E-Cheating Awareness and Attitudes of Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations’ (Ssce) Candidates in Ondo State, Nigeria (Published)

The study examined the E-cheating awareness and attitudes of senior secondary certificate examination’s (SSCE) candidates in Ondo state with the view of proffering solution to reported cases of examination malpractices in the study locate. The sample for the study comprised three hundred and ten (310) candidates selected from five coaching centres through purposive sampling techniques. Two research questions guided the study using two instruments named: Students’ E-cheating Awareness Questionnaire (SEAQ) and Students’ Attitude to E-cheating Scale (SAES). The instruments were given experts’ validation. The results were analyzed using frequency count and mean statistics. The result showed (mean=2.54) indicating that the SSCE candidates were aware that questions and answers were online prior to the day of their examinations and some students have access to SSCE questions and their answers through various websites. Further, the result indicated that larger proportion of the candidates (mean=3.52) had positive attitude to E-cheating with the opinion that cheating in examination was good and helped students to pass. The study found that the respondents were of the notion that since Nigerian leaders were corrupt, nothing is wrong in electronic cheating. It was therefore recommended that integrity clubs should be established in schools to develop in students’ examination ethics and help them to acquire the values of handwork that will checkmate their involvement in examination malpractices.

Amosun P. A. and Falade M. (2022) E-Cheating Awareness and Attitudes of Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations’ (Ssce) Candidates in Ondo State, Nigeria, Global Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Vol.10, No.10, pp.27-36

 

Keywords: : examination malpractice, attitude, awareness, e-cheating

Attitude of Botho University Sports Management Students towards the Sports Management Programme: A Critical Analysis and Reflection (Published)

The narrative on attitudes of students and how these attitudes shape and define how students behave in a learning situation has been a subject of heightened discussion in many academic fora. Studies show that how people react or respond to something is more often than not motivated by their attitude towards it. Literature is also abound with information related to attitudes of students towards sport and physical activity but very little if any of such literature captures issues of attitudes of university students towards Sports Management. This study therefore examined the attitudes of Botho University (BU) Sports Management students towards their sport management programme and causative factors to such attitudes. All students (N = 33) in the department of Sports Management were selected to participate in the study. A structured questionnaire that employed a 5-point Likert scale was used for data collection. Data collected was analysed using SPSS version 22. Results of the study showed that Sports Management students had very positive attitudes towards their programme and this was due to among others, state of the art resources they used for learning, a conducive learning environment at the university with technology that supports learning.

Keywords: Botho University, Programme, Sports Management, Students, attitude