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ERIC Number: EJ1372401
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jan
Pages: 11
Abstractor: As Provided
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EISSN: EISSN-1532-0545
Who's Cheating? Mining Patterns of Collusion from Text and Events in Online Exams
Cleophas, Catherine; Hönnige, Christoph; Meisel, Frank; Meyer, Philipp
INFORMS Transactions on Education, v23 n2 p84-94 Jan 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic motivated a shift to virtual teaching, exams have increasingly moved online too. Detecting cheating through collusion is not easy when tech-savvy students take online exams at home and on their own devices. Such online at-home exams may tempt students to collude and share materials and answers. However, online exams' digital output also enables computer-aided detection of collusion patterns. This paper presents two simple data-driven techniques to analyze exam event logs and essay-form answers. Based on examples from exams in social sciences, we show that such analyses can reveal patterns of student collusion. We suggest using these patterns to quantify the degree of collusion. Finally, we summarize a set of lessons learned about designing and analyzing online exams.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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