An Assessment of Examiners and Students’ Attitudes in Join Admission and Matriculation Board towards Computer-Based Tests in Kaduna State, Nigeria

As the world in advancing in technological assessment so also the process of assessing learners in cognitive domain takes a new assessment format with respect to science and technology known as Computer- Base Test (CBT). On these bases, the study focused on an assessment of examiners and students’ attitudes in Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) towards Computer-Based Tests (CBT) in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Two research questions and its corresponding hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted an exploratory cross-sectional survey research design and 1,400 examiners and students were used as a sample size drawn from the total population of 1.90001,436 examiners and students who registered and sat for JAMB/UTME 2020/2021 in Kaduna State using a multi-stage stratified random sampling technique. The researchers developed an instrument for data collection entitled ‘‘Examiners and Students Attitude Scale toward Computer-Base Test” (ESASCBT) contained 16 structured items used for data collection. ESASCBT was anchored on the 4-point scale was validated which yielded 0.85 validity index and 0.79 reliability index. Descriptive statistics was used to answered research questions while Chi-square-X2) was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05level of significance using SPSS version 23 on the arrayed of cross-tabulation and the findings revealed that poor internet network, failure of electricity, unfavourable examination halls among others. Further results revealed that there was a significant different in attitude of examiners and students in JAMB toward CBT and there was no significant different in the attitude of male and female students in JAMB toward CBT in Kaduna state. It was recommended that appropriate measures should be taken by concerned stakeholders to find ou tmeans of eliminating and minimizes the challenges confronting examiners and students in subsequent CBTs.