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Work In Progress: Side-Facing Cameras and Remote Proctoring Integrity

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

Computers in Education 11 - Modulus 3

Page Count

10

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41223

Permanent URL

https://peer.asee.org/41223

Download Count

526

Paper Authors

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Patriel Stapleton University of Florida

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I'm of Afro-Caribbean descent and spent most of my life raised on the beautiful islands of St. Kitts and Nevis. I am a double Gator at the University of Florida with a B.S. in Computer Science and am currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Human-Center Computing. I aim to conduct research that examines and produces technologies that support learning. This is incredibly important as the pace of technologies often advances without concern for the experiences of people of color.

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Jeremiah Blanchard

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Dr. Jeremiah Blanchard currently serves as the Director of Computer Engineering and is Co-Director of the Engaging Learning Lab. His research focuses on how programming language representation connects to learning, remote digital computing assessment techniques, and educational games in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Dr. Blanchard graduated from the University of Florida with his PhD in Computer Engineering. He served as the CISE UF Online Director from from 2017-2021.

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Abstract

Many in academia perceive that remotely proctored exams allow more opportunities for a student to cheat than in-person testing. We introduced the use of the side-facing camera arrangement to increase the integrity of remote proctored exams by expanding the view of the examinee’s environment and therefore reducing the opportunities to cheat. The side-facing camera arrangement displays the examinee’s head, torso, hands, and keyboard and therefore should make behaviors consistent with cheating more obvious. This alternate camera arrangement serves as an environment camera in addition to monitoring the student throughout the exam. This paper is a report on the continued work to assess the efficacy of the side-facing camera arrangement. We followed up on our successful deployment of the side-facing camera in a large online class by examining how the attitudes and perceptions of students vary between the two camera arrangements. In Spring 2021, we asked students to complete pre- and post-surveys from three different classes and found that most students were not negatively impacted by the camera arrangement used. We qualitatively coded the students’ responses to identified themes among them. Most of the respondents surveyed didn’t have any preference towards the camera arrangement used in remote testing. After the post-survey, more students expressed that they felt there was a higher sense of integrity when using the side-facing camera arrangement. Students also reported that they had a difficult time setting up the side-facing camera arrangement, but all students who were required to use the side-facing camera arrangement were able to do so. Students also expressed some concern about their physical privacy when using the side-facing camera. Our ongoing work seeks to address the concerns we identified in our assessment of the surveys while increasing the integrity of remote proctored exams as well as the comfortability of students.

Stapleton, P., & Blanchard, J. (2022, August), Work In Progress: Side-Facing Cameras and Remote Proctoring Integrity Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41223

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