What are the advantages and disadvantages of on-line testing as compared with the traditional pencil-and-paper method?
The principal advantages of on-line testing are convenience, speed and cost. With on-line testing, you do not need people to come to your premises to take a test. All you need is to send them the link and their entry codes (e.g. organisation code, access code, password) for your on-line facility and this allows them to take the tests and questionnaires on-line whenever and wherever is convenient to them. As regards speed, as soon as the questionnaire responses are submitted, the data is analysed and a report is created and e-mailed to you (with perhaps also a feedback report sent to the test-taker as well). All of this happens in less than a second after the data has been submitted. As regards cost, the costs of on-line test administration and reports are very significantly cheaper than the cost of pencil-and-paper test materials and bureau-service reports. However, by far the greatest saving is in terms of staff time that would otherwise be involved in the test administration, scoring
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