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在过去的五十年里,ETS花费了大量的时间、财力使其大规模的多项选择测验日臻完美。但到了八十年代后,一个明显的趋势是传统的测验方式已经无法跟上21世纪的教育形式需要。从此,ETS全力以赴地投入到旨在考试改革的技术开发中。ETS的研究学者Randy Bennett谈了目前以及将来,新技术对大规模标准化测验的影响。问:现在,几项重要的测验都过渡到了计算机化的测验,可不可以说,ETS从本质上重塑了标准化评定? 答:不能,当然不是。这些考试的计算机版本为考生提供了许多便利条件,如电话或电子邮件登记,信用卡结
Over the past 50 years, ETS has spent a lot of time, financial resources to make its large-scale multiple choice test perfection. However, after the 1980s, a clear trend is that the traditional test methods have failed to keep up with the educational needs of the 21st century. Since then, ETS has been devoting its energies to the technical development aimed at exam reform. Randy Bennett, ETS researcher, talks about the impact of new technologies on large-scale standardized tests, now and in the future. Q: Now that several important tests have been transitioned to computerized tests, is it possible to say that ETS essentially reshapes standardized tests? A: No, of course not. The computer version of these exams offers candidates many conveniences such as telephone or email registration, credit card bonding