Influence of Cyber-Phobia on Examination Performance of JAMB Candidates in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of cyber-phobia on examination performance of JAMB candidates in Obio/Akpor L.G.A of Rivers State. In view of actualizing the above purpose, four research questions were designed to guide the study. The study was a descriptive survey with a population comprising the entire 2018 JAMB candidates of Obio/Akpor L.G.A. at University of Port Harcourt (Uniport), Rivers State, and Rivers State University of Port Harcourt. All were 2000 in number. On -10% basis, 200 JAMB candidates were randomly drawn as a sample from the above chosen universities through a simple random sampling technique. The instrument for data collection was Influence of Cyber-phobia on Examination Performance of JAMB Candidates Assessment Questionnaire (ICEPJCAQ). The validity was subjected to expert in measurement and evaluation while the coefficient value of reliability yielded an index of 0.82. Mean and standard deviation were used as statistical tools of analysis to provide answers to the three research questions. The study found fear due to time restraint of CBT, fear due to paperless nature of CBT, fear due to the instant award of scores to candidates and fear due to lack of moment to cheat, which are all categories of cyber-phobia   influence on examination performance of JAMB, candidates negatively. Therefore the study recommended among others that JAMB should use other modes such as PPT and DBT in conducting further examination so as to eliminate the incident of poor performance, mostly among computer unfriendly and illiterate candidates.

Keywords: Cyber-phobia examination, JAMB, Candidates and Performance