Bwari (FCT) – The Joint Admission
and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has suggested the adoption of Computer Based
Test (CBT) in the conduct of public examinations to improve the standard of
education .
This is contained in a statement
issued on Monday in Abuja by Mr Fabian Gabriel, Head, Public Relations Unit of
JAMB.
The statement said that JAMB was
determined to give equal opportunity to candidates who are desirous of
qualitative education.
It also described CBT as the best
mode of e-examination, especially in the conduct of such examinations in
prisons.
“The Board conducted the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination on CBT mode for 250 prisoners.
“This was administered to prisoners
in Ikoyi and Kaduna, who were at the verge of completing their jail terms.
“The Board has deployed its systems
and computers to the prisoners for the examination to be conducted without
hitches.
“The examination at the prisons is
part of our resolve to meet global expectations of reformative institution and
remolding of repented prisoners to pursue their educational careers,’’ the
statement said.
It said that the conduct of
examinations for prisoners through CBT was part of the Board’s corporate social
responsibility based on the peculiar nature and confinement of inmates.
The statement said that the CBT
examination which started on Saturday May 17, would end on Monday, June 2.
It urged all Nigerians to support the
drive to revamp the nation’s education, while assuring that there was no going
back on the full blown CBT, come 2015.
Also the African Pride Empowerment
Empire, an NGO, on Saturday commended the Joint Matriculation Examination Board
(JAMB) for introducing the Computer-Based Test (CBT) to check examination
malpractice in Nigeria.
The organisation’s president, Mr
Godwin Uwagbale, gave the commendation while speaking on the sidelines of its
reach out to students campaign in some schools in Lagos.
Uwagbale said the introduction would
to a large extent curb the prennial problem of examination malpractice and
advised students to shun it to attain desirable intellectual heights in
society.
He said that examination malpractice
militated against academic progress as it always made children less intelligent
and to display false high grades.
“No developed country in the world
can attain any form of advantage through examination malpractice, it is only
those without vision that subscribe to it,” he said.
According to Uwagbale, the current
JAMB’s CBT is a bold step in curbing examination malpractice.
“I commend JAMB for introducing the
CBT to complement the paper-based test which has been an easy prey to
malpractice.
“So far, from what we have seen, the
computer-based tests centres are not places for malpractice, it is a plus
for the board,” he said.
He noted that though there were some
challenges in the computer-based exercise, other examination boards should
borrow a leaf from JAMB.
Uwagbale urged parents and teachers to
discourage their children and students from getting involved in the menace
before it destroyed the country’s educational standard.
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