Importance of online assessment in the e-learning process

In this article, we present some general aspects of the on-line assessment activity. For the purpose of this paper, we want to focus in the assessment activity that take place in the e-learning process and discuss the importance of this action for each participant of the process. After that, we outline the desirable characteristics of an assessment tool under an adaptive learning environment, following with the description of the main attributes of an adaptive assessment tool for an adaptive learning environment actually in development.