Stop the cheating! best practices to minimize security risks on exams
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Stop the Cheating! Best Practices to
Minimize Security Risks on ExamsDr. Aimee Strang, Assistant Dean for Curricular Assessment, Albany College of
Pharmacy and Health Sciences
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Stop the Cheating!
Best Practices to Minimize Security Risks
Aimee Strang, Pharm.D., MSHPEd, BCPS
Assistant Dean of Curricular Assessment
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
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Objectives
• Identify ways students can cheat in ExamSoft
• Describe what to do (or not do) when creating and posting exams
• Discuss exam day practices to limit cheating
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Who Cheats?
• Self-reports suggest >50% of university students cheat 1
• Nursing: >50% (n=336) reported cheating in classroom or clinical settings 2
• Pharmacy: 11.8% (n=331) admitted to cheating 3
• Self-reported prevalence progressively decreased from junior high (33%)
• 55% were aware of cheating at their institutions
• Physiology department scanned 3620 midterms across 11 courses 4
• Prevalence of cheating was 2.2% ; 17.4% of tests submitted for regrading
• High-achieving students - 60% of offenders earned >80%
1. Christensen Hughes JM, McCabe DL. Understanding Academic Misconduct.Can J High Educ 36: 49-63, 2006
2. 1. Krueger L. Academic dishonesty among nursing students. J Nurs Educ. 2014 Feb;53(2):77-87.
3. Ip EJ, Nguyen K, Shah BM, Doroudgar S, Bidwal MK. Motivations and Predictors of Cheating in Pharmacy School. Am J Pharm Educ. 2016 Oct 25;80(8):133.
4. Ottaway K, Murrant C, Ritchie K. Cheating after the test: who does it and how often? Adv Physiol Educ. 2017 Sep 1;41(3):368-374
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Why do students cheat?
• Culture: Students get accustomed to taking academically deceitful actions 1
• Behaviors become acceptable and normal over time
• Time management (procrastination) 2, 3
• Perceived seriousness 2
• Social influence: perceived acceptance of (1) friends and (2) family 2, 4
• Need to do well and fear of failure 2, 3
• Perceived ease of cheating 4
1. Macale L, Ghezzi V, Rocco G, Fida R, Vellone E, Alvaro R. Academic dishonesty among Italian nursing students: A longitudinal study. Nurse Educ Today. 2017
Mar;50:57-61
2. Henning MA, Ram S, Malpas P, Sisley R, Thompson A, Hawken SJ. Reasons for academic honesty and dishonesty with solutions: a study of pharmacy and medical
students in New Zealand. J Med Ethics. 2014 Oct;40(10):702-9.
3. Ip EJ, Nguyen K, Shah BM, Doroudgar S, Bidwal MK. Motivations and Predictors of Cheating in Pharmacy School. Am J Pharm Educ. 2016 Oct 25;80(8):133.
4. Lonsdale D. Intentions to Cheat: Ajzen's Planned Behavior and Goal-Related Personality Facets. J Psychol. 2017 Feb 17;151(2):113-129.
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Implications
• Students appreciate a code of academic integrity and want to earn their
degree without cheating 1
• Multifactorial approach
• Character of student population
• Ethical culture of institution
• Testing procedures
• Curriculum
• Implications of assessments (student risk)
• Prevention programs
1. VanDeGrift T, Dillon H, Camp L.Changing the Engineering Student Culture with Respect to Academic Integrity and Ethics. Sci Eng Ethics. 2017 Aug;23(4):1159-1182
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Influence of ExamSoft
• Students
• Harder to cheating
• Increased risk of getting caught
• Institution
• Increased awareness
• Decreased tolerance
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Item Writing
• Use straightforward, unadorned language
• Re-use identical answer sets with different questions
• Use identical images more than once
• No extraneous visual information
• Create new questions each time
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Item Writing
• Create items that can be randomized
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Item Writing
• Don’t group questions unless they are part of a case
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Exam Creation
• Use pre-assessment notice for honor code
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Exam Creation
• Use secure exams
• Randomize question AND choices
• No backward navigation
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Posting the Assessment
• Use a good password
• NOT Bioexam1
• NOT A5gTu85
• welove10hippos
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Posting the Assessment
• Use remote deletion
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Posting the Assessment
• Use ping and release
• Need internet
• If there is no internet, need
universal resume code
• “System indicates you have already
taken this exam before. This exam will
be logged for auditing purposes.”
• The server ping also checks for
remote exam deletion
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Secure Review
• Use different password than
exam password
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Secure Review
Immediate Review
• Students will have answers while
others are still taking the exam
• Use a time limit
• Display incorrect questions only
• *Caution* tiered lecture halls
Delayed review
• Set start time after exam ends
• Maintain exam conditions during
delayed exam reviews
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Exam Day
• Assigned seating
• Available 1 hour prior to exam
• Changes with each exam
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Exam Day
• Use proctors
• Student proctors
• 2-3 per exam
• Walk around, stand at top of lecture hall
• Look for large font sizes
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Exam Day
• Use colored scrap paper
• Paper honor code – attendance list
• Print student’s name in scrap paper or honor code
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Exam Day
• Use screen protectors if possible
• May not work in tiered lecture halls
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Exam Day
• Ensure correct
exam name
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Exam Day
• View student’s upload prior to exiting the exam
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Exam Day
• View students who have not uploaded after exam is over
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Exam Day
• Review student
start and finish
times
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Suspected Cheating
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Suspected Cheating
• Use the log file
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Exam Day
• No phones, smart watches, smart rings
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Questions?