Chief advisor Lilla Voss, The Ministry of Education, Denmark

Use of computers in both lower and upper secondary final, written exams has been allowed in Danish education since the early 90-ies. In upper secondary school use of computers is a right, and it is the student who
decides whether he or she wants to use computers.(almost 100% do)

The models have varied. In some cases the school provided the computers. In other cases the student used their own computer. In som cases both possibilities could be chosen. The overall picture is, that there have been
very few problems. Today it is very unusual for students not to use computers in written exams - especially in Danish and foreign languages.

With the increase of the number of computers in schools there has also been a series of experiments with ICT based exams - that are exams where the assignment cannot be solved without the use of ICT - that could for
instance be cases based on cd-roms - or ressources from the internet..

Another type of ict-based exams are exams, where the students assignment both is delivered by ICT and is marked directly via the computer. These - and oral final exams - where the use of computers in the preparation period
are allowed - are not so widespread. And there are a lot of experiments to be done before these more advanced ICT based exams completely will replace traditional examinations, based on paper, handed out in the examination
hall.