The benefits to online computer adaptive testing are tremendous. Not only does a teacher get instant feedback, but targeted skill-based data is collected and organized as soon as a student completes his or her test. Teachers can create differentiated groups to target skills that are lacking and groups of different abilities can also be created to help foster rigorous learning.
Also students are ask about half as many question in a CAT. See IACAT.org for a growing bibliography on the latest CAT research.
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