Traditional exam papers will be phased out in the next decade, one teaching expert believes.

David Hanson of the Independent Association of Prep Schools has said that people in maths and English teaching jobs will need to be prepared for the shift to online tests by 2023, as by then, there will be a new generation of teachers who have completely embraced technology as they have grown up with it.

Mr Hanson will say that in ten years' time, maths, English and science will still be viewed as the core subjects of the curriculum, but technology will be visible at every turn, with assessments carried out in adaptive online tests. He explained that pupils could sit exams on computers which analyse their answers and ability before adjusting the difficulty of the questions accordingly.

His predictions seem to be backed by the UK's exam boards, with Simon Lebus from OCR expecting a migration to e-assessment in some exams, although some subjects may take longer than others to adapt.

Rod Bristow, president of Pearson which runs the Edexcel board, said the process is well underway with "nearly 900,000 onscreen tests in schools and colleges".

It is thought that online assessment is not only more secure, but could help to eradicate human error associated with the mistakes made by individual markers.

AQA said its own feedback from tests into on-screen exams was "really positive with many teachers and students finding them a really good experience."

"Today's students are digital natives and everything else they do in their day-to-day lives is on-screen, so sitting an exam with pen and paper probably feels quite unnatural," a spokesman said.

If you are looking for a teaching job, do you feel comfortable with the idea of online assessments? Is it a shift you have encountered in your own training? If you already working in a school, how much work needs to be done before whole year groups are ready to take important exams online?