Due
to the rapid advancement of technology, the science of cryptography
increasingly gained importance. Basically, the encryption algorithms used to
encrypt the message or data. This work is motivated from ÖSYM (National University Entrance Exam of Turkey in 2011). The
main aim of this study is to analyse the impact of encrypted multiple choice
exam on students’ success in Computer I course which is offered to Faculty of
Law at Cyprus International University. Therefore, the study uses the results of
an encrypted and non-encrypted multiple choice exam used in Computer I course.
Encrypted multiple choice exam involves individual question sheets for each
student having their own answer keys. For this reason, the original exam
questions were arranged differently for each student. Thus, a separate answer
key is created for each one of the students. While there were 150 students who
took the course in fall 2011-2012, there was no assigned priority to any of the
questions. In the implementation, the generated one-time pads (keys) are
permutations of n numbers where n was the number of questions. This
paper aims to compare effect of encrypted exam with non-encrypted exam results
on different groups of students’ success, using descriptive and inferential
statistics. It is aimed to measure whether or not there is a correlation
between the encrypted and non-encrypted exam results.
cryptography in education encrypted exams assessment in education assessment methods to measure student success
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Publication Date | September 1, 2015 |
Published in Issue | Year 2015 Volume: 2 |