VALUES ORIENTATION AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ATTITUDE TO EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE IN CROSS RIVER STATE, NIGERIA
Abstract
The study investigated values orientation and secondary school students’ attitude to examination malpractice in Cross River State, Nigeria. One (1) null hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance with 998 degrees of freedom using Pearson product moment correlation statistics. Ex-post facto research design was adopted for the study. A sample of one thousand (1000) students were randomly selected and used for the study. The selection was done through the stratified and simple random sampling techniques. The instrument used for data collection was a questionnaire titled “Values Orientation and Students’ Attitude to Examination Malpractices Questionnaire (VOSAEMQ)”. This was validated by experts in psychology and measurement and evaluation all from the Faculty of Education, University of Calabar. The reliability estimate of the instrument was established through the split-half reliability method which ranged from 0.90 to 0.94. The results of the analysis revealed that, values orientation significantly relates to students’ attitude towards examination malpractice in Cross River State. Based on the findings, it was recommended that seminars, workshops and symposia be organized to educate students against examination malpractices.
Keywords: formal test, examination malpractice, individual’s behaviour, learning disability, lecturers, secondary school students, urban students and their rural counterparts, ex-post facto research, etc.
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