Addressing cheating in e-assessment using student authentication and authorship checking systems: teachers' perspectives


Mellar H., Peytcheva-Forsyth R., KOÇDAR S., KARADENİZ A., Yovkova B.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL INTEGRITY, cilt.14, 2018 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 14
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1007/s40979-018-0025-x
  • Dergi Adı: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR EDUCATIONAL INTEGRITY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: E-assessment, Student authentication, Authorship checking, Teachers' perspectives, ONLINE EXAMS, ACADEMIC-DISHONESTY, HIGHER-EDUCATION, PLAGIARISM, ENVIRONMENT
  • Anadolu Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Student authentication and authorship checking systems are intended to help teachers address cheating and plagiarism. This study set out to investigate higher education teachers' perceptions of the prevalence and types of cheating in their courses with a focus on the possible changes that might come about as a result of an increased use of eassessment, ways of addressing cheating, and how the use of student authentication and authorship checking systems might impact on assessment practice. This study was carried out within the context of the project TeSLA (an Adaptive Trustbased e-assessment System for Learning) which is developing a system intended for integration within an institution's Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) offering a variety of instruments to assure student authentication and authorship checking. Data was collected at two universities that were trialling the TeSLA system, one in Turkey, where the main modes of teaching are face-toface teaching and distance education, and one in Bulgaria, where the main modes of teaching are face-to-face teaching and blended learning. The study used questionnaires and interviews, building on existing TeSLA project evaluation activities and extending these to explore the specific areas we wished to examine in more depth.