Anja Sisarica (Strategic Relations Manager, Inspera)
In Scandinavia digital exams have been the norm for almost a decade. In response to Covid-19 and the logistical constraints it has imposed on the educational institutions, we see the rest of the world increasingly starting to perceive e-assessment as a must, rather than a nice-to-have, resulting in accelerating innovation cycles.
How can we handle high-stakes assessment during the Covid-19 emergency, when remote home exams are becoming a “new norm” in e-assessment? To maintain the quality of e-assessment at home, Inspera has reflected on ways to ensure academic honesty (Carrol, 2013):
- Educating students and boosting academic integrity
- Redesigning exams
a. Open-book exams with time constraints
b. Closed-book exams with unique test papers per student and time constraints
- Increased security layers for academic dishonesty to detect and deter offenders
As a technology provider, we have decided to give our partners the option to add a remote proctoring solution on top of our existing cloud-based end-to-end eAssessment platform. In this session, I will briefly present Inspera Remote Exam, the solution we have developed over the last six months and successfully beta-tested with partner institutions in June 2020. We would also discuss the main pillars of our design thinking that emerged from requirements engineering: a) Equality; b) Respecting Privacy; c) Effectiveness.
I also argue for maintaining an online exam integrity strategy that our other partners, who wanted to avoid remote proctoring, have been adopting, i.e. assessment redesign. While remote proctoring is a reliable solution, their conclusion was that well-designed e-assessment is the best way to ensure examination integrity.
Our partners’ key finding has been that we can move beyond the simple migration of conventional assessment into a digital format and that institutions have the opportunity to improve the learning experience for students through rethinking how assessment can and should be implemented going forward.
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