Abstract
The Covid-19 pandemic forced universities to convert their traditional face-to-face exams to online exams with doubts as to whether student cheating or technical difficulties would affect their final grades. After taking three of these exams online, we considered comparing their grades with those of previous years on traditional exams. The average mark of the traditional exams before the pandemic was 6.95 over 10, while the average mark of the three exams carried out in the Covid-19 era is 6.64. The student's t test indicated that there are no significant differences between the two types of exams in the mean (p = 0.408), the median (p = 0.378), the range (p = 0.307), the minimum (p = 0.410) and the maximum (p = 0.072). Taking online exams did not modify the exam grades compared to previous years. There is a lot of variability in similar studies in the literature due to cheating that can be performed in online exams. A proctoring system, good question design, and limited exam time can minimize these differences.
Highlights
The quarantines and lockdowns decreed by practically all governments during the spring of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic forced universities around the world to quickly transform their teaching, practices, and exams to online training due to the impossibility of performing them face-to-face
General research wishes to find differences between groups, in this concrete case the good news would be that the implementation of online exams has not influenced students' grades, and migration to online exams during the Covid-19 pandemic has not affected the performance of our students
You may notice some small fluctuations between the number of students who take the midterm and final exam, they are exceptions based on several explanations: students who decide not to take the final exam, or who enroll the course late, or who cannot take the midterm for whatever justified cause
Summary
The quarantines and lockdowns decreed by practically all governments during the spring of 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic forced universities around the world to quickly transform their teaching, practices, and exams to online training due to the impossibility of performing them face-to-face. It is easy with current technology to find the answers to the exam questions, and there are even companies that carry out the exam for the student (Daffin Jr & Jones, 2018). Academic dishonesty includes: conducting the exam by an expert instead of the student, several students taking an exam that should be individual, using prohibited sources such as books or Internet webpages (Reisenwitz, 2020), sheets with annotations, plagiarizing a work or copying exercises (Daffin Jr & Jones, 2018), waiting to take your own exam so you can get answers from other students, making false statements to be able to take the exam again (for example claiming that the connection failed), setting up two computers (one to perform the exam and another to find answers) or even buying the answers on the Internet (Moten Jr et al, 2013)
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