Abstract:
Examination malpractice is a social disease
whose menace is crippling the quality of education in
Nigeria. In this work, a new deterministic
compartmental mathematical model was proposed to
analyse the dynamics of examination malpractice among
the key players in Nigeria. The positivity and
boundedness of solutions of the model were established;
the stability analysis was conducted using the
linearization approach and the reproductive menace
was derived via the next generational matrix method.
Numerical simulation was carried out to investigate the
effect of the key parameters on the reproductive
menace. The result of the simulation showed that
examination malpractice was more rampant when the
rate of leakages of the examination questions was high.
It was, therefore, suggested that for the control of
examination malpractice to be effective in Nigeria,
efforts must be geared towards blocking the channels of
leakages of examination questions.
