Validity of Nigeria's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Physics Computer- Based Tests: Threats and Opportunities :- Akanwa, U.N
Abstract
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) in Nigeria has adopted Computer-Based Testing (CBT) for her Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for prospective tertiary education
students. The study sought to find out the threats and opportunities encounter
during this examination by students taking Physics. The study adopted a
descriptive survey design. The population of the study consists of fifteen
thousand six hundred and eighty- eight ( I 5688) Senior Secondary two and three
(SS 2 & SS 3) students who took and who will take Physics in JAMB UTME in
Umuahia Education Zone of Ahia State Nigeria. The sample is made up of two
hundred and fifty (170males, 80females) SS2 & SS3 students got by a
combination of purposive and cluster sampling techniques. Four (4) research
questions and two (2) null hypotheses guided the study. The instruments for
data collection are researchers' developed structural questionnaire of the four
point liker/ type. The instrument was validated by physics experts and its
reliability obtained as 0.86 using Cronbach Alpha. The research questions were
answered with mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested with
I test. Recommendations were made based on the findings of the study. Keywords:
JAMB and UTME, Physics, Computer-Based Testing. Threats and
Opportunities.
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AKANWA, U.. "Validity of Nigeria's Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Physics Computer- Based Tests: Threats and Opportunities :- Akanwa, U.N " Repository.mouau.edu.ng (2025). Accessed 05 Jun. 2025. https://repository.mouau.edu.ng/work/view/validity-of-nigerias-unified-tertiary-matriculation-examination-physics-computer-based-tests-threats-and-opportunities-akanwa-un-7-2