Assessment of Senior Secondary School Students’ Preparedness and Challenges for Mathematics E-Examination in Ebonyi State

The study assessed Senior Secondary School Students’ Preparedness and Challenges for Mathematics E-examination Ebonyi State. Three (3) research questions and two (2) null hypotheses guided the study. The population of the study was the entire SS III Students (2025 set) from all the two hundred and thirty-three (233) public secondary schools in Ebonyi state, comprising twelve thousand one hundred and sixty-three (12,163) students. A total of three hundred and fifty-two (352) students, comprising one hundred and eighty-one (181) males and one hundred and seventy-one (171) females were used as sample for this study. The instruments for data collection were the Ebonyi State unified Mock Examination (EB-UME) on mathematics. The EB-UME and a questionnaire on the challenges facing students’ preparedness for mathematics e-examination. The internal consistency of the questionnaire was ensured using Cronbach Alpha estimate and it yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.83. The data collected were analyzed using mean, and standard deviation for the research questions and t-test for the hypotheses at an alpha level of 0.05. The findings of the study showed that there was no significant difference in the mean preparedness of male and female students for mathematics E-examination. Whereas significant difference existed between the mean preparedness of urban and rural students. Equally, some of the challenges constraining students in public secondary schools in Ebonyi State from preparing well for e-examination include, inadequate number of computers, lack or no power supply, among others. It was recommended among others that local, state and federal government should encourage and sponsor in-service training workshops and seminars for teachers so as to assist them update their knowledge, skills, attitude and new ideas on newly developed software on E-examination.