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Students' perceived causes and effects of examination malpratices: implications for counselling strategies

Examination malpractice has become the most serious problem threatening the entire fabric of our educational system. The problem is so alarming that all the stakeholders in the educational system have expressed serious concern about it and the need to find solution to it. Thus, this study attempted to investigate the perception of students about the causes and effect of examination malpractices. All public secondary schools and two private secondary schools participated in the study. In all 1500 students were sampled for the study. A self- constructed interview guide was used to collect data o…