In are recent article in The Verge Monica Chin investigates the impact of remote live monitoring of students taking exams online and finds that the practice seems to add stress to the already stressful examination process. Interviews with students taking exams with live proctors, proctors themselves, and representatives of proctoring companies such as Examity provide an interesting inside look at the growing practice of online proctoring.
The article raises questions of how to deter student cheating online, how to rethink assessment in the online environment, and the invasive nature of live online proctoring when the proctors need a 360 view of the room used for the exam as well as control of the student’s computer and when the student’s data is captured without security guarantees.
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