The system, which includes both summative assessments for accountability purposes and optional interim assessments for instructional purposes,
uses computer adaptive testing technologies to the greatest extent possible to provide meaningful feedback and actionable data that teachers and other educators can use to help students succeed.
Not exact matches
Computer adaptive testing is used to test recruits to the U.S. military, for licensing nurses and computer technicians, for entrance tests to graduate school, and for a popular placement test used by community colleges — but not for academic testing in all but a handful of K - 12
Computer adaptive testing is
used to
test recruits to the U.S. military, for licensing nurses and
computer technicians, for entrance tests to graduate school, and for a popular placement test used by community colleges — but not for academic testing in all but a handful of K - 12
computer technicians, for entrance
tests to graduate school, and for a popular placement
test used by community colleges — but not for academic
testing in all but a handful of K - 12 schools.
Though the intentions behind this decision were honorable — to keep states from setting lower expectations for and administering easier
tests to low achievers — it has curbed the
use of
computer -
adaptive testing and other strategies that can accurately and validly detect student growth at the high end.
Absent further amending, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) will include a necessary and long - overdue section provision that allows states to
use computer -
adaptive tests to assess students on content above their current grade level.
Allow for more differentiation in administering assessments, including removing time limits, increased
use of
computer -
adaptive tests and performance tasks.
It is a
computer -
adaptive test used to screen students three times per year in the areas of early literacy, reading, and math.
Students take a customized
test using a
computer adaptive format: questions get harder when students answer correctly and easier when they answer incorrectly, allowing students to better demonstrate what they know.
During the last 12 weeks of the school year, Smarter Balanced administers a summative assessment consisting of a
computer -
adaptive test and a set of non-
adaptive performance tasks that require students to
use multiple Common Core skills.
The new
tests use computer adaptive technology to provide more accurate information about individual student performance.
Over the next few years, the state will be moving from WKCE to new
computer -
adaptive tests that will have similar features to MAP and also be
used to hold schools accountable.
ED also released regulations related to other assessment provisions in ESSA, including
use of
computer -
adaptive tests, flexibility in high school assessments, and
tests for special populations of students.
To be fair,
using the new
adaptive testing format (I've
used it in technical exams for
computer programming and networking) will take several years before there's any real confidence that the
adaptive testing can be compared to standard
test scores.
For the first time, the exams
use a technology called
computer adaptive testing to tailor the difficulty of questions for each student based on his or her previous response.
Areas of expertise include: assessment design;
computer adaptive testing (CAT); assessment accommodations;
uses of
tests; mathematics, and English language arts / literacy.
Because Smarter Balanced
uses a
computer adaptive format, its technology requirements, such as
computer devices needed and Internet bandwidth, can mean that the new
test will twice as long to administer compared to the traditional MEAP
test.
Computer -
adaptive exams can be hard to study for
using simple paper practice
tests.
HumRRO has developed criteria for
use with static
test forms and with
computer adaptive tests.