ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that to address e-cheating we need to balance promoting academic integrity and securing assessment against students who wish to cheat. The new concept of ‘assessment security’ is proposed, defined as measures taken to harden assessment against attempts to cheat. This includes approaches to detect and evidence attempts to cheat, as well as measures to make cheating more difficult. Assessment security consists of two key features: ‘authentication’, which refers to assurances that the student being assessed did the work themselves, and ‘control of circumstances’, which refers to measures taken to ensure an assessment is conducted under specific conditions. Existing and near-future approaches to improving assessment security are reviewed, with a special focus on technologies like surveillance, lockdown, stylometrics and content matching.
