Advanced Tools for the estimation of basic Knowledge Level on Education and Training
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Fingerprint Recognition, Biometrics in Education, Online AssessmentAbstract
We describe the use of our online assessment system (Server-Client) equipped by biometric recognition capabilities, applied to evaluate the basic knowledge in a High School. In this Report we discuss the possibilities of real identification of remote students to solve important problem: “Who's there?” In our experiment we randomly selected a sample of students (n=54) and performed two evaluations: a normal evaluation (paper and pencil), and a computer assessment. In the latter case our online assessment system with biometric tools could authenticate a student by means of index fingerprint. If a student is authenticated, the system allows online assessment, meanwhile such a student is being monitoring by web cams. During online assessment students were affected by the online environment, they obtained lower grades online than on traditional tests. Fingerprint recognition was very well accepted. However, 13% of students tested dislike web cam monitoring, and 20% of them noticed a way to commit cheat. This technology allows us to obtain the comparable statistics of both evaluations and discuss general recommendations for strategy, technology and equipping of online computer assessment.
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