Relationship Between Examination Malpractice and Undergraduates University Education Development in South-South Geo-Political Zone of Nigeria
Abstract
The study investigated relationship between examination malpractice and undergraduates university education in South-South geo-political zone in Nigeria. Correlational design was adopted. The population of the study consisted of 27,119 undergraduates in three universities in the South-South geo-political zone in Nigeria. A sample size of 443 students’ representing (1.73%) of the total population was selected through proportionate stratified random sampling technique. The instrument utilized for data collection in the study was a questionnaire tagged: Examination malpractice and undergraduates’ university education questionnaire (EMUUEQ) with ten (10) items. The validity of the instrument was carried out by the supervisor of the study and two experts in the departments of counseling and educational psychology and educational management of Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State. The reliability coefficient values of the instrument internal consistencies were obtained with the utilization of Cronbach’s Alpha method. The reliability coefficient values stood at .783 and .812 for examination malpractice and undergraduates university education respectively. The data were analyzed with the application of simple percentage analysis, model summary of simple regression analysis and Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMC) analysis for the demographic data, research question and hypothesis respectively with the support of the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 26. The study concludes that examination malpractice has significant relationship with undergraduates’ university education. In alignment with the conclusion, it was recommended that, students’ should not involve themselves in an examination malpractice as a result of its potentials to highly support their involvement in cult related activities in the university system.
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