Investigating students' perceptions of fairness for computer based exams

Computer-based tests have numerous advantages over paper-based ones, including allowing instructors to scale up their classes by removing the bottleneck of manual grading, as well as facilitating data collection and analysis. At the University of Illinois, instructors have adopted and extended computer-based testing to support asynchronous exams. Students may take their exams asynchronously at convenient times, and they are assigned questions randomly from a pool of question variants. Previous work has been done to compare variants and test equality, but little research has been conducted to determine students’ perceptions of fairness of these exams. In this work, we investigate students’ fairness perceptions for major aspects of the computerized exams. We perform a qualitative study and lay the groundwork for future quantitative analysis.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2020

Author dc:creator

• Emeka, Chinedu Alexander

Contributors dc:contributor

• Zhai, ChengXiang
• Zilles, Craig

• fairness
• variants
• exam

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2019 Chinedu Alexander Emeka

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106292

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/106292