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Scant attention has been paid to the issue of conducting assessment in technology-equipped settings. Often, when assessments have been conducted, standardized achievement tests, constructed to ask questions that may have no relevance for technology-based learning, are used. A wide variety of assessment procedures are available but caution must be taken that the use of such measures is relevant for the situation.

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Marshall, G. Exploring Assessment. Education and Information Technologies 4, 311–327 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009696327264

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