Assessment of Challenges of CBT among Students in Nigerian Educational System

Abstract

This study examined the challenges of CBT among students in Nigerian educational system. This study made use of descriptive research design of survey type and the population of interest is the senior secondary school students that had experience CBT means of assessment. The sample is made up of 330 senior secondary school students that had experience CBT assessment. Simple random sampling technique was used to select the participants. Data were collected through the use of questionnaire tagged challenges of CBT among students in Nigerian educational system with reliability coefficient of 0.79. Section A consists of socio-demographic information while Section B consists of checklists of challenges of CBT among students in Nigerian educational system. The findings of the study showed that students took CBT assessment technique amidst a lot of challenges such as inadequate facilities, poor power supply, without computer technical knowhow, problems of far distance and insecurity of examination materials. Based on these findings the researcher concluded that CBT as one way of assessing learners has a lot of challenges. Therefore, the following recommendations were made that students must as a matter of necessity be able to learn how to use computer, government must make teaching of computer compulsory at secondary school level, power supply must be made available to every look and cranny of Nigeria cities, towns, villages and hamlets so as to be able to get electricity to power the computer for usage or alternative source of power must be made available in each school. Computer literacy must be part of requirements for teacher’s employability and pure computer teachers and computer literates personnel must be employed to teach computer in all secondary schools. In addition CBT centres must be owned by local, state or federal government to prevent insecurity of examination materials and examination malpractices that may arise from profit making individuals. The experts must be appointed to man each CBT centre to avoid break down of facilities and if there is any hitch these experts can quickly repair and make the system continue to work without wasting much time of examinees. The facilities like soft ware, hard ware and internet facility must be made available to prevent examination batching situation. Teachers should also adopt the pattern of the external examinations by exposing the students to CBT in the internal examinations to lessen examination anxiety. Professional and highly skilled computer science teachers should be recruited to help improve the computer skills of the students in the various secondary schools.

Keywords: Assessment, Challenges of CBT, Students, Educational System.