What should the word ‘holistic’ imply?

BACK TO ALL BLOGS What should the word ‘holistic’ imply? by George MacBride Recent Holistic Assessment SIG seminars have prompted reflection on what we mean by the term ‘holistic’, a word often employed in education as a token of approval without clear definition of...

Educational Assessment in a Changing World

BACK TO ALL BLOGS Educational Assessment in a Changing World: Lessons Learned and the Path Ahead by Isabel Nisbet and Stuart Shaw What is the state of educational assessment a quarter of the way into the 21st century? What lessons have been learned from recent decades...

Artificial intelligence and the future of test scoring

BACK TO ALL BLOGS Artificial intelligence and the future of test scoring by Alex Scharaschkin When the topic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) comes up in relation to educational assessment it tends to be treated with extreme excitement or extreme suspicion, or...