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The use of smarter technology in assessments,” Mr. Duncan said, “makes it possible to assess students by asking them to design products of experiments, to manipulate parameters, run tests and record data.

not only end-of-year tests similar to those in use now but also formative tests that teachers will administer several times a year to help guide instruction

In performance-based tasks, which are increasingly common in tests administered by the military and in other fields, students are given a problem — they could be told, for example, to pretend they are a mayor who needs to reduce a city’s pollution — and must sift through a portfolio of tools and write analytically about how they would use them to solve the problem.

Virtual patients for medical training are among the innovations being developed at the USC Institute for Creative Technologies. The military is using many of them to train troops.

South Korea, one of the world's highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum.

Preliminary results from a US military "digital tutor" project suggested the time needed to become an expert in information technology could be reduced from years to months, said the White House.

An unscrupulous government could relish the fact that everything a child learns is controllable through one, easily manipulated, digital portal.