The optimization of examination conditions is a central topic for universities. In this context, electronic assessments are increasingly being used instead of traditional face-to-face examinations, a trend that has been additionally driven by the Corona crisis. As part of the project, the project partners are currently conducting over 75,000 e-exams. However, the upward trend in e-assessment formats is affecting all higher education institutions in Germany. E-assessments pose a variety of didactic, diagnostic and technical challenges to universities in general and to the project partners in particular.

In the project NOVA:ea, the implementation of student-friendly e-assessments is therefore being implemented, scientifically accompanied and evaluated.

NOVA:ea aims to promote academic education in all biographical phases with student-friendly e-assessments. It places student diversity at the center of the didactic, technical and diagnostic design of e-assessments. The guiding principle is to link student-centered innovation with technological advancement, which is used as open source for e-assessment systems at more than 230 universities.

Within the framework of the project, the FernUniversität in Hagen is pursuing three central goals:

• Classification, development, and criteria-driven selection of task formats, as well as the development of project-wide guidelines for assessment diagnostics and error analysis.
• Empirical consideration of the role of student diversity for the didactic, technical, and psychometric design and optimization of competency-oriented and diversity-appropriate e-assessments based on the Dynexite e-assessment system.
• Identification and consideration of the determinants of e-assessment acceptance among teachers and students as well as the design and implementation of measures to increase acceptance.