Simulations provide opportunities for people to learn and to develop skills for situations that
are expensive, time-consuming, or dangerous. Careful design can support their learning by …

International large-scale assessments such as PISA or PIAAC have started to provide public
or scientific use files for log data; that is, events, event-related attributes and timestamps of …

Early in 2005, Phil Harris, Executive Director of the Association of Educational
Communications and Technology, approached Mike Spector and asked if he would like to …

Several key developments challenge the field of educational measurement today: demands
for tests at larger scales with higher stakes, an improved understanding of how people …

A framework for evaluation and use of automated scoring of constructed‐response tasks is
provided that entails both evaluation of automated scoring as well as guidelines for …

Researchers have shown in multiple studies that simulations and games can be effective
and powerful tools for learning and instruction (cf. Mitchell & Savill-Smith, 2004; Kirriemuir & …

In this paper, we provide an overview of psychometric procedures and guidelines
Educational Testing Service (ETS) uses to evaluate automated essay scoring for operational …

As computer-based testing (CBT) becomes a dominant, if not the dominant, medium for
delivering assessments, interest in the potential of innovative items has grown. Innovative …

Section 1 provides background on game-based assessment: its nature, potential use cases,
the design challenge, and some concepts from game design. Section 2 walks through the …

Simulations hold great promise for medical education, but not all simulations are effective,
and reviews of simulation-based medical education research indicate that most evaluations …