Chapter Fourteen

GOING ONLINE WITH ASSESSMENT: Putting the Science of Assessment to the Test of Client Need and 21st Century Technologies

Eugene Burke, John Mahoney-Phillips, Wendy Bowler and Kate Downey

Setting the Scene and the Scope of This Contribution

With the growth in the Internet and the impact of associated technologies and business models on public and private organizations such as software-as-a-service (SAS) and cloud computing, it now seems inevitable that assessment and, specifically, testing would move online. If one looks back at the history of testing, testing and assessment have always been influenced by technology, whether that be the facility to mass produce test forms on paper (a factor that enabled testing programs as far ...

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