Recent Applications of Computer Technology to School Testing Programs
Elinor M. Woods · Review of Educational Research · 1970
This review contains a summary of the principal applications of computer technology to school testing programs reported during the five-year period ending December 1968. Readers are referred to Cooley and Hummel (1969) for a comprehensive review of current efforts to apply computer systems techniques to guidance. There are three journals which have regular computer sections on computer applications in education and psychology. An excellent source for programs developed and applied to test analyses is the section included in the spring and autumn issues of Educational and Psychological Measurement. The computer section in Behavioral Science published bimonthly, although it mainly focuses on programs developed for research purposes, also reports on programs developed which are appropriate to psychometric procedures. The Nation's Schools includes a computer section which focuses on school data-processing applications. Other periodicals devoted exclusively to computer applications in education are as follows: AEDS Journal, AEDS Monitor, Automated Education Handbook and Newsletter, Data Processing for Education, Journal of Data Education, and Journal of Educational Data Processing.