GROUP 5 DPROJ 302 - Proposal
GROUP 5 DPROJ 302 - Proposal
GROUP 5 DPROJ 302 - Proposal
Submitted by:
FODAY S. KAMARA: ID: 2021279.
YEAR 2022
JANUARY 2022
TABLE OF CONTENT
1. Background..............................................................................................2
2. Problem Statement...................................................................................3
3. Aim and Objectives...................................................................................4
4. Scope and Constraint................................................................................5
4.2 Lack of enough funds:............................................................................5
4.3 Scope:...................................................................................................5
5. Feasibility Study.......................................................................................6
5.1 Financial Feasibility................................................................................6
5.2 Technical Feasibility...............................................................................6
5.3 Resource and Time Feasibility.................................................................6
5.4 Risk Feasibility.......................................................................................6
5.5 Social/ Legal Feasibility...........................................................................7
6. Justification..............................................................................................8
7. Literature Review.....................................................................................9
8. Technology Used....................................................................................10
8.1 Electronic Detectors.............................................................................10
8.2 Phones Signal Jammers........................................................................10
8.3 Faraday Cage.......................................................................................10
8.4 Airport Style Security Scanner...............................................................11
9. Organization of the Study........................................................................12
9.1 Research Design..................................................................................12
9.2 Population of the Study........................................................................12
9.3 Research Instruments...........................................................................12
9.4 Research Procedure..............................................................................12
9.5 Data Analysis.......................................................................................12
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1. Background
Exams are used to objectively evaluate and assess students' learning outcomes,
ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding, and potential for other
employment skill development. According to Online Schools Center Website,
examinations are used to assess candidates' levels of achievement and even
place them in specific career paths. Actions and practices that undermine
examination credibility pose a serious threat to the educational system's quality
and achievement of its selective goals. Examination leaks are an example of such
actions that jeopardize the integrity of examinations and undermine the authority
of those in charge of them. Examination leakage is not the same as examination
cheating. Examination leakage is defined in this study as the illegal filtration of
an examination question paper from its system or access to the examination
question paper by a candidate before the paper is officially opened in the
examination room. In the presence of candidates in the examination rooms,
examination leakage can occur anywhere between the setting of the examination
paper and the opening of the examination question papers. Leakage can occur
during the setting, moderation, Production point, dispatching of question papers,
at storage stations, and from storage stations to examination centres in Sierra
Leone (Politico SL, Feb 2016). Exam malpractice is defined as a deliberate act of
wrongdoing that is contrary to official examination rules and is intended to give a
candidate an unfair advantage or disadvantage (The World Bank Group. 2001).
Examination malpractice is defined by the WAEC (2004) as "any irregular
behaviour exhibited by a candidate or anyone charged with the conduct of
examination in and outside the examination hall, before, during, or after such
examination. In general, examination malpractice is defined as irregular
behaviour by candidates or agents charged with conducting examinations within
or outside the examination hall prior to the start of the test or examination, or
during or after the test or examination, with the intent of gaining an unfair
advantage in such test or examination.
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2. Problem Statement
Exams are commonly used to assess people's abilities in specific areas or
disciplines. They play an important role in both our educational system and the
society in which we live. Exam leakage is a type of malpractice, which is an
illegal practise that undermines the purpose of exams. This is due to a variety of
factors, including the way examinations are conducted, which may contain some
loopholes that may entice candidates and other stakeholders to violate
examination rules. Some candidates may be relatively academically weak and
wish to study at the same pace as those who are relatively academically strong.
Other candidates are aware that they are weak, but due to laziness, they will not
want to learn difficult material in order to pass, preferring instead to cheat. Some
school stakeholders may be competing with their neighbours in terms of
performance. Despite the government's and assessment bodies' efforts to curb
the vice, people appeared unconcerned. If the vice is not stopped, the following
outcomes are possible: no reliable results, loss of credibility in the assessment
body, and the entire education system losing meaning. As a result, there is a
need to identify the prevalent malpractices (leakages) and their dynamics, as
well as to take appropriate measures using ICT to mitigate this threat. As a
result, the study seeks to describe and propose a distributed question
generator system as part of the measures for mitigating examination
leakages at the Examination Body.
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3. Aim and Objectives
Hence, the general objective or main objective of this study is to examine the
influence of information systems and electronic media on curbing the menace of
examination malpractice among students in Sierra Leone who take national and
external examinations such as the NPSE, BECE and WASSCE. The specific
objectives are:
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4. Scope and Constraint
The scope is aimed to be large enough to include all project deliverables, but
small enough to be attainable. Therefore, the requirements of the system will be
limited to identifying ways to create a distributed system across examination
centres through which a final, unique examination paper can be generated and
shared among these centres close to the time of start of examinations.
The study will be conducted to examine the influence of information systems and
electronic media and its subsequent use in curbing the menace of examination
malpractice among students in Sierra Leone. Thus, the study will use WAEC as a
case study.
It is anticipated that the time for the study may not be enough to carry
out intensive and extensive study since some of the information is not
easily and quickly available.
4.3 Scope:
The scope of the project for covers mainly the development of a system
that automatically generates questions from a question bank but does not
consider the broader ecological and environmental aspect of how the
system may be integrated at a management level within WAEC for the
national and regional level.
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5. Feasibility Study
A feasibility study will be carried out to see how viable the system is going to be
for implementation. Our feasibility study will be divided into the following
categories:
Financial Feasibility
Technical Feasibility
Resource and Time Feasibility
Risk Feasibility
Social/Legal Feasibility
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6. Justification
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7. Literature Review
Academic malpractices are on the increase across the world, and it is a threat to
the society and public trust in reliability and credibility [1]. The use of
examinations to promote learners from one level of education to the next level
and for certification of candidates has brought about competition among learners
leading to examination malpractices [2]. This is because candidates at all levels
of education desire to pass examinations to enable them transit from one level of
education into the next level [2]. [3] defined examination malpractice as any act
carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose
knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim
of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. Examination malpractice is
any deliberate act of wrong doing, contrary to the rules of examinations
designed to give a candidate an undue advantage [4]. For [5] examination
malpractice is any improper action carried out before, during and after the
examination with the intention of cheating or having an advantage. Examination
malpractice as an illegal act committed by a single student or in collaboration
with others like fellow students, parents, teachers, supervisors, invigilators,
computer operators or secretarial staff and anybody or group of people before,
during, or after examination in order to obtain undeserved marks or grade [6].
The incidences of examination malpractice are common everywhere and every
examination season witnesses the emergence of new ingenious way of cheating
[7]. The modern trend of examination malpractices involves the use of miniature
technologies such as specialized wrist watch, eye glass and mobile phones
etcetera. However, despite the negative application of technology by
perpetrators of examination malpractice, the use of technology remains one of
the best ways to tackle the menace of cheating in examinations.
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8. Technology Used
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are flittered out while allowing certain transmission proceeds as
normal. The main function of the device is to prevent signal from
getting through by causing “shadows” or radio wave blind spots.
Programming Language:
XAMPP v3.3.0
PHP
MySQL Database
HTML
CSS
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JavaScript
jQuery
Bootstrap v5
AdminLTE
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9. Organization of the Study
This section entails the methods to be used to collect the data necessary to
answer the research. It is divided into;
9.1 Research Design
The study will use an investigative research design. This enhances
the researchers to obtain a better understanding of the impact of
examination malpractice on academic performance.
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respondents and to locate omissions. Information obtained from
the research study is presented and analysed using tables.
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