WAEC Rules Out Adoption Of Cbt For Examinations

WAEC Rules Out Adoption Of Cbt For Examinations

The West African Examination Council says it is not considering adopting a Computer-Based Test mode for its examinations.Its Head, National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu, made the clarification at an interactive forum with education correspondents in Abuja.

Eguridu said it would amount to ‘intellectual dishonesty’ for him to say that the council would introduce CBT in the next five years or in the near future.

According to him, the purpose of education is to prepare people for life, not to pass examinations; hence the need to examine different domains which CBT cannot accommodate.

He said the examinations conducted by the council took into cognizance the three domains that measured ability to recall, apply and practicalise.

Eguridu said that in psychomotor domain, candidates did practical tests in agricultural science in the farm and the examiner supervised their actual agricultural practice.

He said that those doing woodwork were made to carry out physical designs of whatever woodwork assignment they were going to do and evaluated on the outcome of their work.

The WAEC official said that even Netherlands where people went to learn CBT had yet to apply CBT in all its examinations.