Abstract

The application of electronic mode of assessment is fastly becoming an integral part of evaluation system in the educational sector worldwide. It is obvious that online mode of assessment is uprising, and a welcome alternative to paper-based assessment. The problem however lies on the rising criticisms of how valid and reliable are the scores and evaluation reports of computer-based examinations that have become almost ubiquitous. Thus prompted the paper which focused on the adoption of electronic examination system for curriculum evaluation in Nigerian university education. The study is a descriptive survey guided by two research questions and two null hypotheses. Two hundred (200) postgraduate students and four hundred (400) undergraduate students totaling 600 participants were the sample for the study. Descriptive statistics and chi-square statistics were used to answer the research questions and test the hypotheses respectively. The findings revealed that the adoption of e-examination system is an acceptable technological-driven innovation but network issue in navigating the internet, and complications in e-exam software packages are among the serious challenges affecting the electronic mode of assessment. The need for technical and procedural approaches to the emerging e-examination connected issues are supported to better reposition the adoption of e-examination in Nigeria.

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