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A Review of Models for Computer-Based Testing. Research Report 2011-12
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Luecht, Richard M.; Sireci, Stephen G. – College Board, 2011
Over the past four decades, there has been incremental growth in computer-based testing (CBT) as a viable alternative to paper-and-pencil testing. However, the transition to CBT is neither easy nor inexpensive. As Drasgow, Luecht, and Bennett (2006) noted, many design engineering, test development, operations/logistics, and psychometric changes…
Descriptors: College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Technology, Evaluation Methods
A Useful Study Aid or Jazzed-Up Novelty? Some Are Calling Test-Prep Software on Cell Phones a Democratizing Equalizer, Others Say It Increases the Gap between the Haves and the Have-Nots
Lum, Lydia – Black Issues in Higher Education, 2005
Carl Washburn wondered how to push his teen-age son into studying for the SAT. After all, it's well-known that prepared students tend to score higher than those who aren't. Then Washburn realized his son's cell phone could prove a compatible study buddy. So he and others at his company developed a cell phone application that offers sample SAT…
Descriptors: Drills (Practice), Educational Technology, Computer Software, Telecommunications
Computer as a Tool in SAT Preparation.
Coffin, Gregory C. – 1987
Two experimental programs, designed to increase Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores of inner city, low achieving students by using computer-assisted SAT preparation, produced differing results. Forty volunteers from a nearby high school were assigned to two groups of 20 each--one experimental and one control group. The first program provided six…
Descriptors: Aptitude Tests, College Entrance Examinations, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software