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    Examination phobia as predictor of examination malpractice among higher institution students in Kwara State, Nigeria.
    (Journal of Nigerian Society for Educational psychologists,, 2017) Bibire, A.H. Adewuni, D.A., Fidelia, N.A., Abubakar, M.S. & Saadu, K.Y
    This study examined examination phobia as predictor of examination malpractices among higher institution students in Kwara State. The study adopted correlational research design Stratified random sampling technique was tesed to select six tertiary institutions in Kwara State Three hundred (300) students were randomly selected across the chosen institutions. T instruments were used to elicit information from the respondents (1) an adapted questionnaire on examination phobia developed by Afolayan et al (2013) and (2) an adapted questionnaire on examination malpractices developed by Stephen et, al (2014). The two instruments were subjected to pilot testing and found to have reliability coefficient of 0.65 and 0.68 respectively. In the same vein, they were also subjected to face and content validity. In doing this copies of the instruments were given to the experts in education. Results of this shuty revealed that cramination phobia significantly predicted examination malpractices of tertiary institutions students in Kwara State. Nigeria (Beta coefficient of 0.263 and Sig. -0.01) at P<0.05. It was also revealed that examination phobia significantly predicted examination malpractices of students in universities in Kwara State (Beta coefficient of 0.329 and Sig. -0.002) at P<0.05, A was as well revealed examination phobia significantly predicted examination malpractices of students in polytechnics in Kwara State (Beta coefficient of -0.220 and Sig. -0.028) at P<0.05 and it was revealed examination phobia significantly predicted examination malpractices of students in colleges of education in Kwara State (Beta coefficient of -0.240 and Sig. -0.002 at P<0.05. In the light the results of this study, it is recommended that students in tertiary inatinitions in Kwara state irrespective of the institution type (university, polytechnic and college of education) should develop self and academic confidence that will enable them write their examinations without fear, tension and phobia which may result to examination malpractices