Mechanisms for Objectivity Ensuring and Fraud Prevention in the Online Academic Assessment

Abstract

The recent online teaching experience we all were forced into during the pandemic period made us reflect on the existing teaching practices and their efficacy, while imposing on finding new ways, roles and functions for the classical teaching, learning and assessment activity. Academic assessment in particular proved to be a challenge in the sense that new and unexpected isses had to be managed. While the use of digital platforms offered support for new assessment and evaluation strategies, including improved feedback and ways of tracking students’ development, sensitive issues such as that of avoiding exam fraud risks, and the need for improving evaluation validity and authenticity appeared. The present paper offers an insight on university students’ and teachers’ perception on academic assessment, its added value and risks. It also provides some empirical proves for the need of integrating valuable lessons from the online evaluation experience and transfer them in hybrid and onsite academic education process.