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Jan 13, 2021 · Online test proctoring grew exponentially with the onset of remote education because of the COVID-10 pandemic. That quick growth outpaced the collection of empirical data from peer reviewed journals questioning the ethics of the software.
- Academic Integrity
- Fairness—Equity and Accessibility in Ai Use
- Fairness—Bias, Discrimination, and Ai-Facilitated Determination of Cheating
- Privacy
- Respect For Autonomy
- Wider Social Implications: Liberty and Trust
Academic integrity, a vital value in academia, can be threatened by student lack of awareness, dishonesty, and misconduct. Studies show that student cheating is critically affected by institutional culture (Bretag, 2018). Forms of academic dishonesty and misconduct include impersonation and contract cheating, unauthorized use of cheat notes, and th...
Remote invigilation by means of OP technology promises accessibility benefits not only for students who study remotely but also for students who officially study on campuses but who have reasons for sitting exams from home. Institutions may save on costs of hiring exam centers and professional invigilators, which is important in the face of severe ...
OP platforms using AI and/or live proctors may increase fairness for honest students by identifying relatively more cases of cheating. Some proponents claim that digital proctoring does better on this score than traditional invigilation where the ratio of proctors to test-takers is very low (Dimeo, 2017). This claim, of course, would need to be bac...
OP technologies raise moral concerns about privacy which privacy laws, and university policies and governance, may not adequately address (Pardo & Siemens, 2014)—especially given that many jurisdictions have privacy laws that have not been amended to adjust to the data collecting capacities of new digital technologies (Australian Government, 2020)....
Autonomy might be restricted by online proctoring in several ways. For example, it may require students to avoid doing things they can often do in traditional exams, such as muttering to themselves, looking to the side, and going to the bathroom—lest they raise automated red flags about suspicious behavior. Some students may simply prefer not to be...
To conclude our investigation of the ethics of OP technologies, we shall briefly discuss some of its potential wider implications. The current context is one of rapid technological change. Shannon Vallor claims that “the unpredictable, complex, and destabilizing effects of emerging technologies on a global scale make the shape of the human future i...
- Simon Coghlan, Tim Miller, Jeannie Paterson
- 2021
Aug 27, 2021 · Student leaders call for transparency. In the spring of 2020, students at the University of Alberta in Canada raised concerns about online proctoring disproportionately flagging students who are Black, Indigenous, or People of Color (BIPOC) and causing test anxiety.
Aug 12, 2022 · What’s wrong with proctoring. Proctoring raises three issues of concern: privacy, racism and ableism. Privacy: Those selling the software insist that students give consent to its use. But...
- Sioux Mckenna
Apr 29, 2020 · As schools and exams go remote, instructors are turning to remote proctoring services to catch cheaters. But students say the process is creepy, invasive, and rife with security risks.
- Monica Chin
Jul 23, 2021 · The evidence is clear: remote proctoring causes more harm than it prevents. We assume that students are going to cheat, but we rarely consider any motivation for that cheating outside that a student is lazy, bad, or wrong.
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Apr 29, 2021 · In this blog post, we’ll take a look at the pros and cons of using remote proctoring technologies, and we’ll briefly discuss some alternative strategies for making sure students’ work is their own. Pros: Remote proctoring keeps students from cheating
