The document discusses the challenges and opportunities of online assessment. It outlines that while online assessments provide cost efficiencies, there are challenges around ensuring testing integrity and security due to a lack of moderator control and uneven technology access. However, online assessments also create opportunities for individualized learning and seamless recruitment screening. The future of online assessment is positioned to take greater advantage of interactive features to develop critical thinking.

1. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
Challenges and
Opportunities of
Online
Assessment
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2. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
Overview
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The state of online assessments
Challenges
Opportunities
The future
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3. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
The state of online assessment
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The transition to computer-based testing has brought new
levels of efficiency.
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Cost-effectiveness, analytical tools, storage capability and instant
feedback to assessment processes are just some of the improvements.
In contrast to traditional computer-based testing stationed
within access of the test maker or some overseer, online
assessment requires sufficient and reliable internet
bandwidth, among other things.
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4. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
Challenges
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The lack of moderator control over testing conditions, uneven
access to technology and resources, technical difficulties and
hardware inconsistencies can impact the necessary
impartiality of testing.
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Additional consideration must be given to ensure the integrity
of information and data security.
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Some suggested strategies include focusing on more
subjective items such as case studies that call for more
analysis and application, restricting access with passwords
and usernames, and randomizing questions and order.
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5. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
Opportunities
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Many human resources departments currently make use of
online assessments at the first stage of the recruiting process,
as well as at the selection stage.
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After an applicant clicks on an "apply now" call-to-action from
an online job advertisement, they are seamlessly channeled
to a custom-created screening stage with application
questions and behavioral and skill assessments that aim to
predict future job performance.
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These online tests help take the guesswork out of selection,
creating great efficiencies and cost savings in the recruitment
process.
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6. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
Opportunities
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Technology utilizing an online exam maker enables a fuller
integration of instruction with assessment.
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Advantages include the virtually unlimited ease of distribution,
the extended availability enabling tests to be completed at a
candidate's convenience, and links to tracking and
management systems.
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Assessment and measurement becomes even more critical
without face-to-face interaction.
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Online assessment presents new and exciting possibilities of
individualized learning paradigms.
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7. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
The future
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Most organizations are just beginning to explore the vast
potential that comes with working with online exam software.
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Distance assessment should take advantage of the best
features of the online environment, including the development
of critical thinking questions determined by the flow of online
communications or formative techniques that enable selfregulation of learning.
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For instance, hyperlinks integrated into testing materials can
lead learners to sources that explain incorrect answers with
flexible pacing.
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8. Challenges and Opportunities
of Online Assessment
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