Question

What challenges might present themselves when taking an online test? List four challenges and four strategies for working through them.

Answer 1

The key advantage of Online test, the distributed Infrastructure is it's biggest flaw, taking a online test from home saves a extremely huge amount of investment in physical infrastructure but that comes with a issue that, you can't verify the users, if you can by a camera how can you be sure of the other resources available to the candidates and if or not there are more the one people.helping etc

Solution - which can be done and are under development are , image processing to detect faces, voice recognition to make sure there is no one else in the same room, motion of eyes and other such things we can capture from the users using camera, voice and speed of typing etc

Second major problem with online test is design of the software and controls required for hardware maintenance, even today most of the people organising the exams needs a computer center not necessarily to keep a eye but because the third party tools required, permission, cyber attacks possibly etc are too big a risk while taking a exam on a clock.

Solution to this is one infrastructure, do it he way it's don't today have come to a center and then give the test alternative today is giving a platform for setup of a test and on can just go to a browser and if one has a good updated version of browser and internet to add extensions we will be able to add more advanced version of tests and be able to execute it from any device

Problem three - The format of answering like most examples today have to have the MCQs based tests and that makes it difficult for the examiner to do the test properly as there are questions which need a descriptive answering system.

Solution - NLP based answer verification tools are available in the market developed to understand the customer feedback today most of the tools have a option which can help we just need to make a version suitable to test answers of he kids so have been trained to a particular book or Syllabus to verify all ways of writing the same thing.

Finally, the biggest issue with the online world is the continued accessibility of internet and that is a one we will need to solve as these is a physical restriction to this problem.

Solution - This particular one will be needed to solve by providing a solution over the browser to maintain a system which in case of power or internet failure just either stop the test which is easier or let is continuously go on and update when the internet services are online, basically the Browser offline version should work for us to make this work. There is enough progress to make sure that the browser can keep this system online else blocking anything to be edited is atleast a bottle neck to prevent misuse of the medium or fall out due to power or internet issues.