AN INVESTIGATION OF EXAMINATION MALPRACTICE AMONG SCIENCE SECONDARY SCHOOLS (A CASE STUDY OF GWALE LOCAL GOVERNMENT)

The research work was conducted to investigate examination malpractices among science secondary school students in Gwale local government area of Kano-state. A descriptive surveydesign was adopted. The instrument of data collection was questionnaire entitled: "TeachersQuestionnaire on Investigation of Examination Malpractice (TQIEM)".The population of thestudy consist of 100 teachers in science secondary schools in Gwale local government area.A sample of 80 teachers was selected using the research advisors (2006) table of sample size.Three experts form Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano validated the instrument. The reliability of the instrument was discovered to be 0.84 using test-retest method. Three research objectiveswere raised and three questions were answered. The data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The study findings real that; rising cost of education, failure to cover syllabus and desire to pass at all cost, are among the factors responsiblefor examination malpractice,inadequate teaching and learning materials and motivation from parents and teachers were the causes of examination malpractice discovered. Therefore the study recommends that;government should implement free education at all levels, qualified teachers should be employed, retrained and encourage to cover syllabus, finally ministry of education should make teaching materials available to schools at the minimum cost.