Correction of Threshold Determination in Rapid-Guessing Behaviour Detection

Muhammad Alfian, Umi Laili Yuhana, Eric Pardede*, Akbar Noto Ponco Bimantoro

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Abstract

Assessment is one benchmark in measuring students’ abilities. However, assessment results cannot necessarily be trusted, because students sometimes cheat or even guess in answering the questions. Therefore, to obtain valid results, it is necessary to separate valid and invalid answers by considering rapid-guessing behaviour. We conducted a test to record exam log data from undergraduate and postgraduate students to model rapid-guessing behaviour by determining the threshold response time. Rapid-guessing behaviour detection is inspired by the common k-second method. However, the method flattens the application of the threshold, thus allowing misclassification. The modified method considers item difficulty in determining the threshold. The evaluation results show that the system can identify students’ rapid-guessing behaviour with a success rate of 71%, which is superior to the previous method. We also analysed various aggregation techniques of response time and compared them to see the effect of selecting the aggregation technique.

Original languageEnglish
Article number422
JournalInformation (Switzerland)
Volume14
Issue number7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2023

Keywords

  • rapid-guessing behaviour
  • response time
  • threshold determination

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