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Chris Jellis – Research Matters, 2024
The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM), based in the North of England, recently celebrated its 40th birthday. Arising from an evaluation project at Newcastle University, and a subsequent move to Durham University, it rapidly grew in scope and influence, developing a series of highly regarded school assessments. For a relatively small…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing
Means, Barbara; Anderson, Kea – Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education, 2013
This report describes how big data and an evidence framework can align across five contexts of educational improvement. It explains that before working with big data, there is an important prerequisite: the proposed innovation should align with deeper learning objectives and should incorporate sound learning sciences principles. New curriculum…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Resources, Individualized Instruction
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Tucker, Bill – Educational Leadership, 2009
New technology-enabled assessments offer the potential to understand more than just whether a student answered a test question right or wrong. Using multiple forms of media that enable both visual and graphical representations, these assessments present complex, multistep problems for students to solve and collect detailed information about an…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Problem Solving, Student Characteristics, Information Technology
Murphy, Patricia A. – 1985
The videodisc, audiodisc, overlapping instruction, mapping, adaptive testing strategies, intricate instructional branching, and complex media selection models are common expectations for quality courseware today. A two team development structure, consisting of an instructional development team and a test development team, is proposed. This paper…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Assisted Testing, Courseware, Models
Stufflebeam, Daniel L. – 1985
A consortium of four institutions, based at Western Michigan University, was to plan a Research and Development Center on Student Testing, Evaluation, and Standards Setting. The four consortium sites are Boston College, the Dallas Independent School District, the University of Kansas, and Western Michigan University. This report is a final…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Consortia
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Hofmeister, Alan M.; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1994
This article describes an assessment approach for students with severe and multiple disabilities, SMH.PAL, that employs expert system technology. The system matches behavior topography with studies describing treatment approaches and then generates case-specific, annotated descriptions of potentially useful articles. It also models an approach to…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Bibliographic Databases, Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Testing