WAEC Nigeria sees innovation adoption as strategic to improve educational assessment

West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Nigeria says the adoption of new innovation is a strategic step examining and assessment bodies must deploy to tackle issues of evaluating skills in Africa.

WAEC observes that innovation through technology is an ongoing measure adopted across West Africa to achieve efficiency in conducting their various examinations.

Speaking at a media parley in Lagos Thursday to announce the 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA) to be hosted by Nigeria, Olu Adenipekun, head of Nigeria National office, WAEC, notes the conference will provide a platform to promote cooperation among examining and assessment bodies in Africa, adding that it will also encourage relevant examining and assessment activities among members.

According to Adenipekun, the five-day conference scheduled for August 5 – 9, in Abuja, will feature experience and knowledge sharing sessions by experts on issues of evaluation and assessment.

Adenipekun says over 400 delegates from around the world

are expected to attend the event, as sponsor international participation in the field of educational testing and assessment within the individual members countries among other objectives, will be handled at conference.

He further discloses that annual conference with the theme ‘Innovation in educational assessment will be declared opened and closed by the Minister of Education of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Is-hap Oloyede, Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will deliver keynote address.

“There will be presentations of academic papers from keynote speakers; paper presentation in plenary sessions; four parallel sessions and breakout sessions. Cocktails, Gala and Cultural Nights are a few number of events that have been planned for the evenings during the Conference to help delegates unwind and relax,” Adenipekun states.

Some of the topics to be discussed at the conference include: Computer and information literacy in a digital age; Post-test estimates of item parameter of mathematics multiple choice test of public examination in Nigeria and basic requisites in running statistical analyses.