Evaluation of Student's Knowledge - An Overview of the Testing and Assessment Tools for E-Assessment

Modern educational process at all levels requires the use of information technology devices for all component processes, teaching, learning, assessment, feedback collection and analysis etc. Higher education is probably the leading level in creating and providing new options for an effective educational process. E-learning, today widely used and available in many organizations, has become one of the biggest and very important challenge for teachers, students, and supporting teams. Any E-learning program has to have an assessment component available in any phase/stage of the teaching - learning process. Such component is called often E-assessment and is involving the use of information technology tools, primarily computers, to assess student's knowledge. The extent of teaching and learning can be measured through steps of assessment and feedback An assessment can help in certification and provide feedback to teachers. It can also provide a basis for evaluation of the different pedagogical methods and materials used in teaching and learning (Nazir and Iqbal, 2007). This paper is presenting an overview of some of the testing and assessment tools used for E-assessment in order to provide a view of the present developments in this domain looking to provide support as better as possible to any administrator/user of such assessment solutions.