Onscreen Marking: A Useful Evaluation Tool for Tertiary Education in the Digital Era

Abstract

This paper discusses a useful evaluation tool, termed onscreen marking, which is taking over evaluation of learners in the 21st century in Nigeria educational system. When evaluating student written assignments in business education, onscreen marking has several advantages over the 
conventional method (marking hardcopies of the assignments). These benefits include reduced waste of paper and ink, no shipping charges, quick turnaround times, and timely feedback from the students. There are other difficulties as well, some of which are covered in this paper: lack of training, sluggish Internet speeds, server system outages, and academic reluctance to change. It is imperative that academics adopt a new way of thinking in order to evaluate the rapidly increasing amount and lightning-fast dissemination of knowledge in the digital era.