"Institutional support for third-party proctoring software conveys credibility and makes the exam proctoring software appear safer and less potentially problematic because students assume that institutions have done proper vetting of both the software and the methods employed by the proctoring services," David Balash, a Ph.D. student at GW and a lead researcher on the study, said. "We recommend that institutions and educators follow a principle of least monitoring when using exam proctoring tools by using the minimum number of monitoring types necessary, given the class size and knowledge of expected student behavior." "As many universities and colleges return to the classroom, students may be less willing to trade their privacy for personal safety going forward," Rahel Fainchtein, a Ph.D. student at Georgetown University and a lead researcher on the study, said. "However, at the same time, online exam proctoring technology appears here to stay."
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-privacy-perceptions-online-proctoring.html
