Impact of ICT on the assessment environment. Innovations through continuous improvement

Abstract

igital technology is already part of the practices related to test use as well as psychological and educational assessment; test design, data collection, and psychometric models have all evolved. Consequently, we face a number of challenges such as professional training, collaboration with other areas, expansion of the testing concept, and deliberation on ethical and legal issues. In this dynamic environment, the experience and knowledge related to psychological measurement give us the capacity and opportunity to integrate and expand the pillars on which good test use practices are based: reliability, validity, and ethical use. In this paper, we review the development of the information and communication technologies, showing their impact on psychological and educational assessment, with the aim of exposing some innovations that will mark the development of research and professional practice in the coming years.

Keywords

• ict
• technology
• test
• assessment.