The use of technology-enhanced items (TEIs) in assessment has gained immense popularity in recent years due to the numerous advantages these item types offer. Through the use of these interactive questions, student engagement is increased substantially, especially in...
Managing a content development project involves many steps and depends on a reliable team to support the project goal. Often, a new project starts out as a fabulous idea, birthed by people passionate about the end result. Once the idea has been formed, however,...
Adaptive Assessment in Practice Let’s look at two types of adaptive testing. The first type, item adaptive, adjusts each future item based on an average estimated ability, called the ability estimate. This type of adaptive testing has many possible uses. For...
Today, according to a school district’s curriculum, you have two standards to teach. The first is a content standard: “Find the roots, real and imaginary, of a quadratic equation.” The second is one of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical...
For students with learning disabilities, learning technologies offer opportunities to capitalize on strengths while bypassing areas of difficulty. As a simple example, a student who struggles with reading may learn more effectively with audio or video content. More...
The learning community increasingly is embracing technology-enhanced items (TEI) for assessment, in coordination with organizations like PARCC and SBAC. TEIs open up a wide range of question types, such as drag-and-drop, drop-down menus, graph plotting, text...
