Mumbai: With the Coronavirus pandemic continues to have an impact on the education sector, a report has shown that 63 percent of institutions throughout the world, including in India, are for Hybrid routes to conduct examinations.
Although the pandemic has had an impact on the education and inspection sectors moving towards digital ecosystems in the past 15 months, but 63 percent of those surveyed said they would conduct a hybrid test, a mixture of both offline and online, according to Mercer Mettl’s’ State of Online Exisinations Report 2021 ‘.
Safe! You have managed to throw your votelogin to see respondents of Respondents 650, including Dean, Head of Department, Professor and other influential decision makers, from more than 150 educational institutions throughout the country, participating in the survey.
The numbers indicate the receipt of a broad and fast digital assessment tool, highlighting the readiness of the education sector to adopt and utilize technology to offer the exam, the report records.
Nearly six of the 10 respondents (57 percent) quoted cheating as their main concern in the online exam, showing that giving tests with integrity and in a sedified environment for academics, he said.
This revelation is a direct message to service providers to increase their anti-fraud protection platform in a virtual model, he added.
Universities and colleges have also submitted a list of substantial wishes and services.
For example, almost seven of the 10 respondents expect a better mechanism than online exam service providers to clamp fraud to ensure fraud-free virtual examination, followed by 62 percent who expect increased ability to cut several types of exams (MCQ, descriptive and type of diagram, among others ).
The numbers show that universities and colleges are interested in the use of online platforms and will offer direction signals to service providers to increase their offer, he added.
CEO of Mercer Mettl Siddhartha Gupta said the practice of education and inspection had undergone tectonic changes in the last 15 months of the pandemic.
Leaders, together in the education sector and Edutech, must ensure technology mainstreaming and isolate the education ecosystem from current and unexpected disorders, he added.