The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has downplayed the ability of the recently introduced Computer-Based Test (CBT) in secondary schools examinations to achieve the desired result.
Lagos state NUT Chairman, Mr Segun Raheem, said the situation might be so because most of the students were not adequately prepared for CBT. According to him, the students were not prepared due to the non-availability of Information Communication Technology, ICT, facilities and human resources. He noted that computer science which, hitherto, was an optional subject and suddenly made a compulsory subject would leave some students unprepared for CBT.
He said: “Computer Science has just been introduced to secondary schools as a compulsory subject which is coming rather late.
“However, only a few Lagos schools have computer science teachers and some schools gave temporary appointment to computer science teachers.
“Others got the teachers through the efforts of the Parents’ Forum (PF),” he said. The unionist noted that most of the secondary schools in the state had a desktop or a laptop which they used mostly for administrative work.
He added that only few schools had an ICT laboratory that was fully equipped with internet facilities.
“With the present situation, in my own view, I doubt if the use of CBT is result-oriented for students in secondary schools in the state,” he said.
