08/09/2022
The software is “best compared to taking a placebo: it has some positive influence, not because it works but because people believe that it works, or that it might work.”
The results confirmed that Proctorio is not good at catching cheaters. The system did not flag any of the cheaters as cheating. The study says the software did flag those students as an “irregularity” but also flagged other honest students with the same irregularity.
Similarly, some cheaters used audio calls, but Proctorio did not flag their audio as abnormal, but did flag the audio of students taking tests in noisy environments as abnormal.
During the pandemic, Proctorio sold invasive software that claims to stop cheating. A new study shows otherwise.
