Virtual Examination Supervision System for Nigerian Universities

Abstract

Abstract-Examination malpractice is a dishonest conduct by a candidate prior to examination and through the examination to attain success effortlessly. Examination malpractice is a plague that heralds severe menace for the nation and has constantly remained a bother in the Nigerian educational system. Supervising examination has been manual since the inception of examinations in Delta State University. Likewise, most of the State Universities and Federal Universities in Nigeria utilize manual supervision of examination though visit by examination supervisors. Thus, this research paper presents a virtual examination supervision system (VESS) that checks candidates who are writing examination. VESS is an information technology approach towards curbing the problem of cheating in examination hall, using computer vision motion detection technique on real-time IP-camera video stream from examination. The implementation and practical experiment of VESS was carried out in Delta State University and result analysis indicated shift in position by examinees during examination at every milliseconds, which is difficult for human eye to monitor accurately and other cases such as copying and impersonation. These further proved that VESS is a solution to mitigating examination malpractice of all kinds and protection of the invigilators. Furthermore, the stored result in VESS can be used as evidence to punish the culprit.

Video surveillance in examination monitoring

“…Gowsikhaa et al in 2012 noted that manual monitoring by the operator through CCTV camera is affected by operators fatigue and distractions therefore, proposed automated system to detect suspicious activities during an examination because 19 . Another related study by Zabłocki et alin 2014 stated that the “use of the Video Content Analysis algorithms is indisputably a much more effective solution than watching images from the cameras by security employees.” 20 Maureen in 2016 proposed a virtual examination supervision system (VESS) that checks candidates who are writing examination 21 . Amanze et al in 2016 stated that deploying surveillance camera in environments such as academic institutions can be a useful tool for maintaining social control, prevention and investigation of crime, monitoring and recognizing threats as well as deterring intending candidates from examination malpractice activities 16 .…”

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