Article Details
  • Published Online:
    December  2025
  • Product Name:
    The IUP Journal of English Studies
  • Product Type:
    Article
  • Product Code:
    IJES091225
  • DOI:
    10.71329/IUPJES/2025.20.4.111-129
  • Author Name:
    Ashma Shamail
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    YES
  • Subject/Domain:
    Arts and Humanities
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  • Pages:
    111-129
Volume 20, Issue 4, October-December 2025
Online Assessment Strategies in English Literature: Challenges and Adaptations in the Covid-19 Era
Abstract

Online assessment, as a key construct, has garnered a prominent place in the educational arena. The paper examines online assessments in an EFL context, focusing on the adaptations involved in developing new assessment tasks for English literature courses while transitioning from a traditional classroom-based platform to an online teachinglearning platform during the Covid-19 pandemic. Designing assessment tasks derived from educators’ practical teaching experiences in new learning environments requires innovative changes in pedagogy. The present paper highlights adaptations that emerged in response to critical challenges and explores the new assessment strategies improvised at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) in Saudi Arabia during the pandemic.

Introduction

‘Don’t ask me, ask China’, was the title given by one of my students while composing her essay for Writing For Specific Purposes course at the beginning of the academic year 2021-2022 (September-June).