INVESTIGATING INSTITUTIONAL COMPLICITY IN ACADEMIC FRAUD: A STUDY OF MOBILE PHONE CHEATING FACILITATION BY INSTITUTIONAL ACTORS AND POLICE IN SOMALIA’S NATIONAL SECONDARY EXAMINATIONS: A MULTIPLE REGRESSION ANALYSIS

Mohamed Isse Sidow, Ali Abdi Mohamed

Abstract


The systematic deterioration of academic integrity in Somalia's National Secondary Examinations is examined in this paper, with a particular emphasis on the crucial role institutional actors play in enabling mobile phone cheating. Exam setters, distributors, administrators, parents, and security staff are all involved in a complicated web of corruption, despite the traditional discourse's emphasis on student-led cheating. The study shows that institutional complicity accounts for 88% of the variance in examination misconduct using a quantitative multiple regression analysis. The results show that exam personnel are the main perpetrators of fraud (r = .773), combined with the direct cooperation of police officers and a strategic partnership between parents and principals. A regression model R2 = 0.880 confirms that these institutional factors collectively account for 88% of cheating facilitation. In order to eradicate the "pay-to-pass" atmosphere, the study concludes that a comprehensive movement toward restructuring of adminstration, resources and personnel, examination policies, and legal accountability is necessary for a sustained restoration of educational sovereignty.

Keywords


examination malpractice, institutional corruption, mobile phone cheating, academic integrity, digital surveillance

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