The Law On Examination Malpractice: Threat To Educational Integrity And National Development African Journal of Law, Ethics and Education [AJLEE] Vol. 9, No. 2
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The menace of examination malpractice in the Nigerian Educational Sector has become an ugly infectious pandemic permeating the foundation of quality education in Nigeria. It is a threat to the integrity of the examination process and national development as products of flawed assessment invariably come into the society as professionals with flawed certificates. This paper sets out to unravel whether this assumption represents the current state of affairs in Nigerian educational institutions noting that examination malpractice appears to have gone digital as students are seen to manipulate registration photos of their image to merge two faces, thereby confusing facial recognition software; engage in digital cheating, script substitution, influencing results after the exam.
The paper argued that the use of electronic gadgets and the advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) have expanded the horizon from conventional malpractice to unconventional malpractice. The authors contended that this modern trend of examination
malpractice not only affects the students but also the educational sector and national development requiring extensive legal, systematic policy solutions and that it has become imperative for the instrumentality of the law to be deployed to eradicate the menace by punishing persons or entities that engages in any act of examination malpractices. The use of doctrinal research methodology will be employed by focusing on legal analysis of statutes, textbooks, case laws, and journals.
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