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In the field of human assessment today there is a requirement to use computerised methods for the measurement of individual differences. For the computer to prove an effective tool in this area of application the job must be approached systematically. Simply producing a computer-based version of existing manual tasks, e.g. paper and pencil tests (PPTs), may not be as profitable as it could be for a variety of reasons. This practice may indeed make scoring easier and aid reliability of the tests but it does not ensure their continued validity; it does not advance theory (or take advantage of recent theoretical advances); nor does it fully exploit the vast potential of the computer as an aid to assessment.
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Dann, P.L. (1986). Programming for Computer-Controlled Tasks. In: Newstead, S.E., Irvine, S.H., Dann, P.L. (eds) Human Assessment: Cognition and Motivation. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4406-0_49
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