The West African Examinations Council (WAEC)
says it is set to introduce a device that will
henceforth check collusion during its
examinations across the country.
The council’s Head, Media and Information, Mr
Damianus Ojijeogu said this in an interview
with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on
Wednesday in Lagos.
He said that during the 2014/2015
examination, it was discovered that collusion
was gradually replacing other previous forms
of malpractices recorded by the council,
including impersonation.
“We are planning to introduce software called
Item Differential Programme. This device is
one that would assist in detecting collusion in
any given examination.
“The introduction of the device is based on the
high level of collusion that we discovered
during the 2014/2015 examination.
“The device will be able to detect if candidates
have jointly answered a particular multiple
choice question, which we refer to as “item’’.
“For instance, if out of 100 candidates, 80 per
cent of them go for a particular item which
might be wrong as their answer, the device
will immediately flag such item and aggregate
the candidates,” he explained.
Ojijeogu noted that the device, if approved by
council, might be introduced at its 2016
November/December diet of the West Africa
Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)
for private candidates.
He, however, said if it was unable to introduce
it during the examination in November, it
would do that during the 2017 May/June diet
of the WASSCE.
According to him, the council is already doing
trial run and fine tuning the device.
He said that the device was first used by the
Kenyan Examinations Council, followed by that
of Ghana. (NAN).

I hope it wont be like that of jamb

And how will they do that? People are using pencil to shade paper and you think a device will be able to detect if they are cheating or not. Is it that you will deduct marks when someone gets correct answers in a row? So intelligent students will then suffer for this? Rubbish.
There is no way to detect anything. People just lying everywhere.
That is how JAMB said they have Item Response Theory only to begin to fail students anyhow for answering too many questions correctly. Mtcheew.