Remote Performance Assessment: Need Of The Hour!

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced traditional classrooms and in-person pedagogy to move to a virtual setting. Seeing no end in sight, institutions were forced to also conduct the examinations remotely. Not being able to follow the same question pattern as that in a pen and paper-based exam, the exam itself had to be innovatively structured to aptly assess a candidate. In scenarios such as a job interview as well, when it is not possible to judge a person based on body language (as that cannot be any seen on a Zoom meeting!) we have swiftly moved to technology to take over and perform that task for us. The technology used known as performance assessment technology is not an innovation that has been birthed in the lockdown, but one that has found a much larger customer base just recently.