Adoption of Online Proctored Examinations by University Students during COVID-19: Innovation Diffusion Study

Autor/inn/en	Raman, Raghu; B., Sairam; G., Veena; Vachharajani, Hardik; Nedungadi, Prema
Titel	Adoption of Online Proctored Examinations by University Students during COVID-19: Innovation Diffusion Study
Quelle	In: Education and Information Technologies, 26 (2021) 6, S.7339-7358 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Raman, Raghu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1360-2357
DOI	10.1007/s10639-021-10581-5
Schlagwörter	Computer Assisted Testing; Supervision; Adoption (Ideas); Technology Integration; Educational Technology; Educational Innovation; Affordances; Usability; Student Attitudes; College Students; Multicampus Colleges; COVID-19; Pandemics + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ideas; Ideenfindung; Unterrichtsmedien; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Schülerverhalten; Collegestudent
Abstract	COVID-19 global pandemic pushed a large number of higher educational institutions to use Online Proctored Exams (OPE) because of government-imposed lockdowns. Treating OPE as an educational technology innovation, we apply the diffusion of innovation theory in predicting factors affecting its adoption by university students which we believe is the first of its kind research study. The study presented here reviews OPE, its types, architecture, challenges, and prospects and then focuses on the student adoption experience at a large, multi-campus higher educational institution. We have used the fine-grained Aspect Level Sentiment Analysis to check the university students' attitudes towards the Online Proctored Exams. We then used linguistic features to extract the aspect terms present in the feedback comments which showed that 55% of university students having a positive attitude towards OPE. Results of our study show that innovation characteristics such as relative advantage, compatibility, ease of use, trialability, and observability were found to be positively related to acceptance of OPE. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01