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Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection
The COVID-19 pandemic has impelled the majority of schools and universities around the world to switch to remote teaching. One of the greatest challenges in online education is preserving the academic integrity of student assessments. The lack of direct supervision by instructors during final examin...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34347794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254340 |
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author | Kamalov, Firuz Sulieman, Hana Santandreu Calonge, David |
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description | The COVID-19 pandemic has impelled the majority of schools and universities around the world to switch to remote teaching. One of the greatest challenges in online education is preserving the academic integrity of student assessments. The lack of direct supervision by instructors during final examinations poses a significant risk of academic misconduct. In this paper, we propose a new approach to detecting potential cases of cheating on the final exam using machine learning techniques. We treat the issue of identifying the potential cases of cheating as an outlier detection problem. We use students’ continuous assessment results to identify abnormal scores on the final exam. However, unlike a standard outlier detection task in machine learning, the student assessment data requires us to consider its sequential nature. We address this issue by applying recurrent neural networks together with anomaly detection algorithms. Numerical experiments on a range of datasets show that the proposed method achieves a remarkably high level of accuracy in detecting cases of cheating on the exam. We believe that the proposed method would be an effective tool for academics and administrators interested in preserving the academic integrity of course assessments. |
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spelling | pubmed-83368562021-08-05 Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection Kamalov, Firuz Sulieman, Hana Santandreu Calonge, David PLoS One Research Article The COVID-19 pandemic has impelled the majority of schools and universities around the world to switch to remote teaching. One of the greatest challenges in online education is preserving the academic integrity of student assessments. The lack of direct supervision by instructors during final examinations poses a significant risk of academic misconduct. In this paper, we propose a new approach to detecting potential cases of cheating on the final exam using machine learning techniques. We treat the issue of identifying the potential cases of cheating as an outlier detection problem. We use students’ continuous assessment results to identify abnormal scores on the final exam. However, unlike a standard outlier detection task in machine learning, the student assessment data requires us to consider its sequential nature. We address this issue by applying recurrent neural networks together with anomaly detection algorithms. Numerical experiments on a range of datasets show that the proposed method achieves a remarkably high level of accuracy in detecting cases of cheating on the exam. We believe that the proposed method would be an effective tool for academics and administrators interested in preserving the academic integrity of course assessments. Public Library of Science 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8336856/ /pubmed/34347794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254340 Text en © 2021 Kamalov et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Kamalov, Firuz Sulieman, Hana Santandreu Calonge, David Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title | Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title_full | Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title_fullStr | Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title_full_unstemmed | Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title_short | Machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
title_sort | machine learning based approach to exam cheating detection |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8336856/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34347794 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254340 |
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