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Direct linkPrince Agwu; Charles T. Orjiakor; Aloysius Odii; Chinyere Onalu; Chidi Nzeadibe; Pallavi Roy; Obinna Onwujekwe; Uzoma Okoye – Oxford Review of Education, 2024
The importance placed on passing Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) in Nigeria has led to the emergence of 'Miracle Examination Centres' (MECs). MECs are schools where candidates get undeserving excellent SSCE results through institutionally enabled malpractice. This undermines the Nigerian education sector and its leadership.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Exit Examinations, Ethics, Certification
The Inevitable Corruption of Indicators and Educators through High-Stakes Testing. Executive Summary
Download full textNichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
Nichols, Sharon L.; Berliner, David C. – Education Policy Research Unit, 2005
This research provides lengthy proof of a principle of social science known as Campbell's law: "The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor." Applying…
Descriptors: Cheating, Dropouts, High Stakes Tests, Social Indicators
