West African Exa m i n a t i o n s Council, WAEC, has adopted the electronic marking of theoretical questions of its West African Senior Secondary School Examinations.
Head of Nigeria’s Office of the organisation, Mr. Olu Adenipekun disclosed this Tuesday in Lagos while addressing leadership of Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria, EWAN, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Yaba headquarters of the council.
He said the new marking system which entirely deviated from the traditional manual method would begin with its ongoing November-December SSCE and sustained subsequently also in its May/June diet.
He explained that because of the development, candidates no longer take their theory questions home after exams, as answer booklets are now combined with the question papers and given to each of the candidates together.
He said the new practice, which was in tandem with the best global practices would greatly guide students from writing irrelevances when answering questions.
He explained that the deployment of Information Communication Technology, ICT, in the conduct of the council’s exams is aimed not only at ensuring near perfection, but to also lead in the area of examination integrity globally.
While revealing that the new marking method would not take away the job from the teachers who are usually engaged by the organisation in the traditional marking method, Adenipekun said they would still be engaged to handle the electronic-marking project.
He said WAEC would not remain static but would from time to time evolve new systems and policies to go along with global best practices.
Adenipekun, who commended EWAN for its foresight and contributions to national growth and development through quality reports, promised that WAEC template of assessing candidates would remain sacrosanct and would not for any reason lower the standard of its examination.
Head of Nigeria’s Office of the organisation, Mr. Olu Adenipekun disclosed this Tuesday in Lagos while addressing leadership of Education Writers’ Association of Nigeria, EWAN, who paid him a courtesy visit at the Yaba headquarters of the council.
He said the new marking system which entirely deviated from the traditional manual method would begin with its ongoing November-December SSCE and sustained subsequently also in its May/June diet.
He explained that because of the development, candidates no longer take their theory questions home after exams, as answer booklets are now combined with the question papers and given to each of the candidates together.
He said the new practice, which was in tandem with the best global practices would greatly guide students from writing irrelevances when answering questions.
He explained that the deployment of Information Communication Technology, ICT, in the conduct of the council’s exams is aimed not only at ensuring near perfection, but to also lead in the area of examination integrity globally.
While revealing that the new marking method would not take away the job from the teachers who are usually engaged by the organisation in the traditional marking method, Adenipekun said they would still be engaged to handle the electronic-marking project.
He said WAEC would not remain static but would from time to time evolve new systems and policies to go along with global best practices.
Adenipekun, who commended EWAN for its foresight and contributions to national growth and development through quality reports, promised that WAEC template of assessing candidates would remain sacrosanct and would not for any reason lower the standard of its examination.
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