Optimizing Technological Advances in Assessing What Matters

We live in an exciting time when rapid technological advances allow us to combine insights from digital learning environments and innovative digital assessments of important learning outcomes. At ETS Research Institute , fairness and validity are essential to guiding the design of these digital learning and assessment environments to ensure they are used appropriately.

Our goal as researchers is to explore design principles, capabilities, and methods to inform the development of the next generation of interactive digital assessments that provide valid and fair insights in secure and cost-efficient ways.

By leveraging multiple data sources and AI advances, we aim to assess selected high-value constructs and support the implementation of groundbreaking new paradigms, such as testless and personalized assessments.

We ignite digital assessment innovation by reimagining the following concepts:

• Make innovative digital, simulation-based assessments cost-efficient by designing principles and prototypes in the context of generative AI.
• Design tasks for interpretable process data and automated scoring by developing task design principles and optimized prototypes.
• Develop innovations supporting testless assessments, including new methodologies, capabilities, prototypes, and use cases.
• Create the next generation of capabilities to generate multiple detectors that can be embedded in naturalistic settings and provide data that can be aggregated and used as evidence to support assessment claims.
• Assess skills by developing methodologies and automated tools for process indicators that support the assessment of computer science and coding, statistical analysis, collaboration, and engineering design, among others.

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This third article in a five-part series focuses on the development and launch of a new ETS research agenda.