信息技术（IT）的力量和能力的增长导致越来越多地使用IT来在广泛的教育和其他环境中提供、评分和记录测试和评估的响应。如果使用得当，IT交付提供了速度和效率、更好的反馈以及有效性和可靠性的改进的优势，但其使用的增加引发了关于IT交付评估的安全性和公平性的问题，并导致了广泛的不同实践。 ISO/IEC 23988:2007提供了一种方法 表明评估的进行和评分是公平的，不会使某些候选人群体处于不利地位，例如那些不懂信息技术的人；表明总结性评估是在安全条件下进行的，并且是候选人的真实工作；表明评估的有效性不会因其交付而受到损害；提供评估安全性的证据，可提交给监管和资助组织（包括教育和培训、工业或金融服务的监管机构）；建立一致的交付规则方法，这应该有利于与一个以上评估分销商打交道的评估中心；为“现成”评估软件的购买者提供质量保证。 ISO/IEC 23988:2007给出了使用IT向候选人提供评估以及记录和评分他们的回答的建议。它的范围从三个方面来定义:它适用的评估类型、它适用的评估“生命周期”的阶段以及它对具体信息技术方面的关注。

Growth in the power and capabilities of information technology (IT) has led to the increasing use of IT to deliver, score and record responses of tests and assessments in a wide range of educational and other contexts. Suitably used, IT delivery offers advantages of speed and efficiency, better feedback and improvements in validity and reliability, but its increased use has raised issues about the security and fairness of IT-delivered assessments, as well as resulting in a wide range of different practices. ISO/IEC 23988:2007 provides a means of

• showing that the delivery and scoring of the assessment are fair and do not disadvantage some groups of candidates, for example those who are not IT literate;
• showing that a summative assessment has been conducted under secure conditions and is the authentic work of the candidate;
• showing that the validity of the assessment is not compromised by IT delivery;
• providing evidence of the security of the assessment, which can be presented to regulatory and funding organizations (including regulatory bodies in education and training, in industry or in financial services);
• establishing a consistent approach to the regulations for delivery, which should be of benefit to assessment centres who deal with more than one assessment distributer;
• giving an assurance of quality to purchasers of "off-the-shelf" assessment software.

ISO/IEC 23988:2007 gives recommendations on the use of IT to deliver assessments to candidates and to record and score their responses. Its scope is defined in terms of three dimensions: the types of assessment to which it applies, the stages of the assessment "life cycle" to which it applies and its focus on specifically IT aspects.