Students’ Attitudes Towards Personal Data Sharing in the Context of e-Assessment: Informed Consent or Privacy Paradox?

Ekaterina Muravyeva*, José Janssen, Kim Dirkx, Marcus Specht

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    Abstract

    Modern technologies increasingly make use of personal data to provide better services. Technologies using biometric data for identity and authorship verification in the context of e-assessment are a case in point. Previous studies in e-health described a privacy paradox in relation to consent to personal data use: even when people consider protection of their personal data important, they consent fairly readily to personal data use. However, the new European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) assumes that people give free and informed consent. In the context of e-assessment, this study investigates students’ attitudes towards personal data sharing for identity and authorship verification purposes with the aim of optimising informed consent practice. Students with special educational needs or disabilities (SEND) were included as a specific target group because they may feel more dependent on e-assessment. The findings suggest that a privacy paradox exists in the context of e-assessment as well. Furthermore, the results indicate that students are more reluctant to share video recordings of their face than other personal data. Finally, our results confirm the effect found in previous studies on e-health: those feeling a stronger need for technologies, in this case SEND students, are more inclined to consent to personal data use. Implications for informed consent practice are discussed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTechnology Enhanced Assessment
    Subtitle of host publication21st International Conference, TEA 2018, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, December 10–11, 2018, Revised Selected Papers
    EditorsSilvester Draaijer , Desirée Joosten-ten Brinke , Eric Ras
    Place of PublicationCham
    PublisherSpringer
    Pages16-26
    Number of pages11
    ISBN (Electronic)978-3-030-25264-9
    ISBN (Print)978-3-030-25263-2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Jul 2019
    EventTEA 2018 Technology Enhanced Assessment Conference - Amsterdam, Netherlands
    Duration: 10 Dec 201811 Dec 2018

    Publication series

    SeriesCommunications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)
    Volume1014
    ISSN1865-0929

    Conference

    ConferenceTEA 2018 Technology Enhanced Assessment Conference
    Country/TerritoryNetherlands
    CityAmsterdam
    Period10/12/1811/12/18

    Keywords

    • Decision-making
    • Informed Consent
    • Personal Data
    • Privacy
    • Sensitive Data
    • e-Assessment

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