WAEC increases effort to introduce e-assessment for its examinations

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it is heightening endeavors to present the use of e-assessment for its examinations sooner rather than later. 

The Head of National Office (HNO), Mr Olu Adenipekun, said this at a news gathering while at the same time declaring consequences of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates (Second Series), on Wednesday in Calabar. 

As per him, the board is relentlessly understanding the requirement for the utilization of electronic appraisal for its examinations, considering the way that the world has been decreased to a worldwide town. 

"We are doing everything conceivable to assume the required jobs the extent that e-testing is worried in the nation. 

"In any case, recollect, WAEC is set up to test the accomplishment of competitors in a given prospectus. 

"So to that impact, we should understand that it is just when we have e-instructing in our optional schools this can be quickly upheld. 

"For us to have the capacity to present this much wanted e-testing, along these lines, we should have the capacity to by and large evacuate all detours. E-learning must, for example, be set up in all schools to viably outfit understudies with PC aptitudes. 

"Our examinations are not choice tests nor inclination tests but rather accomplishment tests, thus there is the requirement for us to mutually meet up to perceive how we can set up current examination corridors the nation over with all e-testing offices completely set up," Adenipekun said. 

He said that WAEC was seeing e-testing as a result of e-learning as in this manner will expect contender to all inquiries utilizing the PC. 

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Giving a breakdown of the outcomes, the HNO said a sum of 112,567 enlisted for the examination. 

He said of this figure, just 109,902 applicants sat for the examination across the nation, with 107,749 of them having their outcomes completely handled. 

As indicated by him, 2,153 others have their outcomes as yet being handled. 

Adenipekun said the advancement was because of blunders detectable to the hopefuls over the span of enrollment or while composing the examination. 

He said that such mistakes were being redressed by the board to empower influenced hopefuls get their outcomes completely prepared and discharged along these lines. 

The HNO, in any case, noticed that a few instances of negligence were similarly announced amid the direct of the examination, yet said that the number was inconsequential contrasted with what was gotten amid the lead of its eating regimen for schools. 

He credited the decrease in the dimension of examination misbehavior amid the examination to the accessibility of staff of the gathering while the examination kept going. 

Giving more subtleties of the outcomes, the HNO said that 63,037 hopefuls acquired credits or more in at least five subjects with or without English Language as well as Mathematics. 

He said that 39,557 of the competitors who sat for the examination got credits or more in a base in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. 

Adenipekun said that an aggregate of 138 applicants with changing degrees of uncommon needs enlisted and sat for the examination. 

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Of the number, he said 42 were outwardly tested, while 29 others had hearing disability. 

He said that 13 others with low vision, two who were spastic cum simple-minded and 12 other people who were physically tested additionally sat for the examination. 

"Every one of these hopefuls with unique needs were sufficiently accommodated in the organization of the examination. 

"The consequences of these applicants have been completely prepared and discharged alongside those of different competitors," Adenipekun said. 

He said that the outcome which was at first intended to be declared on Tuesday Nov. 20, was deferred because of the Eid festivity. 

The HNO, be that as it may, noticed that the outcomes were at that point available online on the chamber 's website.