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Using Aadhaar for Continuous Test-Taker Presence Verification in Online Exams

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In the context of Indian higher education, deployment of online exams for summative assessments is hampered by the lack of a reliable e-assessment system that can guarantee high degree of examination integrity. Current methods for maintaining integrity of online exams largely depend on proctor-based invigilation. This cumbersome method does not fully prevent test-taker impersonation. We propose leveraging the Aadhaar biometric data to verify the presence of the test-taker throughout the entire duration of the examination. Such a continuous presence verification technique is likely to be far more successful in preventing impersonation than the conventional methods. Our method can help eventually eliminate the need for a remote proctor. We identify a set of strategies to systematically validate the effectiveness of the proposed system.

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    N. Sethu Subramanian, Sankaran Narayanan, M. D. Soumya, Nitheeswar Jayakumar & Kamal Bijlani

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Subramanian, N.S., Narayanan, S., Soumya, M.D., Jayakumar, N., Bijlani, K. (2018). Using Aadhaar for Continuous Test-Taker Presence Verification in Online Exams. In: Satapathy, S., Tavares, J., Bhateja, V., Mohanty, J. (eds) Information and Decision Sciences. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 701. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7563-6_2

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