The Innovative Strategies For Public Senior Secondary Students Academic Performanc
[A CASE STUDY OF ILORIN WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, KWARA STATE NIGERIA.]

Dike (2005) claimed that responsibility matters in all what we do. There is increasing moral problems in the society (corruption, greed, violent crimes, and political killings) and in Nigerian schools (examination dishonesty, drug abuse and other destructive behaviors). These behaviours, call for ‘value education’ in the schools which will spread to the larger society. Some individuals and institutions with morality problems are known to have ‘aided and abetted frauds’ during the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and National Examinations Council (NECO), examinations leading to the frequent cancellations of results. The Daily Independent of May 22, 2005 reported that in the past nine years, about ‘five million’ results had been cancelled. Many students have been involved in examination dishonesty and have been rusticated.” Moral education’ or value education is essential for the success of a democratic society. “Value education” or good education consists of knowing what is good, desiring what is good and doing what is good. This should be instilled in the children right from the elementary schools. People who have good character, according to Bernestin Dike (2005),”act truthfully, loyally, kindly and fairly without being much tempted (or pulled) by the opposite forces to indulge in unproductive behaviours. Value education should be planned for, by the curriculum developers so that the teaching of respect, responsibility, and other moral values like honesty should be in the nation’s schools curricula for good character development.

Computer-Based Examinations
    The Managing Director of Electronic Testing Company (ETC), Tunde Oladipo has called on tertiary institutions, companies and all examination bodies in Nigeria to have confidence in Computer-Based Testing (CBT) as it is now being extensively used in many parts of the world for the past fifteen years, stressing that it is in Nigeria that the workability of the innovation is still under consideration. Tunde maintained that CBT is a paperless process by which examinations are designed, developed, delivered and scored by computer with the key element of Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) “The questions are authored and loaded onto the servers, these questions are then delivered to the test-taker base, a randomization algorithm; the assessment is marked by the computer and result is instantly made available. This is the beauty of the CBT as it takes off the stress of having to mark from the examiners (as is the case with paper tests). CBT is employed in diverse applications such as employment aptitude, admission selection, drivers’ license theory tests, language proficiency and technology certification assessments. Examination bodies like ACCA and City & Guild have also introduced CBT as instrument for assessment (Oladipo, 2010).
Review of Related Empirical Studies
    Examination malpractice has touched the hearts of many people who have this country at heart. These are people who are interested in enhancing qualitative education for the citizenries of Nigeria. These people wish to liberate the citizens of Nigeria since education they say, is power. They want Nigerians that take any form of examination to be awarded their deserved grades. They want people to carry certificate they can defend.