ABSTRACT
The study investigated the "Impact of Social Studies Education in the Eradication of Examination Mal-Practice among Students in Colleges of Education in Kaduna State". The study developed three research questions from three objectives, as well as, three hypotheses, postulated for this study. The study population includes federal college of education Zaria and college of education Gidan Waya, Kaduna State. The population is made of 1,300 from college of education Zaria NCE II and III and 950 students from college of education Gidan Waya, Kaduna State. Samples of 490 respondents were selected from the two colleges of education, using Krujice and Morgan table. Relevant literature were quoted on examination mal-practice. The pilot study was conducted at federal college of education kano yielding 0.08 reliability. The descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for the analysis. Independents T-test at 0.05 level of significance, showed that there are no significant difference exist between male and female student, and no significant difference between college of Education Gidan Waya and Federal college of Education (F.C.E) Zaria. and between NCE II and NCE III on their view on the impact of social studies in the eradication of examination mal-practice in colleges of education, had no significance difference. It was recommended among other things that since examination mal-practice rank as one of the challenging of any educational institution and the society, all hands must be on deck including, students, teacher parent community. It was also suggested that student should be of high integrity and honesty.