Academic Integrity in Online Foreign Language Assessment

Abstract

The immediate transition to online teaching due to the pandemic has required the institutions to employ online assessment more frequently than ever. However, most teachers, students, and schools are not ready for that. Therefore, they have not planned and practiced their assessment methods effectively in online settings because of some challenges faced. One of them is the difficulty in sustaining academic integrity in digital environments, and many studies have already concluded there is a huge increase in dishonest behaviors in online assessment tasks. But academic integrity is an indispensable concept to improve teaching and learning by performing reliable, valid, and secure assessments, especially in online platforms. Then, the purpose of this chapter is to discuss academic integrity in relation to online foreign language assessment practiced during the pandemic by presenting the background to online assessment, academic integrity, and their relationship, and reporting the recent research studies within this scope.