On Individualized Online Assessments in STEM Subjects

As traditional paper-based examinations became difficult to conduct during the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more universities sought to look at online alternatives. While online assessments have their advantages, they lend themselves to collusion as well as contract-cheating. This paper proposes individualized questions as a potential solution, and presents an approach for designing and implementing individualized questions for online assessments. This approach is deemed to work particularly well in STEM subjects, and scales to large classes.