Guidelines for Online Assessments for Educators

These guidelines are intended to support educators in critically examining the role of online
assessment in their teaching, and to provide different strategies and tools that can be used for online
assessment, thereby empowering educators to make informed decisions about how they use ICT for
assessment. These guidelines should therefore:
• expand educators’ theoretical grounding of assessment;
• shift educators’ core beliefs that assessment should measure the extent to which learners can
remember and reproduce knowledge;
• help educators to set authentic assessment tasks that yield products with value in real life;
• develop an understanding of how the affordances of online tools can maximise learning;
• help educators critically examine the role of online assessment in teaching and learning;
• provide examples of different strategies and tools that can be used for online assessment;
and
• empower teachers and educators to make informed decisions on online assessment.