Publication Date:
2009-01-03
Description:
Large-scale testing of educational outcomes benefits already from technological applications that address logistics such as development, administration, and scoring of tests, as well as reporting of results. Innovative applications of technology also provide rich, authentic tasks that challenge the sorts of integrated knowledge, critical thinking, and problem solving seldom well addressed in paper-based tests. Such tasks can be used on both large-scale and classroom-based assessments. Balanced assessment systems can be developed that integrate curriculum-embedded, benchmark, and summative assessments across classroom, district, state, national, and international levels. We discuss here the potential of technology to launch a new era of integrated, learning-centered assessment systems.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Quellmalz, Edys S -- Pellegrino, James W -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2009 Jan 2;323(5910):75-9. doi: 10.1126/science.1168046.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉WestEd, 400 Seaport Court, Suite 222, Redwood City, CA 94063, USA. equellm@wested.org〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19119222" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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