| Author(s): | Tucker, B. |
| Title: | Beyond the bubble: Technology and the future of student assessment |
| Source: | http://www.educationsector.org/sites/default/fi... |
| Date: | 2009 |
| Organization: | Education Sector |
| Short Description: | Technology has the potential to do more than just make our current approach to testing more efficient. A growing number of testing and learning experts argue that technology can dramatically improve assessment—and teaching and learning. |
| Annotation: | States have slowly begun to adapt new technologies, such as the Internet, to student testing. However, even the most technologically advanced states have done little except replace the conventional paper-based, multiple-choice, fill-in-the-bubble tests with computerized versions of the same. Overall, the types of skills tests measure, and what the test results can tell us, have remained essentially the same.
Technology, however, has the potential to do more than just make our current approach to testing more efficient. A growing number of testing and learning experts argue that technology can dramatically improve assessment—and teaching and learning. Several new research projects are demonstrating how information technology can both deepen and broaden assessment practices in elementary and secondary education, by assessing more comprehensively and by assessing new skills and concepts. All of which can strengthen both national standardized tests like the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and classroom-based tests meant to help teachers improve their instruction.
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