Effect of Timers on the Keystroke Pattern of the Student in a Computer Based Exam

This research studies the effect of a countdown timer and a count-up timer on the keystroke pattern of the student and finds out whether changing the timer type changes the keystroke pattern. It also points out which timer affects more students in a timer environment during exams. We used two hypothesis testing statistical Algorithms, namely, the Two-Sample T-Test and One-way ANOVA Test, for analysis to identify the effect of different times our whether significant differences were found in the keystroke pattern or not when different timers were used. The supporting results have been found with determines that timer change can change the keystroke pattern of the student and from the study of hypothesis testing, different students result from different types of stress when they are under different timer environments.