Testing on the Internet: Issues, Challenges and Opportunities in the Field of Occupational Assessment

Computer-Based Testing and the Internet: Issues and Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 13-37

  Bartram, Dave ^a,b,c,d  

^a SHL Group Plc   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH PSYCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY   (United Kingdom)

^c Ergonomics Society ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d IAAP Division 2   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer based and web based testing; Good practice issues; Occupational assessment; Organisational field; Www technology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889458419     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470712993.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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