Abstract This paper discusses the unprecedented challenges and possible directions in which the field of educational assessment is going after the outbreak of COVID‐19. Though the pandemic leads to a lot of pressure related to instruction, learning, and assessment, it also provides opportunities that are likely to require changes to the current theories and practices as well as the assumptions that are no longer justified. It is hoped that the challenges will motivate our field and the instructional experts to work closely together with the learning and instruction process so that assessment will be better integrated and can provide data‐driven insights related to the sequence and content of instruction based on the diagnosis of students' strengths and weaknesses from assessment data. We expect that the integration of assessment in learning and instruction will definitely exert significant positive impact on learning outcomes. We believe the field will become aware of the assessment issues that teaching at a distance presents and will come up with innovative solutions to the many emerging problems when the world of instruction and learning undergoes significant changes from social distancing. This paper provides comments, and predictions about what the challenges and directions in educational assessment will be.

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冠状病毒给评估带来了什么？2020 年及未来几年教育评估面临前所未有的挑战

摘要 本文讨论了 COVID-19 爆发后教育评估领域面临的前所未有的挑战和可能的方向。尽管大流行给教学、学习和评估带来了很大的压力，但它也提供了可能需要改变当前理论和实践以及不再合理的假设的机会。希望这些挑战将激励我们的领域和教学专家在学习和教学过程中密切合作，以便更好地整合评估，并可以根据诊断提供与教学顺序和内容相关的数据驱动的见解从评估数据中了解学生的优势和劣势。我们预计，评估与学习和教学的整合必将对学习成果产生重大的积极影响。我们相信，当教学和学习世界因社会疏远而发生重大变化时，该领域将意识到远程教学所带来的评估问题，并将为许多新出现的问题提出创新的解决方案。本文就教育评估的挑战和方向提供了评论和预测。我们相信，当教学和学习世界因社会疏远而发生重大变化时，该领域将意识到远程教学所带来的评估问题，并将为许多新出现的问题提出创新的解决方案。本文就教育评估的挑战和方向提供了评论和预测。我们相信，当教学世界因社会疏远而发生重大变化时，该领域将意识到远程教学所带来的评估问题，并将为许多新出现的问题提出创新的解决方案。本文就教育评估的挑战和方向提供了评论和预测。