New Directions in Assessment

Assessment has a profound impact on classroom activities. It is also critical to any evaluative activity, such as evaluating the quality of an interface. We have designed computer-based assessment tasks for national tests [World Class Arena], have a general interest in e-assessment [Literature review of e-assessment , A Learning Integrated Assessment System] and we design tasks to help us understand reasoning from evidence – what is hard and easy, and what develops cognitively [Developing Effective Interfaces, Reasoning with Evidence - Development of a scale]