I will credit the authors for their honesty, because as I read this study, pretty much everything that could go wrong did go wrong. The study was a decent size but of course not representative of students (consisting of the oft-studied students at a midwestern U.S. university), and involved only one proctoring system (Proctorio). They wanted to ask whether online proctoring made students anxious, and whether this effect was more pronounced for minority or low-income students. They couldn't get Pell grant status information because it was deemed too sensitive, so they relied on a proxy measure of whether students were first generation. On one question, only 22 (6.6%) said they felt anxious about the exam. The authors argue that "being remotely monitored by webcam appears to be a source of anxiety for some students" but we don't have any basis for comparison with (say) being monitored in person. In the conclusion, the authors talk more about the effect on the instructors than the students. Image: Erik Johnson.
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