Abstract
The study examined the construction, validation and standardization of students’ attitude toward examination malpractice scale with the main purpose to construct, validate and standardize students’ attitude toward examination malpractice questionnaire. The research design adopted for this study is the scale development and validation design. The population of the study consisted of all SS3 students in Public and Private secondary schools who enrolled for 2023/24 WAEC and NECO Examination, in Benin Metropolis. The sample size for the study consisted of two thousand four hundred (2400) SSS III students from twenty (20) public and 20 private secondary schools in Benin Metropolis. The sampling techniques adopted for selecting the sample for the study was Multi-stage Disproportionate Stratified Random Sampling. The instrument used for data collection was the Students’ Attitude toward Examination Malpractice Questionnaire (SATEMQ). The findings of the reliability and the validity of an instrument were used to determine item analysis. Cronbach’s alpha coefficient was used to determine internal consistency reliability. The findings revealed that the students’ attitude towards examination malpractice questionnaire demonstrated satisfactory validity and reliability indices. It was therefore recommended that the instrument be adopted by researchers and educational practitioners for assessing students’ attitudes toward examination malpractice in secondary school contexts in Nigeria.’
Keywords: Attitude, Construction, Examination, Malpractice, Standardization, Validation