Technology and Testing
Edys S. Quellmalz1* and
James W. Pellegrino2
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.
2 Learning Sciences Research Institute, MC 057, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1007 West Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607–7137, USA.
* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: equellm{at}wested.org
