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eCom COO to Speak on Creating a Better Digital Assessment Journey at Beyond Multiple Choice 2026
How can organisations provide candidates with an accessible, inclusive and straightforward digital assessment experience, while maintaining confidence that their assessments are valid, reliable and defensible?
On 18th November 2026, Emma Dickson, eCom COO will be speaking at the e-Assessment Association's Beyond Multiple Choice 2026 virtual conference. In her session, Finding the Right Path: Creating a Better Digital Assessment Journey, Emma will introduce the Digital Assessment Journey Framework, a practical framework built around six key stages of the learner journey.
She'll look at the questions organisations delivering assessments should be asking at each stage, and how technology can help them meet candidates' needs, remove potential barriers and support the assessment process more effectively.
Posted 10 November 2026
What to Expect:
Emma will explore six key stages of the digital assessment journey:
- Register: Exploring candidates' first interactions with the assessment process, including finding the information they need, registering and understanding what is expected of them.
- Prepare: Considering what candidates need before an online assessment to feel informed, ready and confident about what will happen on the day.
- Access: Exploring how inclusive design, clear language, appropriate adjustments and technology, including AI, can remove barriers for candidates with different needs without compromising assessment validity or standards.
- Complete: Looking at the experience through to completion, ensuring candidates understand what they need to do and organisations can be confident that assessments are completed and recorded correctly.
- Recover: Considering how candidates can be supported when things don't go to plan, including how to handle unexpected technical or practical problems.
- Results & next steps: Exploring how results and certification are shared, accessed and verified, giving candidates clarity about their outcomes and organisations reliable evidence of achievement.
Why Attend:
If you're involved in designing, delivering or managing assessments, this session will give you a clear approach to reviewing your assessment journey, helping you ask the right questions and identify opportunities to improve the candidate experience.
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