Not so long ago, the examination season was one of the most dreaded periods in the academic calendar for Alias Gitau, the Examination Registrar at the Nyeri National Polytechnic and his team.
Delivering credible assessments seems like a straight forward and easy task but not for Examiners who had to spend numerous hours personally ensuring that each of the more than 8400 assessment tools that the institution prepares per academic year meet the highest standards. For years, the process of generating Continuous Assessment Tests (formative assessment) and End of Term Exanimations (summative assessment) at the polytechnic was manual.
The only digital process was type-setting and printing out the tools which doesn't require a lot of time.
For an assessment to be conducted, a panel comprising internal trainers and industry experts would have to be constituted.
