Examination Malpractice and Recommended Penalties in Nigerian Tertiary Institutions A Case Study of Kwara State College of Education, Oro

Abstract

The study is on the empirical investigation of Examination Malpractice and recommended penalties in Kwara State College of Education, Oro. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study consists of 64 lecturers and 64 students drawn from the 32 departments in the College. The instrument for data collection was a 25-item structured questionnaire. The instrument was subjected to validation by two experts. Cronbach Alpha was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.82. Data collected for the study were analysed descriptively, using mean and standard deviation to answer the five research questions. From the data collected and analysed, the study found that both lecturers and students are in total support of appropriate recommended sanctions/penaltiees such as issuing of warning letter, suspension, expulsion and hand over to the police for the prosecution of the candidates involved in examination malpractice. Among others, it was recommended that good moral values should be properly inculcated into the students and enhanced salary should be paid to lecturers, and special welfare packages given to examination officials.