Gavin Cooney
Abstract
Stakeholders in digital assessments have requirements and expectations that technology implementations do not always meet. This is the "Assessment Excellence Gap." This article explains why digital assessment is important and focuses on two particular aspects with a call to action to make assessments more inclusive and to write questions that go beyond recall when creating assessments.
Index Terms
- Closing the Assessment Excellence Gap: Why digital assessments should go beyond recall and be more inclusive: Advances in eAssessment (Special Series)
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