What are advantages of digital assessment?
Digital testing involves different user groups. On the one hand, there are the candidates; on the other, there are the testing organization. Consider training institutes, examination bodies or industry.
Benefits for candidates
- Flexible exam taking in terms of time and location;
- Exam results are known more quickly. Especially with closed questions, the results can be shown right away;
- Remote supervision allows you to take an exam from home;
- Poorly readable handwriting? No problem!
Benefits for reviewing organizations
- Clear storage of exam questions, in one place in a database structure;
- Exam questions can be reused;
- Statistics provides insight into the quality of questions;
- Question forms vary (both closed questions and open-ended questions);
- Correcting becomes easy;
- Developing exam questions costs less money;
- Question quality increases because quality can be continuously improved;
- Exam questions become more equivalent when the test matrix is leading;
- Better picture and overview of results;
- Content of review is better secured;
- Views on quality of training;
- Views on quality of professionals, teachers, proofreaders and test constructors;
- An exam can be set for each individual;
- Remote supervision via online proctoring also allows the taking of an exam elsewhere;
- Giving feedback during the learning process becomes easy.
