ICT Initiatives in Educational Examination Management-A Review

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Abstract:In this paper, we present a critical review of the existing research progress on ICT initiative in educational examination management system. The study analyses the research papers published in leading journals, conference proceedings, articles, government web portals, and reports which categorize the existing publications according to type of issues investigated. The review reveal that majority of the papers, articles have examined issues related with limitations of the traditional examination system, examination malpractices, paper leakage, advantages of online examination system, security issues, challenges of integrating ICT in schools, programming tools used to develop online examination system, application of cloud computing in examination management and drawbacks in the existing e-examination system.