An Overview of Innovative Computer-Based Testing

Sebastiaan de Klerk

doi:10.3990/3.9789036533744.ch13

An Overview of Innovative Computer-Based Testing

Sebastiaan de Klerk

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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Abstract

Driven by the technological revolution, computer-based testing (CBT) has witnessed an explosive rise the last decades, in both psychological and educational assessment. Many paper-and-pencil tests now have a computer-based equivalent. Innovations in CBT are almost innumerable, and innovative and new CBTs continue to emerge on a very regular basis. Innovations in CBT may best be described along a continuum of several dimensions. Parshall, Spray, Kalohn, and Davey (2002) describe five innovation dimensions in which CBTs can differ in their level of innovativeness: item format, response action, media inclusion, level of interactivity, and scoring method. This chapter provides a detailed description of the five innovation dimensions, including case examples. Furthermore, an overview of opportunities, risks, and future research will be given

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Psychometrics in Practice at RCEC
Editors	Theo J.H.M. Eggen, Bernard P. Veldkamp
Publisher	RCEC
Pages	151-161
ISBN (Print)	9789036533744
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3990/3.9789036533744.ch13
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

Computer-based testing
Future research
Dimensions of innovation
Opportunities and risks

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