Examination misconducts: A threat to sustainable national development
National development concerns all Nigerians, the nation continues development is threaten by the disturbing rate of continues abuse of the widely believed to be most convenient, cheap, reliable and consistent means of measuring the level of intelligence of students i.e. examination in various institutions of learning. These wrong acts (examination misconducts) is perpetrated by parents or guardians who buy papers or bribe examiners/invigilators, educators who collect money and turn a blind eye, lazy students who do not take their studies serious and still desire to get the best score, the examiners who set and mark the papers, typist of the questions papers, printer who supervise printing arrangements or transport printed questions, supervisors who supervise the conduct of the examinations, invigilator at the centers/halls, proprietors, school systems such as Colleges, Monotechnics, Polytechnics and Universities are all guilty of various examination misconducts. Societal misfits, low standard of education, unsustainable education and community, unproductive societies, Insularity of Nigeria school systems from the global academic world and others are the results. More effort is required to combat Examination misconducts for the realization of the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable nation growth. The paper looks into current examination misconducts such as assault on examination officials, and offering money to examiner as inducements among others; factors encouraging it; it effects on nation building and challenges; and suggest ways of overcoming examination misconducts.
Student Cheating Habits: A Predictor Of Workplace Deviance
Unethical behavior seems to be increasing exponentially in every facet of today’s business environment. Property and production deviance are just two of the unethical behaviors exhibited by employees. According to a study conducted by S. Nonis and C. Swift (2001), students who engage in dishonest acts in college classes are more likely to engage in dishonest acts in the workplace. Research conducted during the three year period 2002 - 2005 by Don McCabe in conjunction with The Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University reveals that 70 percent of the 50,000 undergraduate students surveyed admit to some cheating (McCabe 2005). This article reports the results of a student survey documenting the self-reported cheating habits of business and non-business majors and their reported involvement in deviant activities in the workplace. The research indicates that a higher percentage of non-business majors report cheating on tests and homework than business majors and students who cheat in high school and/or college are more likely to engage in certain deviant behaviors in the workplace. In addition, the article also compares the percentage of students engaging in property and production deviance with the results of an earlier study by R. C. Hollinger and J. P. Clark examining workplace deviance among employees in the retail sector.
Historias de mi barrio: contemporary art in a community at high risk of social exclusion
Abstract Historias de mi barrio is a piece of pedagogic research aimed at highlighting the way art can articulate the relationship between the educational context and a neighbourhood at high risk of social exclusion. The starting point for this study was to ask whether this type of research, centred around the arts, was suitable in complex contexts and whether it might eventually lead to pedagogic improvement. The results gathered, and indeed the work carried out by the artists and university lecturers involved, together with pupils 6–12 years old and their instructors in a state school, provide evidence of a positive answer – and notably of the necessity of knowing about the socio-economic reality of the student cohort when planning learning projects and of the importance of the arts as a crucial element in education.