Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde said this while speaking to the press at the 2012 International Association for Educational Assessment (IAEA) scholarship training on educational measurement and evaluation in Abuja yesterday.
He said the likely reason for the recurrent failure in the system could be based on problems the examinations test items encounter.
He said it was time to concentrate on the item test response theory which deals on the test items proficiency rather than classical test theory which deals on the people involved.
Participating countries include: South Africa, Malawi, Botswana, Tanzania, Kenya, Cameroon, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Zambia, Namibia, Uganda, Swaziland and Nigeria.
On her part, Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa'i urged the examination bodies to see the training session as an opportunity to improve on the quality of public examination.
She assured them of the Federal Government's support towards the initiative, and urged UNESCO to rekindle its supports for the programme as well as other initiatives that would make African countries lead in educational measurement and assessment.
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