Another Dimension in Online Cheating - The Reporting Phase of Unsupervised COVID-19 Test Results (Preprint)
Authors: Besong Donald 
Published: June 2022

BACKGROUND

If there are not too many candidates for these tests compared to available medics, candidates can scan their results, or share live videos of their test with medics [2].
Now, imagine a pandemic scenario where a new strain of Covid-19 is taking its toll.
Urgent unsupervised tests may be required for:
- mass evacuation and isolation
- attending work and meetings
- travel

The above scenario is exactly what was faced during the lifting of COVID-19 lockdowns. Although the tests themselves are sufficiently accurate, the reporting phase in an unsupervised test in the above scenario unfortunately, is open for cheating. Therefore even if their result was actually positive, or they didn't take the test at all, they can still register a negative outcome with 100% success on the online portal [2].

The internet is currently used in the field of medicine. Paul J. Et Al. describe how the internet is being employed in multicentre clinical trials to facilitate data collection [26]. Although this is a great advancement, it poses a few manageable issues such as internet security. Paul J. Et Al. [26] do not mention online cheating because it is not an issue, since the data is entered by medical professionals at medical centres (i.e. in randomised clinical trials). In the case of unsupervised Rapid Antigen Tests, candidates need to be trusted. Unfortunately, a lot of them cheat. This work assumes the clinical accuracy of the Rapid Antigen Test, and examines only with the reporting layer of these tests.
The problem of online cheating in clinical settings has not yet been addressed in previous papers, and is the subject of this paper. The closest subject has been about attitudes toward online academic online testing [3] - [9], [11] - [17] and many others. However, academic online testing has little or no resemblance to clinical testing.
In this paper, I demonstrate that there may be a hugely lucrative area of online cheating - the registration of Unsupervised Rapid Antigen Test Results.

OBJECTIVE

To show that the problem of online cheating in clinical settings has not yet been addressed in previous papers.
To show that demonstrate that there may be a hugely lucrative area of online cheating - the registration of Unsupervised Rapid Antigen Test Results.

METHODS

Research / analysis / testing of various commercial products.

RESULTS

5. Please state two take-home conclusions or findings from this research work.
Answer:
- There is currently no software for the reliable registration of completely unsupervised Rapid Antigen Test results, and this problem has not yet been addressed in science journals. Literature on academic online cheating does not address any form of COVID testing.
- Creating software programs to detect cheating in the online registration of completely unsupervised Rapid Antigen Test results might open up a new lucrative area for research and software development.

CONCLUSIONS

There may be a hugely lucrative area of online cheating for software engineers in collaboration with clinical scientists - the registration of Unsupervised Rapid Antigen Test Results.

CLINICALTRIAL

Not applicable