N-types Electronic Examination System An Effective Approach for Combating Examination Malpractice

Abstract

Examination malpractice is a serious problem waging war against the nation’s educational system. It appears all the efforts of the government to arrest this ugly problem, are yet to yield positive results. This paper aims to provide a solution to examination malpractice in our educational system. An N-Type Electronic Examination System (NEES) was designed to correct this problem.   The system is made up of three components: the configuration phase, examination phase and the database. The system was able to generate different variants of question sets for a particular subject. Visual Basic was used to implement the design because of its interactiveness and high ability to support database. To the best knowledge of the authors, this method of conducting examination is the first electronic examination system in Nigeria supporting different variants of question sets. Testing the new NEES design with data, the result shows a system that can administer examination effectively.