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Thompson, Greg – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2017
This article critically considers the promise of computer adaptive testing (CAT) and digital data to provide better and quicker data that will improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of schooling. In particular, it uses the case of the Australian NAPLAN test that will become an online, adaptive test from 2016. The article argues that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Adaptive Testing, National Competency Tests
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O'Keeffe, Cormac – E-Learning and Digital Media, 2017
International Large Scale Assessments have been producing data about educational attainment for over 60 years. More recently however, these assessments as tests have become digitally and computationally complex and increasingly rely on the calculative work performed by algorithms. In this article I first consider the coordination of relations…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, International Assessment