Opinions of Undergraduates on the Use of Electronic Examination in a Nigerian University

Abstract

The study investigated opinions of university undergraduates on the use of electronic examination (e-exams). Participants were 600 undergraduates selected from six faculties in Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti using stratified random sampling technique. The strata recognised gender (Male=300, Female=300) and faculties (Arts=100, Education=100, Engineering=100, Management Sciences=100, Science=100, Social Sciences=100). Data were collected using a 25-item opinionnaire, each item rated on a four-point scale: Strongly Agree=4, Agree=3, Disagree=2 and Strongly Disagree=1, with a reliability coefficient=0.79 using Cronbach-? and analysed using means, standard deviations, t-test and one-way ANOVA, tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results showed that the undergraduates favoured the use of e-exams in the university. However, there existed significant variation in opinions of males and females in favour of females while variation in opinions of undergraduates across faculties was insignificant. It was recommended that the university should embrace e-exams and extend same to degree programmes for quality examinations and valid examination results, provide adequate human and material resources for effective operations of e-exams, and prepare the undergraduates electronically to enable them gain proficiency in computer and operation of e-exams for desirable success of the system.

DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2015.v6n2s1p75