Applications in Educational Assessment: Future Technologies

摘要

The paper, takes a look at the current situation with respect to currentunderstanding of knowledge development, new approaches to assessment, and the technologies that may enhance new assessment practices. It takes up the following topics in turn: (1) Assumptions that underlie the approach to new forms of assessment; (2) Current understanding of learning and knowledge development; (3) New approaches to assessment; (4) Computer-based nd visual technologies that may contribute to new assessment methods; (5) Scenarios concerning the ways technology-enhanced assessment may function in the social and organizational context of schooling.