Technology and Assessment

Together the words technology and assessment have different meaning for different people. Those whowork with educational or instructional technology take these words to mean assessing the impacts oftechnology on teaching and learning. Test developers and psychometricians however consider ways inwhich computer-based technologies can be used to enhance current approaches to student assessment.This book examines technology and assessment from both perspectives by examining past current andpromising methodologies and applications in both fields. The influences instructional uses of technologyand the increasing reliance on testing to gauge student and school performance have on one another arealso explored. The book concludes by describing an organizational structure that could bring instructionalapplications of technology and assessment practices into closer alignment.