OK google: what’s the answer? characteristics of students who searched the internet during an online chemistry examination Schultz, Madeleine, Lim, Kieran, Goh, YK and Callahan, Damien 2022, OK google: what’s the answer? characteristics of students who searched the internet during an online chemistry examination, Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, pp. 1-17, doi: 10.1080/02602938.2022.2048356. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title OK google: what’s the answer? characteristics of students who searched the internet during an online chemistry examination Author(s) Schultz, Madeleine orcid.org/0000-0001-7967-5147 Lim, Kieran orcid.org/0000-0001-5355-8030 Goh, YK Callahan, Damien orcid.org/0000-0002-6384-8717 Journal name Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education Start page 1 End page 17 Total pages 17 Publisher Taylor & Francis Place of publication London, Eng. Publication date 2022 ISSN 0260-2938 1469-297X Keyword(s) online examinations cheating academic dishonesty COVID-19 undergraduate chemistry Social Sciences Education & Educational Research COLLEGE-STUDENTS DISHONESTY HONEST Summary Restrictions on movement during the COVID-19 pandemic led to assessment being conducted online, which gave students opportunities to use internet search engines during examinations. We found that in some cases internet searches resulted in characteristic incorrect responses, and around one third of students entered these answers to examination questions in a foundation chemistry unit. Classification of those students allowed us to analyse their performance on other assessment tasks and we found that students who used an internet search and input incorrect results performed worse across all assessment tasks. Use of online proctoring and an academic honesty module in subsequent semesters reduced the percentage of students entering incorrect answers found though internet searches. We explored the relationship between students’ prior knowledge, investment in content and self-efficacy with the use of internet searches during their examination. We found significant correlations with prior knowledge and investment, but not with self-efficacy. Our data calls for better authentication of online assessment, because in most cases internet searches give correct responses and so it is impossible to be sure that a student has generated the response. We propose guidelines to reduce the use of search engines during examinations. Supplemental data for this article is available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2022.2048356. Language eng DOI 10.1080/02602938.2022.2048356 Field of Research 13 Education HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30164765 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment School of Life and Environmental Sciences Related Links Link Description Connect to published version Go to link with your DU access privileges   Connect to Elements publication management system Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Mon, 21 Mar 2022, 07:18:44 EST Mon, 21 Mar 2022, 17:29:14 EST Mon, 21 Mar 2022, 17:53:19 EST Fri, 25 Mar 2022, 10:40:29 EST Sat, 26 Mar 2022, 01:45:52 EST Thu, 05 May 2022, 09:37:55 EST Mon, 13 Jun 2022, 15:22:58 EST Mon, 13 Jun 2022, 16:48:08 EST Mon, 13 Jun 2022, 16:54:48 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Cited 0 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 30 Abstract Views, 0 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Mon, 21 Mar 2022, 07:18:44 EST