Exploring teachers' perceptions toward online assessment : perspectives and challenges

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The present research paper attempts at investigating online assessment at the department of English, Batna2 university during Covid-19.

Focus was on teachers' perceptions of online assessment and the challenges that make its implementation a hard task.

To this end, the descriptive approach was adopted, and a questionnaire has been addressed to the teachers of English at the department of English, Batna2 University.

The obtained results have shown some optimistic views hold by some teachers toward online assessment and many negative attitudes shown by many others.

These are mainly attributed to the difficulties of effectively implementing online assessment.

Thus, it is concluded that unless the basic requirements of online assessment are met, continuing with it would be difficult