RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SELF-ESTEEM AND EXAMINATION MALPRACTICES AMONG BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN PUBLIC COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH-EAST NIGERIA
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The common belief on certificates and the yardstick to measure one’s qualification, has led many Nigerian students into buying educational certificates to prove their academic worth. Examination malpractice in Nigeria is as old as the country herself. The study determines the relationship between Self-Esteem and Examination Malpractices among business education students in Public Colleges of Education in South-East Nigeria. One research question and one null hypotheses tested at 0.05 significant level guided the study. The study adopted a correlational research design with a population of 684 students from the seven (7) Colleges of Education in the South-East offering business education. Two sets of instrument titled “Questionnaire on Self-Esteem (QSE),and Questionnaire on Examination Malpractice (QEM)’’ were used for data collection. The instruments were validated by two experts from Vocational Education Department and one expert from Guidance and Counselling unit both in Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus. Trial testing was used to establish the reliability of the instrument and data collected were analyzed using Cronbach Alpha which yielded a coefficient value of 0.85. Three hundred and forty (340) dully completed questionnaire were retrieved and used for data analysis. Simple regression statistical method was used to answer the research question and also test the null hypotheses. Findings revealed that self-esteem predicts examination malpractice at a moderate level of 34.0%. Based on the findings, it was recommended that: Institutions should introduce courses aimed at improving students’ self-concept. This could be done through introducing those courses within the existing Business education courses that will improve students’ self-concept or as part of general courses for example entrepreneurship related courses. Students should strive to develop self-confidence in themselves through observation, modelling of behaviour appropriate to develop such skill in order to improve their self-concept. Lecturers should assist students by engaging those students in meaningful activities which they cannot avoid so that the problem of procrastination can be overcome .Institutions should institute better security for their examinations so that the integrity of examination is not compromised. Culprits should be punished appropriately to serve as deterrence to others who might be contemplating similar act
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