The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic changed the landscape of education and led to increased usage of remote proctoring tools that are designed to monitor students when they take assessments outside the classroom. While prior work has explored students' privacy and security concerns regarding online proctoring tools, the perspective of educators is under explored. Notably, educators are the decision makers in the classrooms and choose which remote proctoring services and the level of observations they deem appropriate. To explore how educators balance the security and privacy of their students with the requirements of remote exams, we sent survey requests to over 3,400 instructors at a large private university that taught online classes during the 2020/21 academic year. We had n=125 responses: 21% of the educators surveyed used online exam proctoring services during the remote learning period, and of those, 35% plan to continue using the tools even when there is a full return to in-person learning. Educators who use exam proctoring services are often comfortable with their monitoring capabilities. However, educators are concerned about students sharing certain types of information with exam proctoring companies, particularly when proctoring services collect identifiable information to validate students' identities. Our results suggest that many educators developed alternative assessments that did not require online proctoring and that those who did use online proctoring services often considered the tradeoffs between the potential risks to student privacy and the utility or necessity of exam proctoring services.
翻译:COVID-19大流行的开始改变了教育环境,并导致更多地使用旨在监测学生在课堂外进行评估时监测学生的远程激励工具。虽然先前的工作探索了学生对在线激励工具的隐私和安全关切,但正在探索教育者的观点。值得注意的是,教育者是教室的决策者,他们选择了哪些远程激励服务和他们认为适当的观察水平。为了探索教育者如何平衡学生的安全和隐私与远程考试的要求,我们向在2020/21学年教授在线课程的大型私立大学的3 400多名教师发出了调查请求。我们收到了n=125的答复:接受调查的教育工作者中,21%的人在远程学习期间使用在线测试测试服务,35%的人计划继续使用这些工具,即使完全返回到个人学习。使用考试激励服务的教育工作者往往对其监测能力感到舒适。然而,教育工作者关注学生与考试激励公司分享某些类型的信息,特别是当测试服务收集可识别的信息以验证学生的身份时。我们的结果是:在远程学习期间,接受调查的教育工作者中21%的人使用了在线测试服务,他们常常认为,他们可能使用在线选择了在线选择服务。我们的研究结论认为,谁使用了在线选择了在线评估方法,谁可以使用在线评估了在线选择了选择学生的考试。</s>