WAEC To Deploy CCTV Cameras At Exam Centres

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West African Examination Council (WAEC), the examinations regulatory body in the sub-region, will from this year resort to the use of technology to augment its fight against examination malpractices.

According to WAEC, it will deploy closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras at its examination centres to help in curbing the canker.
Director of WAEC, Reverend Samuel Ollenu, who disclosed the initiative by his outfit, added that in subsequent years, the CCTV cameras will be used in all West African Senior School and Basic Education Certificate Examinations (WASSCE/BECE) centres across the country.

Meanwhile, the council introduced an Item Differentia profile (IDP) software in 2015, as part of the council’s continuous efforts to curb the incidence of examination malpractices.
The software analyses responses of candidates writing objective test at a centre for collusion.

Speaking at an educational seminar for members of the media on its procedures, strategies to curb examination malpractices and its related issues, he lamented the act has poor predictive validity of examination results as well poor ethical and moral values.
Other interventions to eliminate the canker, he enumerated, are sensitisation programmes in schools and examination centres, publication of names and schools of offenders in national newspapers, cancellation of entire results, as well as the use of other detectors.

He bemoaned that examination malpractice results in the admission of unqualified students into our universities, which implies that those who are actually qualified are sometimes indirectly denied admissions.

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