Episode 009: Evil Big Brother

The first episode of the new year! Happy new year to everyone and we have a great conversation with Shea Swauger to start out 2021. We're covering the iniquities of proctoring and how those affect students and institutions. This is a long episode at around 90 minutes, but I tried to break it up into bite-size segments. This topic is insanely pertinent as we march toward the start of another semester that's likely to be remote learning for just about everyone, so have a listen and please, please share with your friends, colleagues, and faculty members who might benefit from a deep dive into why proctoring promotes discrimination. Show notes below! Online proctoring is surging during COVID-19 Online proctoring platforms claim to prevent cheating. But at what cost? But What If They Cheat? Giving Non-Proctored Online Assessments The Best Ways to Prevent Cheating in College The Impact of Honor Codes and Perceptions of Cheating on Academic Cheating Behaviors, Especially for MBA Bound Undergraduates Why Honor Codes Reduce Student Cheating Exam Surveillance Tools Monitor, Record Students During Tests Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, according to a federal study The Best Algorithms Still Struggle to Recognize Black Faces Facial-Recognition Software Might Have a Racial Bias Problem Ed-Tech Specialist Fights Proctorio Lawsuit Woman says she was subjected to hijab screening before exam How to Assess Higher-Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom How to Make Authentic Research Experiences Widely Available Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences: Current knowledge and future directions Erin L. Dolan Texas Institute for Disc Authors: Michelle Alexander Safiya Noble Ruha Benjamin Anna Lauren Hoffmann