to express them. So also is an education environment, where student come to learn both in character and in learning and where they interact with other student lectures.
The education system is the instrument a society uses to equip its entire people to lead productive public lives and full personal lives according to their talent and interest. This system but is such that gifted individuals have full opportunity to develop their skills; it must give scope for the training of a student or leadership group and at the same time period for the development of all the vocational abilities needed for the creation of a progressive and democratic society.
Education is the general sense cover the whole life of an individual from birth till death or from cradle to grave that shows that education is as old as man on earth. The formal school system is greatly influenced in it result on the life of all who pass through it.
The quality of education that is impact to our youth and the priority at which we rate it contribute largely to the information of the attitudes they carry over into public life. So whatever kind of seed sow in the classroom/ lecture halls, the manner in which we nurture it and the strength which it imbibes in its various stages of growth will all determine the harvest that the nation will reap in the form of its educated youth coming out of the schools, colleges and universities.
Thus an examination system is needed to test the skill the students have learned through the period of