An Investigation of the Reliability of Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) Results in Gombe Metropolis, Gombe State, Nigeria

Abstract

This paper tests the reliability of the results obtained by students who sat for National Examination council Examination (NECO). Using the result obtained by the students in the same school in WAEC. The paper finds the correlation coefficients of percentage achievement in Mathematics and English – language in WAEC and NECO. The correlation coefficient was found for two consecutive years 2012 and 2013. It was observed that the correlation coefficients between the two examination bodies in 2012 are o.61 in Mathematics and 0.77 in English – language. In 2013, the correlation coefficient between WAEC and NECO are 0.87 in Mathematics and 0.24 in English – language. Except for that of English – language in 2013, the other correlation coefficients are positive and close to perfect. This shows that there is a strong relationship between the achievements.

Keywords: West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), National Examination Council (NECO), Correlation Coefficient, Relationship, Percentage achievement, Candidate, Credit.