Digital Facilities for Managing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Rivers State

This study investigated digital facilities for managing West African Senior School Certificate examination in Rivers State. Four research questions and four hypotheses guided the study. A descriptive research design was adopted. The population of the study was 636. The sample size for the study was 300 comprising 140 Principals and 160 Vice Principals in the 318 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Proportionate Stratified sampling Technique was used to select the sample. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: “Digital Facilities for Managing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) Questionnaire (DFMWSSCEQ). The instrument was validated by the four experts two from the Department of Educational Management, and others from the department of Guidance and Counselling of Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. The reliability of the instrument was done using test-retest method which gave a reliability index of 0.78. Mean and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions, while independent t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings among others revealed that to a low extent Principals and vice principals are not using digital facilities such as CCTV, biometric identification and metal detector for managing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Rivers state. It was concluded that digital facilities such as CCTV, biometric identification and metal detector are not for managing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Rivers state. Based on the findings, it was recommended that examination bodies (WAEC) should procure more digital facilities in order to manage the examination in schools while school administrators, teachers, invigilators and examination officials should be taught on how to use the devices in examination centres.