New technologies in psychological assessment. The example of computer-based collaborative problem solving assessment.
Katarina Krkovic, Anita Pásztor-Kovács, Gyöngyvér Molnár, Samuel Greiff · Open Repository and Bibliography (University of Luxembourg) · 2014
Computer-based assessment is a relatively new but exponentially growing field in psychological assessment. The advantages are numerous – flexibility of application, possibility to use video and audio material, construction of dynamic tasks, and the availability of log-file data. Moreover, computers allow us to capture the whole process of solving one task. Since collaborative problem solving (ColPS) is a skill, which is becoming increasingly important in 21 century, constructing an appropriate assessment tool for it is a high priority in research at the moment. Computer-based assessment of ColPS appears to be a logical solution in order to capture the entire process of collaboration. However, the construction of computer-based ColPS assessment comes with many questions, which need to be discussed Can we use computer-agents instead of real humans to simulate the collaboration and how the social presence influences test-taker`s behavior? How can we assess communication? Can chat substitute a real-life communication? How can we properly use data obtained from log-files? These and some other questions are addressed in this paper. New technologies in psychological assessment: The example of computerbased collaborative problem solving assessment