Online assessment and COVID: opportunities and challenges

Simon Unshod; Meena Jha; Sander J. J. Leemans; Regina Berretta; Ayse Aysin Bilgin; Lakmali Jayarathna; Judy Sheard

doi:10.1145/3511861.3511865

Online assessment and COVID: opportunities and challenges

Simon Unshod, Meena Jha, Sander J. J. Leemans, Regina Berretta, Ayse Aysin Bilgin, Lakmali Jayarathna, Judy Sheard

School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

As higher education moved abruptly online in response to COVID-19, it necessarily swept assessment along with it. Assessment has long been the subject of debate, particularly in the context of ensuring that the people being awarded the grades are those who actually did the work. While some universities have moved away from rigidly authenticated assessment, trusting the students to behave with integrity, others see value in ensuring that they assess the right people. This paper reports on interviews with a dozen leading computing educators in Australia, and finds that the move online brought by the pandemic has highlighted both of these positions. Some academics do indeed trust their students to behave with complete integrity and see no need to supervise or authenticate the students’ submitted work. Others strive to ensure integrity as long as all assessment remains online and unsupervised, and are desperate to return to invigilated formal examinations. We endeavour to find common ground in these positions, and discuss the likelihood of a sustainable future for assessment in computing education.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ACE 2022
Subtitle of host publication	proceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	27-35
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450396431
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3511861.3511865
Publication status	Published - 2022
Event	Australasian Computing Education Conference (24th : 2022) - Online Duration: 14 Feb 2022 → 17 Feb 2022 Conference number: 24th

Conference

Conference	Australasian Computing Education Conference (24th : 2022)
Abbreviated title	ACE 2022
City	Online
Period	14/02/22 → 17/02/22

Keywords

academic integrity
computing education
online assessment
COVID- 19

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Unshod, S, Jha, M, Leemans, SJJ, Berretta, R, Bilgin, AA, Jayarathna, L & Sheard, J 2022, Online assessment and COVID: opportunities and challenges. in ACE 2022: proceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, pp. 27-35, Australasian Computing Education Conference (24th : 2022), Online, 14/02/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511861.3511865

Online assessment and COVID: opportunities and challenges. / Unshod, Simon; Jha, Meena; Leemans, Sander J. J. et al.
ACE 2022: proceedings of the 24th Australasian Computing Education Conference. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 27-35.

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Online assessment and COVID: opportunities and challenges

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Adaptability of academic integrity procedures and practices in the COVID-19-accelerated transition to online assessment

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