Practices of academic dishonesty in the context of online assessment during the pandemic

This paper delves into the practices of online assessment during the COVID pandemic worldwide and specifically in the Republic of Croatia. While at the time it was the only alternative, online assess-ment has raised the question of whether and in which measure online assessment can be offer a realistic picture of the students’ knowledge and skills. In order to prevent cheating on online exams, some edu-cational institutions have imposed very small time limits for solving online exams, which turned them into exams for quick solving skills. While acts of academic dishonesty have been present in both tradi-tional as well as online environment, the focus of this paper is on the question of whether and in which measure online assessment opened a door for academic dishonesty.