SMART ASSESSMENT IN CYBER ENVIRONMENT: A SWOT ANALYSIS (THE PRACTICALITY OF SMART ASSESSMENT)

Despite stepping the world into the era of creating the e-learning content for educational system, e-assessment plays an important role in e-learning justice. The purpose of this qualitative study is to consider viability and practicality of e-assessment from multi-dimensional perspectives such as Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT), based on the learners, teachers and administrators attitudes toward designing an ideal agenda for performing e-assessment in an actual e-learning environment, and in line with the constructivistsʹ approach and Richard’s maxims. To this end, three questionnaires, a five-point Likert scale one- for three levels of respondents- ranging from 1(strongly agree) to 5 (no idea), are developed for data elicitation from participants, working in e-learning centers of some Iranian universities. Statistically, participants showed their interest in the strengths and opportunities as well as the operational values of e-assessment. But, the study has a deep challenge in its design; another challenging problem is the low IT literacy of the teachers and administrators and the final one refers to the misconception noble savage of the learners. Finally, this study predicts the future stance of development and expansion of e-assessment in the educational context with more collaboration among learners, teachers and administrators in educational settings.