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ABSTRACT Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology has pervaded the sector of education offering numerous educational tools, which educators are called upon to incorporate in the teaching process, reinforcing their role towards acquisition on the part of their students. Computer–Based Testing, a major field of this state–of–the–art technology, aims at transforming conventional testing and offering us new means for student assessment. Given the major importance of student assessment all the way through the educational process, Computer–Based Testing can resolve a great number of problems involved in conventional assessment, reinforce its outcomes and, finally, offer new prospects to teachers and students. The subject matter of the current study is the application and assessment of Computer–Based Testing, via its pilot application at a Junior High School unit during the computer science course. The tools used for this particular study – in order to help us draw reliable, safe and useful conclusions – were: the application of Computer–Based Testing for a sufficient amount of time during the various types of student assessment, the primary research with questionnaires in order to record the students’ opinions before and after the Computer–Based Testing application, as well as the Teacher Observation Sheet for each Computer–Based Testing session. Due to the research methodology selected, certain issues came to light: the role that the Computer–Based Testing can play in the field of student assessment, the tools required for such testing, the relevant tasks that the educators have to perform, as well as the potential and the restrictions of this state–of –the–art technology. The findings of the research led the researcher to concrete and useful conclusions concerning the improvement of the learning process and the support educators can have at their disposal as student assessors.