This in itself will encourage lots more people to do it. As people see it is successful, saves money and improves quality for others, they will want this benefit for themselves. Each of these reasons is enough to make some organizations make the switch. The combination makes the use of computers so compelling. In our knowledge based society, the need to assess is essential.
Computers are a natural tool for use in assessment.
Until recently, using them has been held back by the lack of availability of PCs and weak connections between them. With the rise of the Internet, these problems are disappearing, and the arguments for using computers to conduct assessments are compelling. 1998 will not be the year of the last paper test. Indeed there will probably be more paper tests delivered this year than computer ones. And some die-hard organizations will no doubt still be using paper tests in decades to come.