Aims and Objectives

Provide members with professional support by...

  • creating and sustaining a vibrant e-community, with suitable web services including a website;
  • publishing a high quality quarterly newsletter, designed to monitor trends in e-assessment and to document uptake/progress;
  • organising an annual conference;
  • publishing an up-to-date e-journal, which will present new ideas, case studies and current practice; and
  • establishing a body of independent experts and consultants willing to provide help, support and guidance;

Work collaboratively with members and national organisations to create and communicate the positive contribution that technologies can make to assessment by…

  • publishing and presenting ‘think pieces’;
  • opening a dialogue with policy makers on assessment thinking;
  • establishing current good practice;
  • monitoring emerging new approaches;
  • organising a network of leading thinkers to promote discussion and publication;
  • seeking appropriate funding for research; and
  • publishing the outcomes of that research.

Produce a statement of good practice for commercial vendors by…

  • collecting and explaining the relevance of existing standards, codes and published guidance;
  • bringing a significant group together to modify existing standards where needed;
  • developing and keeping up-to-date a good practice guide for teachers and providers alike;
  • creating a kite mark in this area; and
  • publishing the eAA standards on the eAA website.