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Table 1 Usability analysis: efficiency

From: Evaluating security and usability of profile based challenge questions authentication in online examinations

Question themes

Completion time (seconds)

Answer length (characters)

Academic questions

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Find out about this course

14.14

7.98

7.0

6.11

Student number

14.55

8.52

3.0

2.9

Name of last school attended

14.60

6.67

14.86

9.38

Grades in highest qualification

15.14

6.29

2.0

2.47

Year of highest qualification

15.20

7.16

4.0

0

Month started the current course

15.61

8.06

5.0

2.03

Year started the current course

16.18

8.98

4.29

1.07

Highest qualification

16.93

6.80

9.40

8.47

Personal questions

Father’s surname

13.55

8.76

4.71

1.26

Country of birth

13.78

7.25

7.20

1.37

Best friend’s surname

14.47

6.95

5.79

2.57

Dream job as a child

18.03

8.65

9.85

5.24

Favourite questions

Hero of your childhood

14.70

5.94

11.71

5.31

Tutor

15.06

8.13

8

3.48

Module on this course

18.34

9.8

7.5

5

Contact questions

Home Tel no with country code

15.73

8.78

10.60

3

Home address town

16.83

9.36

15

13.75

House name or number

17.18

7.8

19.58

18.55

Mobile number with country code

17.43

8.98

11.69

1.43

Date questions

Date of birth

16.42

6.75

6.36

3.91