Proposed Method To Be Adopted For Online Exam Without Proctored Environment During Covid 19

Hussein Chible¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.4 , pp.53-61, Apr-2021

Online published on Apr 30, 2021

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Abstract :
During this year and due to COVID19, we have faced the problem of going to university to give lectures and consequently take the exams. The university administration has decided to hold the lectures online but not the online exams, which must be taken on the university campus. In this work, I try to explain the possibility of taking online exams such as the one in the office or the one written at the university. The main question is how to take the exam online and, at the same time, the exam must be as safe, reliable and acceptable as the one on site and normally held on the campus of the faculty. This paper presents a method for taking online exams without a proctored environment; it will be based on an open book test idea, open lecture notes, open internet resources. The proposed method is based on some constraints, in order to minimize or cancel cheating, and therefore consider the online exam as valid as the onsite one. The results show that both online exam grades and onsite exam grades have relatively strong correlations coefficient, both have similar distribution, fairly symmetrical skewness, platykurtic distribution, and both have similar central tendency and dispersion.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Online lectures, Online exams, Onsite exams, No Proctored Environment

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