Case Study: DEPP uses Open Assessment Technologies’ TAO to capture student problem-solving data

Leverage Portable Custom Interactions to Foster the Link Between Teaching and Learning

DEPP, the Assessment, Forecasting and Performance Directorate at the French Ministry of Education, needed better ways to measure problem-solving in math and science. Traditional assessments mostly showed final answers, making it hard to understand how students arrived at those answers. Open Assessment Technologies provided TAO, including Portable Custom Interactions, to support more interactive digital assessment items.

With Open Assessment Technologies and TAO, DEPP, the Luxembourg Ministry of Education, Vretta, and Wiquid created multi-step PCI items for the CEDRE assessments. In May 2016, DEPP introduced three math and two science PCIs to a nationwide standardized test given to 8,000 9th grade students, then expanded the effort in spring 2017 to 12 science PCIs for 10,000 students and 25 math PCIs for 11,000 students. The log data captured from these items helped educators analyze student strategies and gain deeper insight into how students approach problem-solving.