Assessment systems drive the education system and whilst technology was touching many aspects of learning, it seems that the assessment system still is fixed by pen and paper.

In 2004 Future Lab produced a Literature review of e-assessment to take a closer look at it's increasingly important role in higher education.

The paper was subsequently updated 2007 to cover subjects such as

• Research projects and reviews
• Policy changes and development
• Market place and practitioner developers
  

You can download both the original paper and the updates at

http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/literature-reviews/Literature-Review204.

Other sources of useful information:

• Jisc's work to raise the issues and opportunities around e-assessment can be found at http://www.jisc.ac.uk/assessment.html
• the e-assessment group - http://www.e-assessmentgroup.net/

e-assessment at work

Providers that work directly with workplace solutions include:

• BTL
• Questionmark
• Pearson Vue

All of these providers have developed a range of white papers that may be of use.

 This article was last updated Jan 2010.

This article was originally created by the Work based e-learning project at e-skills UK and is reproduced with kind permission.

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