CONSIDERING CHALLENGES IN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF E-ASSESSMENT

The world stepped into the era of online information and technologies that virtually have impact on all sides of human life including economics, education, social and cultural sides (Shojaei, Motamedi, & Nekoueizadeh, 2013). The idea of having our assessments computerized is obviously attractive and e-assessment is emerging as a major driver to e-learning for administrators, instructors and learners. E-Assessment (sometimes known as Online Assessment, Computer-based Assessment or Computer Assisted Assessment-CAA) certainly has advantages, disadvantages and associated problems. Expansion of virtual e-assessment is one of the most appropriate approaches to make higher education easier and more convenient for learners by accessing to self-assessment. The existence of maladministration assessment at any educational level has the greatest threat to the validity and reliability of any examination and consequently to the authenticity and recognition of issued diploma. Therefore, there are many debates over how e-assessment should be designed and administered, and this leads to curriculum design and policy. By considering that e-assessment systems must be stable in order to generate valid and reliable assessments results, this paper tries to replicate and discuss a conceptual framework for implementation of authentic e-assessment in web-based courses.