“Which advantages do you think Assessment through computer technology has over traditional assessment?”

As we know the computer allow teachers to create assessments with the tools that internet and multimedia provide, like, video, audio, images, color, text, etc. With this the fourth skills can be tested with more benefits and facilities, without monotony, with organization and following the required structures. This kind of assessment has the ability to measure time, record information, and present information in a variety of ways, assess to different types of information and inputs, encourage learner’s own strategies and can make use of language rules.

Chapelle, Carol A. (2006) Assessing Language through Computer Technology. Iowa State University. Cambridge University Press.