(531) STUDENTS’ AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORSHIP CHECKING SYSTEM AS A FACTOR AFFECTING STUDENTS’ TRUST IN ONLINE ASSESSMENT

摘要

Students’ trust is a key component in the organizations working in a very competitive environment as universities. Online assessment is also dependant on trust, and it should be considered as a very important factor for successful assessment. One of the discussed in the literature factors that can support the provision of trusted online assessment is the use of student’s authentication and authorship checking system. The focus of this study is on the use of such system developed by a project funded by EU Horizon 2020 ICT Programme - TeSLA and the way it affects students’ trust in online assessment. The study examines the attitudes of Sofia University (Bulgaria) students who used different TeSLA instruments or combinations of them in their course assessments during the academic year 2017/2018. It discusses whether the students found the e-authenticated assessment trustworthy and reliable alternative to traditional face-to-face assessments. Data includes two questionnaires (preand post-) completed respectively by 465/342 students. The results indicated a non-significant effect of student authentication and authorship checking system on students’ trust and revealed the specific impact of the different authentication instruments.