Identifying a Secure E-Examination User Interface for Testing Illiterate Drivers

Abstract

In Nigeria, illiterate and other educationally challenged persons are permitted to obtain Driving Licenses but are not exempted from the required Competency Tests. Standard Oral Tests are being replaced by Online Computer Based Test (CBT). This creates a challenge for the illiterate and educationally challenged persons since the replacing CBT systems are wholly designed for the literate examinee. Designing an Online Examination Platform with the capacity to attend to illiterate and other educationally challenged persons requires an indepth study. Two challenges are paramount: first is identifying a suitable authentication scheme(s) for the online system that can guarantee the integrity of the tests; second is building an interface that is friendly to the users, thus accommodating their challenges. Based on the aforesaid challenges, the overall aim of this research paper was to determine an appropriate authentication scheme and requisite interface that can solve the identified challenges. To accomplish this, relevant data was gathered from the review of related works. The findings show that video/image/picture annotated with audio formats were the most viable for designing User -Interface for the illiterate and that the use of numbers as passwords was acceptable to functionally illiterate persons. It was then recommended that a prototype User Interface and associated Authentication System for online CBT-based competency testing of Drivers be designed and implemented based on the data gathered from this paper

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