WAEC set to digitalise processes

Othenmu, who stated this in Accra, Ghana, shortly after a presentation by JAMB and CITO delegations, said the only way value can be added to what WAEC is doing is to digitalise its processes.  He said: “JAMB has brought light to public examinations and it is only expedient that all should follow the pathway of […]

Othenmu, who stated this in Accra, Ghana, shortly after a presentation by JAMB and CITO delegations, said the only way value can be added to what WAEC is doing is to digitalise its processes.  
He said: “JAMB has brought light to public examinations and it is only expedient that all should follow the pathway of CBT.”  
He added that the world is moving fast and that the business of writing examination can never be the way it used to be if meaningful result is to be achieved.
A statement from the JAMB office, signed by Mr. Fabian Benjamin, Head of Information Unit, quoted the Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, with his counterpart from CITO the Netherlands, Dr. Jan Wengers, saying that they were in Ghana, at the instance of WAEC Ghana, to benchmark on the process of commencing Computer Based Test by WAEC.
Prof. Ojerinde explained that the board had to look for a new way of doing things when the old order was not enhancing the required standard, stressing that, “CBT has the solution to all the challenges associated with public examinations.”
He urged WAEC to adopt the policy as that is where the world is going.
Prof Ojerinde explained that the Nigerian National Council on Education (NCE) had given the board approval to go full CBT in 2015, adding that with the experience the board had garnered with the 2013/2014 exercise, it’s obvious that it has conquered all the ills of conducting public examination.