The potential positive impacts of the Test Tool are the following:

• Increased Efficiency - Using the Test Tool, teachers spend less time creating tests, allowing them to focus their time and energies in other areas. Because test questions can be reused, creating multiple tests requires less time.
• Improved Test Quality - The Test Tool's test question database abilities allows teachers to create multiple tests that test students for subject knowledge comprehensively. In addition, teachers with large numbers of students can create tests of higher quality than are typical of Scantron tests by asking multiple types of questions rather than just multiple choice and true or false questions.
• Decreased Resource Expenditures - By using existing computer infrastructure and doing do in an entirely digital manner, the Test Tool requires little or no additional equipment expenditure and replaces the large amounts of paper, copier toner, and other consumables that are used in traditional test administration.
• Improved Accessability - By administering the test on standard computers, the opportunity for people with accessibility needs to take the test is much larger. People with visual impairments can use reading software to have the test dictated to them, people with fine motor skill impairments can use voice recognition software to input their answers, and people with medical issues confining them to their home or to a hospital could take the test remotely.
• Computer Integration - Because tests are administered on computers, they can contain computer dependant questions requiring the use of, for example, a programming language. Rather than the teacher manually checking each code segment, the Test Tool can run an outside, user-supplied script that will check the answer and return the resulting score.
• Security and Integrity - The Test Tool improves on the integrity of traditional test administration methods in that it allows for the possibility of different tests for each student, reducing the likelihood of students copying each other if they can see each other's screens.
• Accuracy - The Test Tool can remove the human-error element of grading tests. This means that tests can be scored much more accurately and will avoid the chace that correct questions are marked incorrect and vice versa.

There are few possible negative effects of the Test Tool, and potentially none if it is implemented and deployed correctly. Negative effects may include:

• Downtime - Like any computer program, the Test Tool can be prone to failure due to software bugs or hardware failure. This would involve lost class time as equipment is restarted or repaired. Such downtime can be minimized with the Test Tool's ability to print hard copies of tests, allowing the test administrator to use traditional test administration methods as a backup option.
• Training Time - As with any new method of doing things, some training time may be required. Teachers may have to be trained in the use of the Test Tool to administer tests and students may have to spend time learning how to take a test using the Test Tool. Ideally, the Test Tool's interface is intuitive enough that significant training time will not be required.
• Equipment Costs - If there is no existing system for the Test Tool to be utilized effectively (i.e. a computer lab setting with computers for each student with adequate networking), additional equipment expeditures will be required. This can become very expensive if there is no existing system at all.
• Drawing - The students taking the test may have a much harder time drawing on the computer than using traditional pen and paper methods. Also, students who have limited typing skills may sped much longer typing in their answers than they would spend writing them on paper.
• Security - If the network is compromised (i.e. by a packet sniffer or other tool), the security of the data transmitted over the network by the Test Tool could be altered. If the teacher's password is discovered, a person could change test scores and cause other damage, such as deleting tests. This risk can be lowered through good security practices such as changing passwords, using good passwords, etc.

As long as no sensitive personal information is used by the test administration, there should be no negative legal impacts beyond those of traditional test taking methods.