WAEC Set To Re-Introduce E-marking
The West African
Examinations Council International Office (WIO) in Lagos, has said that plans
are underway to re-introduce electronic marking for its tests.
The Head of the
Office, Mr Adelowo Maliki, made this known in an interview with the News Agency
of Nigeria on Monday in Lagos.
According to him,
the marking before now was done with some foreign partners based in the United
Kingdom.
“We started this
electronic marking in 2014 through to 2015, only for us to suspend it in 2016,
due to high costs as regards the high exchange rate.
“But now, we are
set to bring it back as we have gotten all necessary approvals from the
council’s committee meetings and the council itself.
“This led to our
trying to develop our own in-house and by the grace of God, the ongoing West
African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates
would be marked electronically.
“However, we will
not be marking all the subjects through this mode, just some selected ones.
“So as soon as this
examination is concluded, we will kick start marking electronically.’’
“Here, you can be
sure that if two people mark the same paper, they will arrive at the same
scoring.
“So it will
increase test reliability, which means that even for different people, there
will be little or no deviation from what they awarded because this one is
electronically done and if you are not doing it according to laid down rules,
it shuts you off automatically on its own.
“At that point, you
realise you are not doing the right thing and so if every paper can be done
electronically, it is going to be the best,’’ Maliki explained.
He added that the
marking mode was actually the best but costly.
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