Interesting survey which titled as “Turning a Blind Eye” with topic of 2012 national high school exam situation survey Phnom Penh, Cambodia; made recently and conducted by ART and YES team in close collaboration with CCIM in August 2012.

Overview

General information 2012, EMIS - MoEYS:

• Total schools: 11,046
• Total classrooms: 81,601
• Total students: 3,123,082 (1,491,344 females)
• Total staffs: 103,780 (43,624 females) / Teachers = 86,404 (39,299 females)

Objectives

Main aim of this survey is to explore the perception of 12 grade students on the pre, during and post 2012 Bac-II exam in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The specific objectives of the survey are to:

• Understand the level of student’s confidence on their capacity before the exam and their preparation
• Understanding the real situation during the two and a half days exam especially the level of cheating and bribery
• Explore the perception of students of what they will do after the exam

Methodologies

• 10 randomly selected Centers of 254 centers and all of 10 are in Phnom Penh. 114,414 candidates in 4,662 rooms.
• A total of 157 candidates include 71 females from 10 exam centers were participated in the survey (individual interview).
• Over 50 stakeholders including proctor, monks, students and student’s relative in Phnom Penh were participated as key informants.

Some Extracted Result

During Exam:

• 65.8% of candidates reported they can take cheat note into exam rooms
• 76.4% of candidates reported the other candidate can take cheat note into exam rooms
• 77.7% of candidates (76.7% male and 78.9% females) reported they can record the answer from each others
• 16.3% of candidates reported that exam answers can be channeled in and out the exam rooms

Average of 120,000 Riel per candidates were spend to proctors during the two-an-a-half day exam

Please find out about the survey with following:

BacII Survey 2012 - Page 1

BacII Survey 2012 - Page 2

BacII Survey 2012 - Page 3

You can also View Survey in PDF