Secondary School Teachers' Assessment of Examination Administration Procedures of WAEC and NECO in ENUGU North Senatorial District, Nigeria

The study was carried out to determine how secondary school teachers in Enugu North Senatorial District assess the administration procedures of WAEC and NECO examinations. Three null hypotheses were developed and evaluated at the 0.05 level of significance, and three research questions were posed and addressed in the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 5,204 secondary school teachers in 107 public secondary schools in Enugu North Senatorial District, Nigeria. The sample of the study was 1,124 teachers that were selected using multi-stage and simple random sampling techniques. The copies of questionnaire that were duly completed and returned were 1080. The researcher developed a questionnaire titled “Secondary School Teachers’ Assessment of Examination Administration Procedures of WAEC and NECO (SSTAEAPWN-Q)” was used to obtain data for the study. The research instrument was face-validated by three experts. The Cronbach Alpha technique was used to ascertain the internal consistency of the questionnaire and a reliability coefficient of 0.77 for security aspect, 0.65 for testing environment, 0.69 for test administrators’ roles, 0.69 for supervision of field officers and 0.55 for adherence to duration of examination schedule of WAEC examination respectively, while that of NECO examination yielded 0.64 for security aspect, 0.83 for testing environment, 0.52 for test administrators’ roles, 0.78 supervision of field officers and 0.65 for adherence to duration of examination schedule respectively. The study's null hypotheses were tested using the Z-test, and the research questions were addressed using percentages, means, and standard deviations. The findings of the study revealed a difference in secondary school teachers’ assessment of examination administration procedures of WAEC and NECO in Enugu North Senatorial District, Nigeria. There was no significant difference between security aspect of WAEC and NECO. Also, there was no significant difference between duration in adherence to schedule of WAEC and NECO examinations as assessed by secondary school teachers’ in Enugu State. There was a significant difference in secondary school teachers’ assessment of testing environment, supervision of field officers and test administrators’ roles of WAEC and NECO in Enugu State. The study, therefore, recommended among other things, that NECO should improve in maintaining appropriate testing environment during examination.