New Trends in Digital Technology-Based Psychological and Educational Assessment

Area of Science:

• Psychometrics
• Educational Measurement
• Digital Technology in Assessment

Background:

• Digital technology is expanding the scope of psychological and educational measurement.
• Emerging assessment models leverage smartphones, social networks, and software developments.

Purpose of the Study:

• To review the benefits and limitations of emerging technology-based assessment methods.
• To explore the impact of digital advancements on psychological and educational measurement.

Main Methods:

• The study examines four types of technology-based assessments: ambulatory assessment, social networks, gamification, and forced-choice testing.
• Each assessment type's advantages and disadvantages are discussed.

Main Results:

• Technology-based assessments enhance ecological validity in measurement.
• These methods mitigate biases inherent in retrospective assessment.
• Recent developments are highly relevant to psychological and educational measurement.

Conclusions:

• New assessment approaches necessitate a multidisciplinary framework for psychometrics.
• Psychometrics must contribute expertise to the measurement of psychological variables in digital environments.
• The field faces challenges and debates integrating these novel assessment techniques.