Special feature: advanced technologies in educational assessment

Advanced Educational Technologies - Promise and Puzzlement

Enormous sums of money and human effort have gone into educational technologies over the past decade. Yet nagging questions surface as to whether this tremendous investment produces advantageous results. While we intuitively feel that the influence of technology should be substantial, little sound guidance exists as to what is effective and why or how to use it. We seem to have cleared several ...

Information Technologies: Opportunities for Advancing Educational Assessment

Assessment of Advanced Technologies for Loss Estimation

This document provides an assessment of the current state of advanced airborne and spaceborne remote sensing and ground-based technologies applicable to the analysis of seismic risk and vulnerability of buildings and lifeline systems. Continuous Global Positioning System (GPS) ground deformation monitoring and seismological networks provide critical measurements for understanding the earthquake...

assessment of deep word knowledge in elementary and advanced iranian efl learners: a comparison of selective and productive wat tasks

testing plays a vital role in any language teaching program. it allows teachers and stakeholders, including program administrators, parents, admissions officers and prospective employers to be assured that the learners are progressing according to an accepted standard (douglas, 2010). the problems currently facing language testers have both practical and theoretical implications but the first i...

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If I were in charge of treating obesity in the United States, I’d spend all the money working with children like this boy. He’s Latino and lives on the USMexico border, across the Rio Grande from Mexico. His mother was a patient of ours; she’s diabetic, going blind, and having a leg amputated. The boy too could be at risk of becoming diabetic one day; that’s what’s happening to this population....