Personal Preface RAMA - The National Authority for
{"Image DocumentName": "Personal Preface RAMA - The National Authority for", "Image ImageDescription": "I began my professional career as a psychometrician and test-developer of the entrance exams for the Hebrew University in Israel. Later on I headed the National Institute for Testing and Evaluation (NITE), which is a professional body for measurement and assessment (Israeli ETS) responsible for admission exams to the Israeli universities. During this period I focused mainly on testing and measurement. From there I moved to the Open University to serve as a member of the academic staff and to establish the Center for Integrating Technology in Learning (SHOHAM). I was very much involved in the integration of the most advanced technology of the time (satellites, internet) into processes of distance learning and instruction. The main lesson for me there was that technology is only an enabler and that the main object is the pedagogy and the management of learning. My years at the research division at ETS \u2013 the Mecca of measurement and assessment \u2013 expanded my knowledge in the field of measurement and assessment. I mainly learned there the importance of measurement as a facilitator of learning. With the above notion I returned back to Israel to establish RAMA (the National Institute for Measurement and Evaluation in Education) as a professional body which advocates assessment in the service of learning . Here I learned first-hand about the importance of the integration of formative assessment in promoting instruction and learning and at the same time, the dangers of high-stakes national and international testing. Thus, what I would like to talk about here today is the systemic and pedagogical opportunities related to the integration of technologies into large scale assessments (LSA) in general and international large scale assessments (ILSA) in particular, and the yet unresolved challenges that await us in the years to come. RAMA - The National Authority for. Measurement and Evaluation in Education.", "Image XResolution": "37", "Image YResolution": "37", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Centimeter", "Image Software": "SlidePlayer", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Centered"}