CHALLENGES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY-BASED ASSESSMENT: POSSIBILITIES IN SCIENCE EDUCATION

摘要

Nowadays, your smartphone offers workout programs for you if you decide to lose weight after you enter a few important parameters (e.g. height, weight, age and gender) and your goal. As you do sport, your smartwatch continuously monitors your time, calories burnt, pulse rate, heart rate etc. More accurate, personalized workout programs are provided for you based on these data. In parallel, technology can contribute to personalizing education by even predicting what types of tasks and activities would be most beneficial for different students. Educational assessment has been among the most dynamically developing areas in education since the turn of the millennium. In this period of time, large-scale international assessments (e.g. OECD PISA and IEA TIMSS ) have become regularly administered by the world's leading test centres, resulting in a huge improvement of data transfer technology and data analysis methods. Two decades ago, paper-based assessments were the most widespread and accepted means of assessment, but due to rapid development, the tools for paper-based assessments represented serious constraints on further improvements. A qualitative change and a new kind of assessment had to be made to meet the learning and assessment needs of the 21st century.