Actionable e-Assessment As schools, districts, and states adopt online assessment the 1EdTech QTI 3.0 standard makes a transition to 100% online testing a reality. With QTI, traditionally underserved populations, such as students with disabilities, can test online for the first time while participating in the same assessments as the general education population, ensuring that education institutions remain in compliance with sections 504 and 508 of the Rehabilitation Act as required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Today, with 100% online assessment at the school, district, and state levels, we are at an inflection point where real innovation can occur as the limitations of paper testing, and multiple-choice, are replaced with technology-enhanced test items that more effectively measure critical thinking.
1EdTech Consortium is revolutionizing assessment by providing the technical specifications that enable high quality interoperable digital assessment, both summative and formative. These specifications, QTI® (Question & Test Interoperability®) and APIP® (Accessible Portable Item Protocol®) have been helping to lead the assessment industry forward for many years.
The goal of the 1EdTech work is not to increase the number of high-stakes assessments, but rather to improve assessment quality and integrate actionable assessment into the daily lives of faculty and students to help them achieve better learning.
Leading states, state consortia, and suppliers around the world are now using 1EdTech standards on a massive scale, realizing significant cost savings, supporting major advances in assessment functionality and improving the response time to receiving results compared to paper-based assessments.
State and institutional leaders have been discovering the power of interoperable digital assessment as being more effective and efficient. This has lead to broad adoption of 1EdTech standards. The collaboration of end-users within 1EdTech has focused efforts on their requirements to better support high-quality assessment, teaching, and learning. This end-user collaboration has also led to breakthrough support for accessibility in digital assessment, or APIP.
State Assessment Innovation Leadership Network
The State Assessment Innovation Leadership Network (ILN) is a collaborative group of state assessment and technology leaders working to make online assessment systems, resources, and tools more efficient and effective. Learn more.
Chair:
- Dale Cornelius, Maryland State Department of Education
