Quality Asurance: A Practical Solution To Examination Malpractices In Nigerian Secondary Schools

This paper focuses on quality assurance as a solution to examination malpractices in Nigerian secondary schools. An examination is an instrument for decision-making on the performance and consequently the job opportunity and educational advancement for an individual. Therefore, many examinees would want to pass by all means, their abilities notwithstanding. Examination malpractice occurs every year and it seems to have defied solutions. It has negative consequences on the examinees and the education system. Using quality assurance strategy, inputs of high standard teachers, students, facilities, curriculum and education policy into the education system would be ascertained. School managers are to monitor the inputs and ensure proper processing so that relevant and adequate knowledge would be acquired. Thus, this paper recommends that there should be quality inputs and processing of all resources. It also recommends that automatic promotion should be discouraged and that there should be moderate class-size