Lecturers cautioned against marking exams under pressure

A medical doctor, Mohammed Ibrahim Baji, has called on lecturers to avoid marking examination scripts under duress. He made the call in a one-day health talk and lecture on script marking and lecture delivery organized by the Lecture Series Committee, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic Bida.  He said several studies have been […]

A medical doctor, Mohammed Ibrahim Baji, has called on lecturers to avoid marking examination scripts under duress.
He made the call in a one-day health talk and lecture on script marking and lecture delivery organized by the Lecture Series Committee, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), Federal Polytechnic Bida.
 He said several studies have been conducted and implemented in various institutions of learning in Nigeria and abroad, with a view to identifying the most viable and effective classroom lecture delivery strategies, yet no single technique has been unanimously adopted or even accepted within the academia.
He advised lecturers “to inculcate the use of good marking scheme, avoid marking students’ scripts under pressure, check the addition of marks and transfer same to the front page of the student’s script; formulate a clear policy on how to handle issues such as poor English and handwriting and additional facts and score all responses fairly before taking the result for approval as this will create an aura for assessing educational goals.”
 Similarly, the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) State Coordinator, Niger State, Hajiya Mairo Idris, enjoined management and academic staff of the institution to always observe adequate rest after daily activities to prevent stress.
She said the inability to reduce stress leads to high blood pressure.
Hajiya Mairo said students must get the right amount of rest and sleep after school hours to be able to reduce stress.
She noted that corruption and short supply of qualified medical and nursing personnel were among the major problems facing the health sector in the country. Other problems, she said, were inadequate and outdated medical equipment, poor funding, inability of patients to pay for healthcare service, inequality in healthcare facilities distribution between rural and urban areas and policy inconsistency.
She said the federal government will ensure that all Nigerians ‘suffer less’ to receive medical care at a cheap and affordable rate.”
She called on the public to attend regular medical check-ups to be able to detect medical problems early.
Stephen, HND2 Mass Communication, Federal Polytechnic, Bida