When summative assessment is mentioned, the first thought that comes to mind is the “final exam”: a high stakes assessment, given at the end of a course or unit, intended to measure the learner’s comprehension of the course material. This impression, however, is incomplete as what truly makes an assessment summative is not the test […]
Ask whether AI can write a test question and the answer is plainly yes. Hand a model a curriculum point and a target difficulty and it returns a clean, professional-looking multiple-choice item in seconds. The question worth arguing about is whether that item belongs anywhere near a high-stakes exam. In high-stakes assessment, an item has […]
An assessment can be well designed, carefully administered, and psychometrically clean. The question predictive validity asks is whether any of that matters once the testing session is over: Do the scores tell you something useful about what happens next? Predictive validity is the degree to which assessment scores forecast a future outcome. It requires 3 […]
As remote and hybrid testing environments expand, assessment leaders are under increasing pressure to maintain exam integrity across digital platforms. Traditional approaches such as live proctoring, on-site supervision and surveillance-based monitoring still play an important role in secure testing, but many of these methods are reactive by design and can introduce friction for candidates and […]
Creating high-quality assessments is a time-consuming process, but the rapid growth of AI offers new ways to streamline question development. Generative AI can produce questions in seconds, adapt them to different topics and ability levels, and create large banks of items. However, speed doesn’t necessarily mean quality. AI-generated questions can contain factual errors or other […]
Assessment developers are tasked not only with creating tools to measure knowledge and understanding, but also with ensuring those tools measure what they’re intended to measure. In other words, they need validity evidence to support the interpretation and use of their scores. But understanding the different sources of validity evidence and how to gather them […]