Vice Presidential Invited Session: Technology-Enhanced Items in Large-Scale Assessments

Session Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This session focuses on technology enhanced item templates and prototypes that promise to measure cognitive skills and are primed for scale-up in a large-scale high stakes environment. Presenters will demonstrate approaches to the task of designing innovative items and rubrics which can provide a deeper and more dynamic assessment experience, as well as serve one or more uses such as differentiation of students, application of complex skills, or skill/knowledge acquisition and growth. They will illustrate how such tasks and scoring models are differentiated from traditional selected response tasks and the cognitive/evidence models developed to support their use. A discussant will identify the potential consequences of such items when delivered via technology for various intended purposes ranging from accountability to instruction.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Measurement and Research Methodology

Chair

• Wayne J. Camara, ACT, Inc.

Papers

• From Scoopulas to Scalability: Technology-Enhanced Items Past and Present - Ellen Strain-Seymour, Pearson

• Using Innovative Assessment to Measure Complex Competencies and Model Good Teaching and Learning Practice - Randy E. Bennett, Educational Testing Service

• Dynamic Tasks That Use Novel Response Spaces and Multilayered, Multisemiotic Techniques - Rebecca Kopriva, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Leveraging Evidence-Centered Design in Game-Based and Other Digital Assessments - Jeremy Roschelle, SRI International; Terry P. Vendlinski, SRI International

Discussant

• Stephen G. Sireci, University of Massachusetts - Amherst