Development of Distributive Architecture for Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) Assessment
Virginia E. Ejiofor, Macdonald Ndukaku Onyeizu, Daniel Ugoh, Anthonia N. Nwosu · 2013
Since the inception of Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) in the educational system of Nigeria, all efforts have been harnesed to better the system so that only qualified candidates emerge at the end of the exercise. But every year there have been complaints from students, parents, institutions and government on how badly the exercise was carried out. Sometimes the country is filled with bad news of ugly incidences that happened to their young children as they are exposed to the hazards of traveling down to their chosen institutions to take part in the exercise. However, after the exercise, some students are under-evaluated or over-evaluated while some are denied of their test grades. Though some institutions of higher learning in the country have converted from pencil and paper based examination to computer based, it has not been able to solve the problem as these students still have to travel far to take part in this exercise. The main idea of this study is to develop a distributive system that enables institutions of higher learning in Nigeria to conduct online examination for their candidates irrespective of their location, with stored questions in the examination bank. The system will then assemble the questions to become an examination paper. Candidates can then access the system and take part in the exam from various dispersed locations. Upon completion of the examination, the system will be able to grade and record students’ test scores. This will go a long way to drastically reduce the risk, stress, and fraud frequently experienced in the existing methods of conducting these examinations.