Editorial: E-assessment and its role and possibility in facilitating future teaching and learning

Along with the development of information communication technology, e-assessment technology has gradually come into maturation and been widely applied to teaching practices and educational studies. Digital assessment has the advantage of providing examinees with instant feedback, reducing teacher's work load, assisting digital learning, and developing student's ability to do self-assessment. Other advantages of this kind of assessment are reduction of paper consumption, quick collection and analyzes of data, easier manipulation with test item resources, etc.