Design Approaches For Secure E-Assessment

Using electronic devices for assessments can help to overcome many shortcomings of traditional pen-and-paper exams. Most importantly it increases alignment between education – exam – job. For example, nowadays no one wants to do programming tests on paper! But when you want to use laptops and tablets for taking exams, you have to make various decisions on your approach, organization, IT hardware- and software infrastructure. These decisions are interdependent, you can see your future e-assessment environment as a formula or system with several variables. Some of these variables might have predefined values, others are unknown yet. Usually in the beginning you won’t know the value of several or even all of these variables, so you have to analyze both the needs of your educators and your prerequisites (infrastructure, available staff, existing organizational structures, legal conditions). There will always be several possible solutions for an exam environment, usually all with their individual advantages and disadvantages.

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